Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury LTL American Place Theatre Tuesday, September 15 at 12:00 Recommended for grades 8 & up This classic American novel presents a frightening vision of the future: firemen don’t put out fires - they start them in order to burn books.

Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing Two Beans Productions Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 10AM and 12:30PM Recommended for grades 3-5 Ten-year-old Peter Hatcher’s life would be sweet if it weren’t for Fudge, his toddler terror of a brother.   Two Beans Productions presents a hilarious play about sibling rivalry based on Judy Blume’s book.

Freedom Train TheatreworksUSA Friday, Jan. 15 at 10AM and 12:30PM Recommended for grades 3-9 Harriet Tubman, the intrepid conductor of the Underground Railroad, comes to life in an extraordinary production, with traditional music of the period. One of Theatreworks’ biggest hits!

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs LTL American Place Theatre Tuesday, January 19 at 12:00 Recommended for grades 8 & up Former slave Harriet Jacobs’ powerful and moving experiences during the seven years she spent hiding in "The Loophole."

Click, Clack, Moo TheatreworksUSA Friday, Jan. 22 at 10AM and 12:30PM Recommended for grades preK-4 All day long Farmer Brown hears “click clack moo, clickety clackety moo...” The cows are typing and protesting their working conditions! A hilariously “moo-ving” new musical about compromise, based on the award-winning book.

Rumplestiltskin Lille Kartofler Figurentheater Monday, Jan. 25 at 10AM and 12:30PM Recommended for grades preK-2 Matthias Kuchta returns to our stage with a new performance, Rumplestiltskin. The puppets, soft, nearly life-sized textile figures, will play on the floor in front of and, sometimes, between the children.

MotherSON Jeffrey Solomon Friday, Jan. 29 at 11AM Recommended for grades 10 & up When the son comes out, the mother goes in! Jeffrey Solomon’s award-winning solo play depicts his mother’s poignant, and often hilarious, journey out of the closet as the parent of a gay son.

500 Clown Frankenstein 500 Clown Friday, Feb. 5 at 11AM Recommended for grades 8 & up 500 Clown Frankenstein: three clowns embark on a madcap journey to construct Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory.  Comic mayhem takes a sharp turn to a devastating climax when one clown is forced to play the role of the creature and suffer abuse and abandonment. - This tour of 500 Clown is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program.

New Shanghai Circus Friday, Feb. 26 at 11AM Recommended for grades 3 & up Astonishing athletes defy gravity and execute breathtaking feats as they stretch the limits of human ability in this spellbinding show.  Fearless performers with boundless energy bring you more than two thousand years of Chinese circus traditions.

Project Friday, Mar. 12 at 11AM Recommended for grades 4 & up Project is a dynamic young ensemble whose sound is a fusion of jazz, world music, elements of hip-hop and popular music, balanced by a sincere allegiance to their classical roots. March is Music in Our Schools Month

The Man Who Planted Trees Puppet State Theatre Company Monday, Mar. 15 at 10AM and 12:30PM Recommended for grades 1 & up A captivating adaptation of Jean Giono’s environmental cult classic. A French shepherd sets out with his dog to plant a forest and transform a barren wasteland. Hear the wind, feel the rain, smell the lavender in this multi-sensory theatrical delight.

Zora from the theatrical biography by Laurence Holder LTL American Place Theatre Tuesday, March 16 at 12:00 Recommended for grades 8 & up In this dramatic biography, Zora invites the audience into her exemplary life as a writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

DANCE ALIVE—Ballet Rocks American Repertory Ballet Friday, Mar. 19 at 11AM Recommended for grades K-6 A fact filled performance full of a wide variety of dance.  Students will get a thorough look at the basics of how a ballet dancer copes with the incredible athleticism needed to become a fine artist.  The dancers will take the students through classical and contemporary works and conclude with a question and answer period.

FARFALLE (BUTTERFLIES) Compagne Teatrale TPO Produced in partnership with CRYING OUT LOUD UK Tuesday-Friday, Apr. 6-9 at 10 & 12:30 Recommended for grades preK-4 In Butterflies the audience is immersed in the many folds of this life as “told” by two dancers moving inside a sensitive environment made of music and digital images. At times, the spectator is invited to take part, to enter the scene, to move in among images, which react, to his gestures, her movements. Images enfold him. With Butterflies TPO continues its experiments in the expressive potential arising from the use of new digital languages (computer graphics/interactive technologies) associated with dance, music and movement.

Seussical TheatreworksUSA Monday, Apr. 12 at 10AM and 12:15PM Recommended for grades K-4 “Oh, the thinks you can think” when Dr. Seuss’ best-loved characters and stories hit the stage in this unforgettable musical adventure by Broadway veterans Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. The noble Horton the Elephant, the one-feathered bird Gertrude McFuzz and the antics of the Cat in the Hat steal the spotlight in one of Theatreworks’ largest-scale productions to date!

Ball in the House Friday, May 7 at 11AM Recommended for grades 3 & up A review from the Boston Globe put it very succinctly: Ball in the House has everything you would expect to find in a successful pop/rock band…the one thing it doesn’t have is instruments.

Nate the Great TheatreworksUSA Monday, May 10 at 10AM and 12:30PM Recommended for grades K-4 Who do you call when there’s a mystery you just can’t solve? Nate the Great of course! He has found lost balloons, slippers, chickens, and even a lost goldfish. But, can he solve the baffling case of the missing painting? Find out in this new musical based on the book by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat.

Flight by Sherman Alexie LTL American Place Theatre Tuesday, May 18 at 12:00 Recommended for grades 8 & up Zita, an orphaned mixed-race Native American teen, travels through history to discover an alternative to his contemplated acts of violence.