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Ace shows Billy the America of 1917, and the story of John Robert Anderson, a World War I fighter pilot who falls in love with and marries Ruth, th ...

This delightful musical version of Joseph Robinette's enchanting play adds a sparkling melodic dimension to the tales of Beatrix Potter and her own fa ...

Mark Twain's novel provides an especially good look at traditional U.S. values and Tom's attempts to circumvent them. All the familiar characters a ...

"A winner" "a musical gem" "one of the most appealing productions for young audiences I've seen," says the reviewer at the Chicago Sun-Times. Her coll ...

This is the story of a boy who shrinks to the size of an ant because it's much more fun than dealing with his baby sister. Alex's parents and teacher ...

Alexander has just received some really bad news from his parents. His dad has taken a job in a city a thousand miles away, which means that he and hi ...

A musical buoyant with fun and wonder, alive with thought and feeling, that can be enjoyed by all ages. The folk-rock-pop music carries the audience t ...

Throughout a career that spanned four decades, Oscar Hammerstein II used the theatre to promote human understanding. He continually tackled themes ...

Into a square little town in a square little state rides a guitar playing roustabout who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swive ...

This new dramatization captures the charm and excitement of L.M. Montgomery's enduring classic about an orphan girl, Anne Shirley, from her first enco ...

This sparkling new musical further enhances the enduring story of Anne Shirley, the orphan girl whom Mark Twain called "the most delightful child of f ...

But the determined kids talk the sheriff into a two-week reprieve, just enough time to produce their own show and prove their mettle. The son of a ...

Shirley Jackson has written a modern fairy tale in which Hansel and Gretel are "problem children" (i.e. brats) and the witch is a charming old girl wi ...

Big Tush, Little Tush is the story of five-year-old Molly Benson, who is convinced that all her problems in life stem from the fact that her ...

It's Blues Birthday and she's celebrating it with her best friends Joe, Tickety Tock, Slippery Soap, Magenta, Periwinkle...and YOU! Featuring brand ...

BLUE'S CLUES LIVE! THE MOST SPECTACULAR PLACE begins when the curtain greets and welcomes the audience into the wonderful world of Theatre. On stag ...

He wanted a puppy. They gave him a piano. Gregory has his heart set on a dalmatian puppy for his birthday, but Pops, an impulsive music lover, buys hi ...

This rollicking version of the classic tale opens with the villagers preparing for the springtime chores as the entire cast sings "Spring Is Just Arou ...

Harvey Cheyne, a spoiled 12-year-old boy who falls off his father's ocean liner in the North Atlantic in 1928. Rescued by Manuel, a Portuguese fish ...

Iowa farm girl Cathy Scruggs gets an assignment from her teacher to write a term project about Jeanne d'Arc. While working on her paper, the lonely, a ...

The Children's Literature Association named this "the best American children's book of the past two hundred years," and Joseph Robinette, working with ...

This exciting, new musical version of Charlotte's Web brings a new dimension to E.B. White's beloved classic. With music and lyrics by Charles Strouse ...

Itීs Christmas Eve, and Mrs. Frump, the director of the Peaceful Valley Orphanage, is planning what she believes will be the most special Christ ...

Reviews across the country herald this new version—"only Peter Pan matches it for natural hilarity. The two are alike in understanding what children w ...

Full of wit, warmth, and charm, this Cinderella contains a beautiful original score and a few unexpected twists that make for a funny and lovable s ...

The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance.

As if Gladys, Cinderella's fairy godmother, doesn't have enough problems, what is she going to do with Alice's white rabbit, Harold (for that is the w ...

What will happen to Cinderella at the ball game? That's the surprising climactic question in this contemporary Latin-American Cinderella musical, w ...

This satire on English hypocrisy revolves around two lovebirds from different backgrounds - a lowly sailor and his upper-class lass - who aren't aw ...

Dora's Pirate Adventure. Dora, her best buddy Boots the Monkey and the rest of their friends embark on an exciting trip to Treasure Island. The aud ...

This new play version of the delightful meeting of two of literature's most famous young ladies unfolds when a young man puts off a book report till t ...

Two of literature's most unforgettable young ladies get mixed up together in a magical meeting that produces hilarious results as the audience becomes ...

Dot and Tot of Merryland is the delightful musical journey of two children who are swept away in a boat to the enchanted Valleys of Merryland ...

In the witty, enigmatic "Nothing Can Be Something," the lyricist matches the famous ability of author Hans Christian Andersen to combine sweetness, hu ...

Mr. Aesop and his colorful collection of factory parts񗝄including Straucey, the Story Starter; Pluto, the Plot Plotter; Wadsworth, the Word Wor ...

Based on the internationally popular book (a true story) by artist/poet Flavia Weedn, this is a story of family, a story of coming of age, a story abo ...

When teenager Ren and his Mum relocate from Chicago to a small rural town, he is not prepared for the rigorous local laws. Years ago, following a ...

"You got to have goals and dreams. You got to find love in your hearts!" With these words, and the help of a magic quilt, five urban students are take ...

When Froggie buckled on his sword to go courting Miss Mouse, he thought it looked very dashing. He had no idea that he'd have to use the sword to resc ...

"Maide to order—you'll love it!" was the Denver Post headline of the premiere. Robin Hood is up in a tree, peeking out between leaves. Maide Marian en ...

Who wouldn't want to party on Go-Go Beach? It's full of beautiful girls, cool surfer dueds, and one runaway Hollywood starlet.  In the ...

Set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School - this musical follows the story of Danny, Sandy, The Pink Ladies and The Burger Palace Boys as they na ...

This is the magic brought by merry-hearted young Greensleeves, a vagabond singer and storyteller, to the sad kingdom of Princess Miranda and her two y ...

This charming play is a contemporary fairy tale which successfully blends fantasy and reality and introduces a delightfully new American character int ...

Gretl and Hans Brinker live with their kind mother and their ailing father who has been reduced to a childlike state after a fall from a dike. The chi ...

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! You've got an elementary school program to do, but you haven't got a show that exactly meets your needs? Well, ...

Raspanti has extracted a beautiful and moving one-act play based on the poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague. O ...

This new musical version of Celeste Raspanti’s widely produced play brings an added dimension to the story of the children of Terezin, a ghetto under ...

I Will Sing Life is a dynamic and highly theatrical collage of creative writing by and interviews with young people who attend the Hole in th ...

John David Wellgood and Mary Helen Merriman, both painfully naive, find themselves stranded near a medieval castle on the outskirts of Steubenville, O ...

Blast off to a stellar performance with In Space, the latest collaborative effort from Chaitin and Stevens-Estabrook. The team that brought y ...

The last thing 17-year-old Amy wants to do on a Thursday afternoon is babysit Adam, a bratty 8-year-old boy (may also be a girl) who has forsaken his ...

Based on the life of John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed chronicles Johnny's adventures back in the early 1800s as he travels through Pennsylvania, Ohio an ...

The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph, his father's favorite son ...

Joseph, is a boy blessed with prophetic dreams and the favourite son in the family but is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers when his father ...

While visiting her aunt, Rudyard Kipling's young daughter, Elsie, receives a recently published copy of her father's newest book. Elsie and a group of ...

Five of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, including How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin and Ho ...

This sparkling musical revue traces the events of a day in the lives of seven kids, revealing their joys, wishes, dreams and disappointments. In a ser ...

Fifty minutes of entertainment for children of all ages. In the Kingdom of Gamin, King Cole discovers that horses, hovels, houses and even his Fiddler ...

This winner of the first Cunningham Commission Award for Youth Theatre is an inspiring musical about the magic of storytelling. One winter's day, Hans ...

Early on a September morning the villagers of Sleepy Hollow await their new schoolmaster. When Ichabod finally arrives, his priggish correctness casts ...

The Likes of Us is the story of the life of Dr Thomas Barnardo, a man who was evangelical, entrepreneurial and philanthropic, and whose crusade to ...

You'll love following the Little Mermaid, who in this brand-new version is a strong-willed but endearing innocent, on her first journey to the Top of ...

A musical play of Moses's life up to the crossing of the Red Sea. Lots of scope for clowning, juggling, stilt-walking, etc.  Humorous sketches ...

"Be careful, Red Riding Hood," warns Mother, "as you go by the swamp. Don't stumble. Don't slip. Don't trip. Don't fall in the water." Red Riding Hood ...

“And Little Red Riding Hood lived happily ever after” is where Little Red Riding Hood and the Magic Dragon begins. But Little Red isn’t reall ...

Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel is brought to glorious musical life in this tale of the indomitable March girls of Concord, Massachusetts. < ...

Stop the presses! Help is on the way for the lovelorn! This heart-stopping and affectionate tribute to the classic romance comic books of the 1940' ...

Serena, the ugliest duck in the barnyard, yearns to be a great singing diva, and she overcomes hilarious avian trials and tribulations in this wack ...

"It's hard to be a princess when wishes don't come true." So bemoans the young, spoiled Princess Alicia, and we are launched into a delightful musical ...

Tested and perfected before many audiences, this enchanting show has been acclaimed both by children and by critics including a selection by the Los A ...

This innovative show features songs and sketches as characters move through comic and serious contemporary fables celebrating childhood. Young audienc ...

Free for a time from the demands of an adult world, six youngsters create their own magic machine to explore a world of their own making, returning at ...

A seemingly plain clay pot magically transports Cucha, a selfish and lonely girl, from her town of Zapotoco, Mexico, to a mysterious jungle filled ...

Acceptance of differences is the theme of this musical for young audiences. It tells the story of Melvin, a refugee pelican who is seeking a new commu ...

This journey into a child's imagination begins with that perennial classroom question, "What did you do on your vacation?" Not one to be upstaged by h ...

The first and most famous story of the Chronicles of Narnia has become a musical presentation of this unique, enchanted world filled with creatures ...

The authors of this popular musical, based on the C.S. Lewis classic story, have written a new shorter version that retains most of the spirited and s ...

When Grandpa, prompted by a plain little gray bird, begins to tell his grandchildren, Elizabeth and Jonathan, about the emperor's nightingale, his bac ...

A mythical adventure for all time and all ages with gods, goddesses, monsters, storms, shipwrecks—obstacles at every turn. The goddess, Athena, tells ...

This fresh and imaginative musical tells the story of a little boy named Prince Ty who does not feel important. He sets out to prove his bravery by ch ...

"On time! On time! You've got to be on time," or you'll miss the opportunity to make stars of your performers. On Time includes ten "time-ori ...

If you thought you knew the story of  "The Princess and the Pea" you may be in for a walloping surprise! Did you know, for instance, that Prin ...

Mother Goose sadly announces to her children that they must leave their home—a large, comfortable shoe—and move to an old sneaker "across the tracks." ...

This new musical version of the widely produced play adds a new melodic dimension to the delightful dilemma of Mother Goose and her children as they t ...

This musical, based on Jack and the Beanstalk, tells the story of Jacqueline, a young girl growing up on a farm. The characters that Jacqueli ...

This exciting musical is packed with songs and crammed with exotic creatures in this wonderful Land of Oz. Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, is brought to l ...

Armadillos, roadrunners, prairie dogs and coyotes join in song and dance with the world's first cowboys (and cowgirl!) in this toe-tapping, tall-tale ...

Franics of Assisi is famous for his love of animals, particularly birds, though any number of the dolly birds of his day pursued him as a rich teen ...

Two young lookalikes, Tom Canty, a poor lad from Pudding Lane, a London slum, and Prince Edward, son of the notorious Henry VIII of England, exchange ...

When Prince Edward changes clothes with Tom Canty, the beggar boy, no one in the audience will have difficulty in telling the actors apart, but throug ...

This bright, new musical follows the classic story of two infants born at the same time but brought up in vastly different environments. These babies, ...

A Promise Is a Promise, a very special story adapted from an Inuit legend, is a lyrical and powerfully imagistic piece. Allashua is a 10-year-old Inui ...

Rafferty Rescues the Moon tells the story of Rafferty, a young Irish boy who sets out to rescue the Moon, which has been swallowed by the ter ...

This clever version of the classic tale is set in the city in the 1920s. Red is entrusted for the very first time to deliver a basket of goodies to he ...

After suggesting that Jeff and Cassie are spending too much time on TV and video games, Gramps shares some of the old ways of entertainment by telling ...

The Red Rose is an innovative, entertaining and emotionally relevant treatment of the Beauty and the Beast theme for modern audiences of all ...

The story deals with the waif Karen who has no shoes. Through the machinations of an Old Soldier she is led to secure red shoes by deceit. When she pu ...

Based on the first book of the acclaimed Redwall series, this adventure-packed musical tells the tale of a courageous mouse, Matthias, and ho ...

A boy who "reads too much" encounters a dragon who is most "undragony." The boy overcomes his prejudices about dragons when he discovers that this one ...

No facile answers are offered and no easy way out is shown. The view, presented throughout the script, is the right of young people to challenge t ...

Can Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a young mongoose, save the world—or at least his minute section of it? Rikki is the courageous mongoose who must defend the gard ...

Promote environmental awareness with the new, bilingual musical, The River of Birds! Using a beautiful blend of Spanish and English languages, the pla ...

One hour (optional intermission); 2 acts Welcome to the world of the RUGRATS, Nickelodeon's classic hit animated series about life f ...

Rumpelstiltskin, the last of his kind, dances alone in the darkness before a leaping fire, casting a giant shadow on a craggy mountain face as he rela ...

The kingdom of Wipple is in big trouble. Inflation has destroyed the economy—there's no more gold! An ambitious miller claims that his "miraculous" da ...

This joyous story about the growth and blossoming of the earth and the human spirit is a garden of delight for the ears and the imagination. Mary and ...

This Secret Garden, the original British musical stage adaptation of the famous story, focuses especially on the children's characters and Ma ...

The Woolcott children are holy terrors. Everyone says so. How Esther Woolcott, only 21 herself, and the second wife of Captain Woolcott manages the ...

Sinbad is a Merchant Hero, different in many ways from Western folk and mythic heroes. There are clear cross-cultural similarities in some of his adve ...

The ship of the dreaded French pirate Orange Marmalade is anchored just outside New Orleans. The fearful townspeople stay behind locked doors, and bus ...

Sleeping Beauty, the way the Brothers Grimm wrote it, neglected to explain the how—how, for example, a satisfactory prince managed to arrive at just t ...

An off-Broadway hit in New York where it played an astonishingly long run for a children's musical, this show has the double advantage of action enoug ...

Rolly is a typical fifth-grader whose boring summer vacation turns into a terrific adventure when he stumbles on the past and finds himself in the Ag ...

The critic for the Atlanta Constitution headlined her review with the word "Magical." "Magic," in a sense, is part of the plot which concerns a boy wh ...

This family musical contains a zany, wisecracking Mirror who will only answer if spoken to in rhyme, as well as a whole court full of funny and bubbli ...

Margaret Anne is a young girl who has never won anything in her life and suddenly finds herself as a participant in the upcoming "Miss Spell Contest" ...

A one-act musical version of the old folk tale with a good lesson about trust and ingenuity. Three starving soldiers, cut off from their company, ente ...

A grumpy, overworked New Yorker who resolves to spend New Year's Eve along in his apartment when an unexpected visitor brings some much-needed chee ...

This is the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary New York family. All the charm, wisdom and joy of the E.B ...

This musical version of E.B. White's classic tale about a little mouse born into a normal New York family further enhances the charming story of a det ...

The townspeople have deserted in the middle of the night. The curse of the evil fairy is about to come to pass. Today is the day the kingdom will fall ...

In the heart of a magical swamp lives a crusty prince-turned-frog who wants to become human again but, as he sings it, "No one wants to kiss a toad." ...

Experience the funny, touching and complicated universe of adoption, as related through the stories of kids and teens. Ideal for Theatre Fo ...

The classic "grass is always greener" story of two mice—Jessica Lorraine, the town mouse, and Jessie Lee, the country mouse—comes to life in this live ...

The magic of this play comes from the way the entire audience creates the storm at sea, a mosquito-infested jungle and a treasure cave filled with eer ...

This exciting retelling of the familiar fairy tale is full of mirth and melody as Goldilocks is brought to court to face the charges of breaking and e ...

In rhyme, mime and mirth, this exciting comedy examines the familiar fairy tale from three points of view: the traditional, the Bears', then Goldilock ...

Charles Strouse, the composer of Bye, Bye Birdie and Applause! Has written another score񗝄we think it's his best!񗝄wit ...

A king with 12 unmarried daughters and a mystery to solve! How do the 12 lovely princesses wear out their shoes night after night when they are secure ...

Follow the heartwarming and comic adventures of Zelda the swan, who thinks she's a duck when she's not. Unwanted by the duck family who hatched her eg ...

"What is real?" the Velveteen Rabbit asked the Skin Horse. "Does it hurt?" Often humorous to the point of absurdity, at times profound without being h ...

"There are two ways to be real," the Skin Horse says. "The first is when you are real to one special child, and the second is when you are real to the ...

This breezy musical deals with spirited youngsters from various ethnic and religious backgrounds who reside in the same neighborhood. There are 14 pal ...

In the forest, everyone is looking for a friend. Wolfie laments his lack of friends, saying that whenever he meets anyone he likes, he always tries to ...

In the words of the Chicago Sun-Times critic, this show is "one of the wisest and most delightful productions to grace a Chicago stage thi ...

The famous English gentlemen, Mr. Toad of Toad Hall, sees his first motor car and promptly falls uncontrollably in love with motoring, so he buys a ca ...

The art of storytelling is at the heart of this classical—style children's show in which three young people set out to find the Bird of Light and save ...

Yearbook is a new musical about high school students today. Based on interviews with nearly 100 students, Yearbook presents, through scenes and songs, ...

In this modern musical version of the tale of Rumpelstiltskin, you will meet a cast of characters including a group of wacky singing servants and, of ...