The Velveteen Rabbit begins performances November 16 at off-Broadway’s DR2 Theatre. Starring Kristin Parker, Jim Stanek and John Curcuru, the new play based on the beloved ch…
Maximo and Bartolo, the so-called Aztec Children were two microcephalic unfortunates from St. Salvator, Â hired by P.T. Barnum starting in 1848-49 as representatives of an ancient, vanishe…
Columbus Children's Theatre CCT presents MUSICAL THEATRE MASTER CLASS with Broadway's David Ayers and Angela Gaylor, Monday, December 17, 2012, 430-630pm Ages 10-15 and 7-930pm Ages 16-Adult.
REVIEW: There's much to marvel at in this musical version of the classic Dr. Seuss book. Reed Sigmund as the Grinch is a green meanie.
Aspiring to great heights, Milwaukee's First Stage Children's Theater's production of 'Big, the Musical' hits the mark with stellar cast and top notch production values. (read more....)
"Marvin Makes Music," a children's book written by the late composer Marvin Hamlisch, is released by Dial Press Nov. 8.
David Wood's adaptation of Michelle Magorian's classic children's novel GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM, starring Oliver Ford Davies as Mister Tom, comes to London after an acclaimed UK tour. Come on o…
A judgment call for parents: When is it appropriate to introduce children to challenging cultural material " whether it is sexy or profane, creepy or violent, or simply adult and intense?
Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis ("Moonstruck," The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore) will star in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children for Sha…
This month, we screen Marcel Carné's backstage masterpiece "Children of Paradise"; Groucho Marx in The Mikado and Alfred Drake & Barbara Cook in Yeomen of the Guard;…
Tony nominee Alfred Molina has the power to make audiences cry with his powerful performances, but now he’s extended that talent to tormenting children. In a new Funny or Die video, Mo…
Alfred Molina may be known for his dramatic roles like his Tony-nominated turn in RED on Broadway and, most recently, in LA - but in a new video from FunnyOrDie.com, Molina takes on the role…
The Grinch descended upon Madison Square Garden to kick off a charity book drive in support of the Garden of Dreams Foundation.The furry green creature read Dr. Seuss' famed children's book,…
"War is just business", even in the twenty-first century. As Blackeyed Theatre brings Brecht's anti-war play forward some 400 years, it's obvious that his challenges are just as relevant tod…
Director Sean Graney channels his inner kid to captivate both children and parents. Bringing the whimsy, Joanna Iwanicka (puppets/prop designer) and Alison Siple (costume designer) clad the…
Last summer's riots have tarnished the reputation of a generation. Three months afterwards, almost half of the 2,000 adults surveyed by children's charity Barnardo's believed children in the…
Chicago Children's Theatre is nomadic no longer, kicking off its sixth season with "Harold and the Purple Crayon" in its new, permanent home, the Ruth Page Center for the Arts at 1016 N. Dea…
Wendy MacLeod's sensitive comic drama "The Water Children" has been updated and includes references to the likes of John Boehner and Rick Santorum.
The Children's Health Fund, which provides pediatric mobile care to underserved children, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a benefit concert held Oct. 4 at Radio City Music Hall.
Legacies and echoes of the Rwandan slaughter of the 1990s are seen and heard in "Children of Killers," a play by Katori Hall.
Katori Hall writes historical fictions rooted in the conflicts of race, including her Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop, which imagined the night before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. w…
Katori Hall's 2011 play takes on the difficult task of theatricalizing the haunting national trauma of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda by considering the children of Hutu militia born after thei…
Childrens Theatre Company CTC has long been the only theatre in the U.S.A. granted permission to develop and produce original productions based on the work of Dr. Seuss. CTC first brought Th…
Numerous celebrities were enlisted to lend their talents in a new video for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.Quite naturally, they're covering the classic Beatles' song, "Hey Jude." Amo…
Mysteries dangle like baited fishhooks right from the get-go in the spotty "Red Dog Howls." As the drama begins Michael, a writer, gazes into the audience and gravely declares: "Th…