Based on E.B. White’s Newbery Honor-winning children’s novel, Charlotte’s Web tells the story of a blossoming friendship between Wilbur the pig and a poetic, web-spinning spider named Charlotte.

Curriculum Connections:
Literature, Communication & Language Arts, Relationships & Family

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its publication next year. Christopher Sergel’s stage adaptation of Ms. Lee’s classic story continues to compel and delight viewers worldwide with its warmth, wit and wisdom.

Curriculum Connections:
Literature, Communication & Language Arts, Southern Culture, Relationships & Family

Most Valuable Player celebrates the triumphant life of the beloved athlete and national hero Jackie Robinson from childhood to his professional career, where he fought bigotry with courage, intelligence, leadership, resilience and athletic skill to become the 20th century’s first black major league baseball player.

Curriculum Connections:
Social Studies, Character Education/Heroes, Biography, History, Civil Rights/Integration

An unexpected adventure comes alive in this new musical when three students accidentally knock George Washington out of his portrait and into real life during a tour of the White House. While trying to get the nation’s first president back into his painting, the threesome encounters White House residents Jacqueline Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, and Dolley Madison, to name a few.

Curriculum Connections:
American History, Literature, Problem Solving,
Family Influence

Based on four volumes in Barbara Park’s widely popular Junie B. Jones book series, Theatreworks USA’s new musical tells the story of Junie, a precocious first grader who keeps all her memories in her new “top-secret personal beeswax” journal.

Curriculum Connections:
Literature, Communication & Language Arts, Music, Relationships & Family

Giant trains and life-sized toys will captivate children in the stage-adapted version of Watty Piper’s famous tale of optimism and dedication. When several large steam engines — one too proud, one too powerful and one too old — are asked to pull a heavy train full of toys over a steep mountain, all refuse but the ambitious Little Blue Engine. With his motivational phrase “I think I can, I think I can” and help from lively children in the audience, he succeeds.

Curriculum Connections:
Literature, Social/Emotional Learning, Fine Arts

Barry Scott designed A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to teach today’s students about one of America’s most violent and inspiring times and the man who mobilized a generation of people and changed the world. In this hour-long program, Scott discusses King and the Civil Rights Movement in his lecture and impersonates Dr. King, re-creating some of his most inspiring speeches. Scott then tops off the powerful presentation with a Q&A session.

Curriculum Connections:
American History, Social Studies, Southern Culture

This new musical based on the Caldecott Honor-winning book, tells the story of Farmer Brown’s granddaughter coming for a visit. Upon her arrival he declares the farm a “techfree zone,” storing her laptop in the freezingcold barn. The cows use her computer to request blankets from Farmer Brown, but when he refuses, the cows, joined by the chickens, decide to stop giving milk and eggs. The hilarious predicament teaches Farmer Brown and his animals the meaning of compromise.

Curriculum Connections:
Literature, Communication & Language Arts, Music, Current Issues, Relationships & Family