North Texas Performing Arts

Name: North Texas Performing Arts
Address: 1040 Mustang Dr, Grapevine, TX, 76051, US
Telephone: +1 972-422-2575
Price range: $50 - $459

5 yrs in business · <20 reviewsReview counts are estimates based on public online reviews (e.g. Google, Yelp, etc.) · Ages 5–18

Best for a K–12 kid who wants real stage time, with summer productions that cast everyone who enrolls.

TheaterActingMusical TheaterFilm & TV Acting

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Group & privateIndoorFall campsWinter campsSummer campsSession-basedTryout requiredYear-round

(972) 422-2575

customerservice@ntpa.org

1040 Mustang Dr, Grapevine, TX 76051

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$50 - $459

After-school classes are $249 per class (one hour a week for 7 weeks).
Summer camps: half-day (morning or afternoon) $299, full-day production $459, full-day Film Camp $425; two-week productions vary by show.
Fall/winter break camps run $50 (half day) to $90 (full day).
A $99 new-student audition-prep special covers a 3-lesson private package.
Discounts are heavily promoted: 40% off a first class, camp, or production for new students (ages 5–18), plus early-bird and 10% sibling discounts.

Year-round youth theatre for grades K–12 at NTPA's Grapevine location (formerly NTPA – Southlake), which is moving from its theatre on North Carroll Avenue in Southlake to a new home at 1040 Mustang Drive in Grapevine. After-school classes run in 7-week sessions on weekday late afternoons (elementary productions, an "Act It Out!" acting class, and a Musical Theatre 1 offered only at this location), grouped by grade; the autumn session meets the weeks of September 14 – November 2, with showcases and final classes in that last week. Summer brings weekly camps June–July (half-day Art & Drama for ages 5–8 and Center Stage for 7–11, full-day production camps for 9–14, a grades 3–6 Film Studios camp, two-week productions, and musical-theatre intensives — see the Camp fields). Fall and winter school-break camps run on off days. Private lessons (acting, voice, dance) are open from age 10, with audition-prep lessons from age 7. Two-week summer productions are open-cast — everyone who enrolls is cast — while the theatre's other productions audition.

Schedule

7 Summer Camps Concluded

Jun 1 – Jul 31 · Art & Drama (weekly)Concluded · 9am–12pm · ages 5–8
Jun 1 – Jul 31 · Center Stage (weekly)Concluded · 1pm–4pm · ages 7–11
Jun 1 – Jul 31 · Full Day Production (weekly)Concluded · 9am–4pm · ages 9–14
Jun 15–19 · Film Camp (Film Studios)Concluded · 9am–3pm
Jul 20–24 · Movie Magic Camp (Film Studios)Concluded · 9am–3pm
Jun 15–19 · Broadway Bound intensiveConcluded · 1pm–4pm
Jul 27–31 · Ready, Set... Audition! intensiveConcluded · 1pm–4pm

Cost · Summer 2026 (concluded): half-day camps $299, full-day production $459, full-day Film Camp $425; two-week productions vary by show. Fall/winter break Creativity Camps $50 (half day) / $90 (full day), with Grapevine a participating location. New-student 40% off (NEW2NTPA); Super Early Bird 40% (BIRD40), Early Bird 30% (EARLY30), and 10% sibling discounts apply.

Details

Summer camps run weekly across June and July (the 2026 season ran at the Southlake campus, before the move to Grapevine). Art & Drama (ages 5–8, 9AM–12PM) runs each week of the season; Center Stage (ages 7–11, 1–4PM) runs weekly apart from a July 13–17 break; Full Day Production (ages 9–14, 9AM–4PM) runs weekly. Film Studios Camps (grades 3–6), Two-Week Productions (grades K–12) and Summer Intensives (grades 4–7, 1–4PM) run on set weeks within the season. Every camp opens with a half-hour parent orientation and closes with a showcase; full-day campers bring a sack lunch. Fall and winter school-break camps also run each year. Most recently published: the 2026 summer season, weekly June 1 – July 31; the Aug 3–7 week is marked “no camp” at Southlake.

Our take

NTPA – Grapevine, formerly NTPA – Southlake, is the Tarrant County branch of North Texas Performing Arts, a nonprofit youth theatre organization, and the thing that defines it is right there in how it casts its summer work: in the two-week summer productions, everyone who enrolls is cast rather than auditioned out. That "open-cast" model shapes the whole culture — it's built for kids who want to be in a real production regardless of experience, and it leans on a stated leadership-values framework (NTPA calls it the "Ten Characters" — teamwork, responsibility, respect, discipline, and the like) as much as on the shows themselves.

It opened in 2021 as NTPA's fifth location, in a theatre on North Carroll Avenue in Southlake, and is now moving to a new home in Grapevine that NTPA says will let it stage more productions each year; this fall's shows are already on the Grapevine mainstage. The programming is genuinely year-round: 7-week after-school classes grouped by grade, a full summer camp slate, two-week productions where everyone enrolled is cast, and a Film Studios camp for kids who'd rather write, shoot, and edit a short than perform on stage. If your child wants a program that puts competition first, or gates entry by audition, this isn't that; if you want a lot of stage time in a structured youth-theatre setting, it fits.

Local Tips

The program is moving from its North Carroll Avenue theatre in Southlake to a new home at 1040 Mustang Drive in Grapevine, and its fall productions are already on the Grapevine mainstage, so check which building a class or show is in before you drive over. A few practical notes:

After-school classes run in 7-week sessions on weekday late afternoons and fill by grade band, so check which class matches your child's grade.
Summer camps run weekly from June through July, split by age into half-day (younger) and full-day (older) options, with a separate grades 3–6 film camp and two-week productions.
Registration runs through NTPA's ASAP Connected portal, and the organization pushes a standing new-student discount (40% off a first class, camp, or production) plus early-bird and sibling discounts, so it's worth timing a first enrollment around those.
Enrolment and billing route through NTPA's shared customer-service line and email, which the site says covers all locations and troupes. The location does have its own Managing Director contact, listed on NTPA's staff page, if you need the campus directly rather than the office.

Credentials

North Texas Performing Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit governed by a board, and this location (formerly NTPA – Southlake) is supported by a volunteer parent management board. NTPA's published child-safety standard is its STARS program, which the organization describes as requiring background checks and safety training for those working with its students. Its artistic staff page names a Managing Director for this location, Jamie Lynn Moreland, though not a single resident artistic director, so families evaluating the program should ask which staff lead the specific class or production they're considering; the operational standard the organization markets is the STARS youth-protection framework applied across its locations.

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