The Children's Theatre Company (formerly known as The Moppet Players from 1961 to 1965) is a regional theatre

Regional theatre in the United States

Regional theaters, or resident theaters, in the United States are professional or semi-professional, theater companies that produce their own seasons. The term regional theatre most often refers to professional theatres outside of New York City...

 established in 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 specializing in plays for families and young audiences and the recipient of a 2003 Tony Award

Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...

 for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Many productions are inspired by classic children's literature, including adaptations of Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series...

, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written by Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard in 1938. Unlike the majority of Dr. Seuss's books, it is written in prose rather than rhyming and metered verse...

, Cinderella

Cinderella

"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...

, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Year with Frog and Toad

A Year with Frog and Toad

A Year With Frog and Toad is a musical written by brothers Robert and Willie Reale , based on the Frog and Toad children's stories written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel...

 and Alice in Wonderland that have been in the company's reparatory for many seasons and are frequently revived. Among their premiere productions was Richard Dworsky

Richard Dworsky

Richard A. Dworsky is a pianist, a composer, and appears weekly on the A Prairie Home Companion public radio variety show from American Public Media as the resident pianist and band leader...

's musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 version of The Marvelous Land of Oz

The Marvelous Land of Oz (musical)

The Marvelous Land of Oz is a musical play by Thomas W. Olson , Gary Briggle , and Richard Dworsky , based on the novel by L. Frank Baum...

, which was one of several productions to be issued on video in the early 1980s.

It operated as The Children's Theatre Company and School, an accredited grade school and high school, for decades. Students were taught regular academic curricula for the first half of the day and then studied performance arts for the second half. Theatre classes were taught by professional company members. The theatre company no longer operates as a school.

The theater was founded by John Clark Donahue. Donahue left the theater in 1984 after being charged with having sexual relations with three male minor students. Donahue was sentenced to a year in prison and 15 years' probation during which time he was to completely disengage himself from the Children's Theatre Company.

Jon Craney served as the theater's second artistic director until 1997, when Peter C. Brosius, the then artistic director of the Improvisational Theatre Project of the Mark Taper Forum

Mark Taper Forum

The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles...

, became the theater's third artistic director in 1997. During his tenure, the organization was awarded the 2003 Regional Theatre Tony Award

Regional Theatre Tony Award

The Regional Theatre Tony Award is a special non-competitive Tony Award given annually to a regional theatre company in the United States. Initially presented in 1948 to Robert Porterfield of the Virginia Barter Theatre for their Contribution To Development Of Regional Theatre, the Regional Theatre...

, the first time ever a youth theater was bestowed this honor. In addition, the theater's production of A Year with Frog and Toad

A Year with Frog and Toad

A Year With Frog and Toad is a musical written by brothers Robert and Willie Reale , based on the Frog and Toad children's stories written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel...

, which completed a run at the Cort Theatre

Cort Theatre

The Cort Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 138 West 48th Street in the Theatre District of midtown Manhattan in New York City...

 on Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 in June 2003, was nominated for three Tony Awards. In 1998, under Brosius' leadership, the theater established THRESHOLD, a new play laboratory that has allowed them to work with some of the leading playwrights in America to create world premiere productions: Nilo Cruz

Nilo Cruz

Nilo Cruz is an Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue. With his award of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play, Anna in the Tropics, he became the first Latino so honored.-Early years:...

, Jeffrey Hatcher

Jeffrey Hatcher

Jeffrey Hatcher is a playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which he later adapted into a screenplay, shortened to just Stage Beauty...

, Kia Corthrun, Naomi Iizuka

Naomi Iizuka

Naomi Iizuka is a playwright. Iizuka's works often have a non-linear storyline and are influenced by her multicultural background.Iizuka's mother is an American Latina and her father is a Japanese banker. Born in Tokyo, Iizuka grew up in Japan, Indonesia, Holland, and Washington, D.C., United...

, to name a few. Along with new play development, Brosius has helped launch new education programs, one of which is the acclaimed Neighborhood Bridges program that is being used as a national model.

Architect Michael Graves

Michael Graves

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 designed the new building for the theatre in 2001.

Season 1 (1961-1962)

• Pecos Bill
  Pecos Bill
  Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. Their stories were probably invented into short stories and book by Edward O'Reilly in the...
  
  
• Bill Eden's Magic Carnival
• The Reluctant Dragon
  The Reluctant Dragon
  The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame , which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. The story has also been set to music as a children's operetta by John Rutter, with words by David Grant...
  
  
• Why the Chimes Rang
• Sleeping Beauty
  Sleeping Beauty
  Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault or Little Briar Rose by the Brothers Grimm is a classic fairytale involving a beautiful princess, enchantment, and a handsome prince...
  
  
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of a poem by Goethe, Der Zauberlehrling, written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas.-Story:...
  
  
• The Nightingale
• The Magic Fishbone
• The Magic Horse
• Hansel and Gretel
  Hansel and Gretel
  "Hansel and Gretel" is a well-known fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister threatened by a cannibalistic hag living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and confectionery. The two children...
  
  

Season 2 (1962-1963)

• The Reluctant Dragon
• Madeline
  Madeline
  Madeline is a children's book series written by Ludwig Bemelmans, an Austrian author. The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film...
  
  
• Winnie the Pooh
• The Swineherd
  The Swineherd
  "The Swineherd" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a prince who disguises himself as a swineherd to woo an arrogant princess. The tale was first published 20  December 1841 by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark in Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. The...
  
  
• Merry Tyll's Pranks
• Alice Through the Looking Glass

Season 3 (1963-1964)

• The Emperor's New Clothes
  The Emperor's New Clothes
  "The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent...
  
  
• Shoofly Pie for Christmas
• Budelinck and The 3 Billy Goats Gruff
• The Nightingale
• Ozma of Oz
  Ozma of Oz
  Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L....
  
  
• Hansel and Gretel

Season 4 (1964-1965)

• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• A Christmas Fantasy in Dance
• The Bremen Town Musicians
• The World of Mother Goose
  Mother Goose
  The familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one "nursery rhyme". A Christmas pantomime called Mother Goose is often performed in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• The Princess and the Pea
  The Princess and the Pea
  "The Princess and the Pea" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity. The tale was first published with three others by Andersen in an inexpensive booklet on 8 May 1835 in Copenhagen by C.A...
  
  
• Mr. Muffie's Magic Mimes
• Jack and the Beanstalk
  Jack and the Beanstalk
  Jack and the Beanstalk is a folktale said by English historian Francis Palgrave to be an oral legend that arrived in England with the Vikings. The tale is closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant-killer. It is known under a number of versions...
  
  

Season 5 (1965-1966)

• The Sleeping Beauty
• A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...
  
  
• Good Morning, Mr. Tillie
• Rumpelstiltskin
  Rumpelstiltskin
  Rumpelstiltskin is the eponymous character and protagonist of a fairy tale which originated in Germany . The tale was collected by the Brothers Grimm, who first published it in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales...
  
  
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great many children from the town of Hamelin , Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in pied clothing, leading the children away from the town never...
  
  

Season 6 (1966-1967)

• King Arthur and the Magic Sword
• Cinderella
  Cinderella
  "Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
  
  
• The Emperor's Nightingale
  The Emperor's Nightingale
  The Emperor's Nightingale is a 1949 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka and Miloš Makovec. The film is based on the fairy tale The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Boris Karloff provides the voice of the narrator in an American dubbed version.-Cast:* Helena Patočková as the...
  
  
• Hang On to Your Head
• Johnny Appleseed
  Johnny Appleseed
  Johnny Appleseed , born John Chapman, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois...
  
  

Season 7 (1967-1968)

• Oliver Twist
  Oliver Twist
  Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to...
  
  
• The World of Mother Goose
• Beauty and the Beast
  Beauty and the Beast
  Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740...
  
  
• Old Kieg of Malfi
• The Emperor's New Clothes
  The Emperor's New Clothes
  "The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent...
  
  
• Variations on a Similar Theme

Season 8 (1968-1969)

• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• A Christmas Carol
• The Little Mermaid
  The Little Mermaid
  "The Little Mermaid" is a popular fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince...
  
  
• How Could You Tell?
• Johnny Tremain
  Johnny Tremain
  Johnny Tremain is a 1944 children's novel by Esther Forbes set in Boston prior to and during the outbreak of the American Revolution. The novel's themes include apprenticeship, courtship, sacrifice, human rights, and the growing tension between Whigs and Tories as conflict nears...
  
  
• Chekhov's "A Wedding" and Variations

Season 9 (1969-1970)

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820...
  
  
• Cinderella
• Kidnapped in London
• Good Morning, Mr. Tillie
• Alice in Wonderland
• Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
  The Three Bears
  "The Story of the Three Bears" is a fairy tale first recorded in narrative form by British author and poet Robert Southey, and first published anonymously in a volume of his writings in 1837...
  
   & Little Red Riding Hood
  Little Red Riding Hood
  Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap, is a French fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings....
  
  
• Tour (Washington, D.C.): The Lower Depths
  The Lower Depths
  The Lower Depths is perhaps Maxim Gorky's best-known play. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled "Scenes from Russian Life," it depicted a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. Produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18,...
  
  ; Good Morning, Mr. Tillie

Season 10 (1970-1971)

• Rip Van Winkle
  Rip Van Winkle
  "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon...
  
  
• The Little Match Girl
  The Little Match Girl
  The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's dreams and hope, and was first published in 1845. It has been adapted to various media including animated film, and a television musical.-Plot summary:On a cold New Year’s...
  
  
• Moliere's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is a five-act comédie-ballet—a play intermingled with music, dance and singing—by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors...
  
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• The Princess and the Pea
• The 3 Little Pigs & The 3 Billy Goats Gruff
• Jerusalem
• Little Women
  Little Women
  Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869...
  
  
• The Adventures of Huck Finn
• A Wall
• Summer Theatre Institute: Children; Goodbye, Goodbye

Season 11 (1971-1972)

• Robin Hood: A Story of the Forest
• Peter and the Wolf
  Peter and the Wolf
  Peter and the Wolf , Op. 67, is a composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 in the USSR. It is a children's story , spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra....
  
   and The Ugly Duckling
• Under the Milk Wood
• Spoon River Anthology
  Spoon River Anthology
  Spoon River Anthology , by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate...
  
  
• Sleeping Beauty
• Hansel and Gretel
• The School for Scandal
  The School for Scandal
  The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on May 8, 1777.The prologue, written by David Garrick, commends the play, its subject, and its author to the audience...
  
  
• The Cookie Jar
• The Sitwells at Sea
• Madeline and the Gypsies
• A Suitcase & Variations on a Similar Theme
• An Evening of Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
  
  
• Tour (ASSITEJ/New England): Potpourri, Hang On to Your Head
• Summer Theatre Institute: The Boy Friend
  The Boy Friend
  The Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history until it was surpassed by Salad Days...
  
  , Musical Chairs

Season 12 (1972-1973)

• Raggedy Ann & Andy
  Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
  Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure is a 1977 American animated film directed by Richard Williams. It was produced by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, and released by 20th Century Fox...
  
  
• Bellavita & Sicilian Limes
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier
• The Netting of the Troupial
• Johnny Appleseed
• Local Tour: Rutabaga Follies
• Summer Theatre Institute: Babes in Arms
• Film: A Suitcase
• Regional Tour: Rumpelstiltskin
  Rumpelstiltskin
  Rumpelstiltskin is the eponymous character and protagonist of a fairy tale which originated in Germany . The tale was collected by the Brothers Grimm, who first published it in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales...
  
   & Kalulu and His Money Farm: Two African Tales

Season 13 (1973-1974)

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820...
  
  
• A Christmas Carol
• The Nightingale
• The Boy Friend
• The Fourposter
• Regional Tour: Hansel and Gretel, The Nightingale
• Summer Theatre Institute: Changes
• Residency (St. Olaf College): Memory Petals

Season 14 (1974-1975)

• Pinocchio
• Ukrainian Tales: The Fat Cat & The Chatterbox
• On the Harmfulness of Tobacco, The Swan Song, A Celebration
• Cinderella
• The Nightingale
• He Who Gets Slapped
• Peter and the Wolf & The Ugly Duckling
• The Imaginary Invalid
• Residency (South High School): No Strings
• Summer Theatre Institute: The Squeeze

Season 15 (1975-1976)

• Treasure Island
• The Sea Gull
• The Little Match Girl
• Mother Goose
• The Snow Queen
• Twelfth Night
• A Room in Paradise
• Regional Tour: Mother Goose
• Local Tour: Paul Bunyan Meets His Match
• Summer Theatre Institute: The Empty Place
• Tour (Mexico): The Nightingale

Season 16 (1976-1977)

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Regional Tour: Goldilocks and the 3 Bears & Little Red Riding Hood
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Cinderella
• The Dream Fisher
• Romeo and Juliet
• Oliver!
• A Suitcase and Variations on a Similar Theme
• Summer Theatre Institute: Three Can't Fit in a Rickshaw

Season 17 (1977-1978)

• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
• Thieves' Carnival
• The Little Match Girl
• Beauty and the Beast
• A Circle is the Sun
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Rivals
• Punch and Judy & The Three Sillies
• Summer Theatre Institute: A Taste of Berries

Season 18 (1978-1979)

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Hansel and Gretel
• A Christmas Carol
• The Little Mermaid
• Good Morning, Mr. Tillie
• Pinocchio
• The Green Beetle Dance
• The Sitwells at Sea
• Residency (South High School): Bullseye
• Summer Theatre Institute: Summer Matters

Season 19 (1979-1980)

• Treasure Island
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Falling Moon
• Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• Moon Over Rio
• The Festival of Our Lord of the Ships
• Summer Theatre Institute: Equinox, Stargazer

Season 20 (1980-1981)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Story of Babar, the little elephant
• Cinderella
• The Three Musketeers
• The Clown of God
• The Marvelous Land of Oz
  The Marvelous Land of Oz (musical)
  The Marvelous Land of Oz is a musical play by Thomas W. Olson , Gary Briggle , and Richard Dworsky , based on the novel by L. Frank Baum...
  
  
• Video: The Marvelous Land of Oz
• Summer Theatre Institute: Desert in Flower, The Great American Family, Merely Players

Season 21 (1981-1982)

• Kidnapped in London
• Puss in Boots
• The Little Match Girl
• The Cookie Jar
• Phantom of the Opera
• Alice in Wonderland
• Video: Alice in Wonderland & Puss in Boots
• Outreach Tour: Brothers and Sisters
• Summer Theatre Institute: Across Town, The Contenders, Ten-and-a-Half

Season 22 (1982-1983)

• Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• Mr. Pickwick's Christmas
• Pippi Longstocking
• The Clown of God
• The Red Shoes
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Wind in the Willows
• Outreach Tour: Brothers and Sisters
• Summer Theatre Institute: Aviation, Catch a Z, The Convention Grill-Part I, One That Goes Out
• Video: The Red Shoes & The Wind in the Willows

Season 23 (1983-1984)

• The Secret Garden
• The Adventures of Babar
• Cinderella
• Frankenstein
• The Nightingale
• Pinocchio
• Video: Frankenstein
• Outreach Tour: Hand in Hand
• Summer Theatre Institute: Raisin' Cain, Raymond in Space, The Troubles: Children of Belfast

Season 24 (1984-1985)

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Madeline and the Gypsies
• The Mystery of the Tattered Trunk
• The Little Match Girl
• The Princess and the Pea
• Penrod
• Outreach Tour: Hand in Hand

Season 25 (1985-1986)

• King Arthur and the Magic Sword
• The Adventures of a Bear Called Paddington
• Goldilocks and the 3 Bears & Little Red Riding Hood
• Cinderella
• The Adventures of Mottel
• Harold and the Purple Crayon
• Little Women
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• Peter Pan

Season 26 (1986-1987)

• Little House on the Prairie
• Strega Nona
• Beatrix Potter's Christmas
• Hansel and Gretel
• Rumpelstiltskin & Kalulu and His Money Farm: Two African Tales
• Dracula
• Little Miss Hollywood
• Alice in Wonderland
• CTC On Tour: Hansel and Gretel

Season 27 (1987-1988)

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Raggedy Ann & Andy
• Merry Christmas, Strega Nona
• Young Jane Eyre
• Harriet the Spy
• The Troubles: Children of Belfast
• Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
• CTC On Tour: Little Women

Season 28 (1988-1989)

• The Velveteen Rabbit
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Beatrix Potter's Christmas
• The Secret Garden
• Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
• Rembrandt Takes a Walk
• Pippi Longstocking
• CTC On Tour: Rumpelstiltskin & Kalulu and His Money Farm: Two African Tales
• Soviet Exchange: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Soviet Exchange: Rembrandt Takes a Walk

Season 29 (1989-1990)

• Coyote Discovers America
• The Story of Babar, the little elephant
• Cinderella
• Tomie de Paola's Mother Goose
• Nancy Drew Mystery
• The Hobbit
• Tour (National): Raggedy Ann & Andy
• Soviet Exchange (Host): A Dream to be Continued

Season 30 (1990-1991)

• Oliver Twist
• Madeline's Rescue
• Peter Pan
• Cinderella (O'Shaughnessy)
• Lyle the Crocodile
• A Midsummer's Night Dream
• Pinocchio
• Tour (National/O'Shaughnessy): Pippi Longstocking
• China Exchange: Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Season 31 (1991-1992)

• A Wrinkle in Time
• On the Wings of the Hummingbirds: Tales of Trinidad
• Merry Chrissy, Strega Nona (O'Shaughnessy)
• Ramona Quimby
• Our Town
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Little Match Girl
• A Wrinkle in Time (O'Shaughnessy)
• CTC On Tour: The Canterville Ghost

Season 32 (1992-1993)

• Treasure Island
• Mr. Popper's Penguins
• The Jungle Book (O'Shaughnessy)
• The Velveteen Rabbit
• Beatrix Potter's Christmas (O'Shaughnessy)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• CTC On Tour: The Jungle Book
• The Miser
• Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (O'Shaughnessy)

Season 33 (1993-1994)

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Strega Nona Meets Her Match
• Cinderella
• Crow and Weasel
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Alice in Wonderland
• CTC On Tour: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Season 34 (1994-1995)

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Animal Fables From Aesop
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Amazing Grace
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon
• The Wind in the Willows
• CTC On Tour: Animal Fables (From Aesop)

Season 35 (1995-1996)

• The Invisible Man
• Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Linnea in Monet's Garden
• The Adventure of Mottel
• The Story of Babar, the little elephant
• CTC On Tour: Ramona Quimby

Season 36 (1996-1997)

• Little Women (August 29, 1996-October 19, 1996)
• The Reluctant Dragon (August 31, 1996-November 3, 1996)
• Cinderella (November 13, 1996-December 28, 1996)
• Miss Nelson is Missing (January 7, 1997-April 13, 1997)
• Don Quixote (February 5, 1997-February 22, 1997)
• Not Without Laughter (March 4, 1997-April 19, 1997)
• The Hobbit (April 29, 1997-June 21, 1997)
• CTC On Tour: A Mark Twain Storybook

Season 37 (1997-1998)

• The Prince and the Pauper
• Madeline's Rescue
• Peter Pan
• Boundless Grace
• The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes
• Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (April 14, 1998-June 13, 1998)
• CTC On Tour: Tomie dePaola's Strega Nona

Season 38 (1998-1999)

• Mr. Popper's Penguins
• Afternoon of the Elves
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays
• Whale
• Once on This Island
• CTC On Tour: Wondrous Tales of Old Japan

Season 39 (1999-2000)

• A Village Fable (August 31, 1999-October 30, 1999)
• Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (September 7, 1999-November 7, 1999)
• Cinderella
• Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham/Garrison Keillor's The Old Man
• Starry Messenger: A Fantasia on the Life of Gallileo
• Pinocchio (April 11, 2000-June 10, 2000)
• CTC On Tour: Tremendously Tall Tales by Capt. Eddie B. Brown and his Traveling All-Star Yokels

Season 40 (2000-2001)

• Stamping, Shouting & Singing Home (August 29, 2000-October 22, 2000)
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (September 5, 2000-November 5, 2000)
• The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (November 15, 2000-January 6, 2001)
• Lyle the Crocodile (January 16, 2001-April 7, 2001)
• Mississippi Panorama (February 20, 2001-April 1, 2001)
• Pippi Longstocking (April 17, 2001-June 9, 2001)
• CTC On Tour: Lyle the Crocodile

Season 41 (2001-2002)

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (August 21, 2001-November 3, 2001)
• Dragonwings (September 4, 2001-October 21, 2001)
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (November 14, 2001-January 5, 2002)
• The Beggars' Strike (January 15, 2002-February 16, 2002)
• The Snow Queen (February 26, 2002-April 13, 2002)
• Alice in Wonderland (April 23, 2002-June 16, 2002)
• CTC On Tour: Grimm Tales

Season 42 (2002-2003)

• A Year with Frog and Toad (August 20, 2002-November 2, 2002)
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (September 3, 2002-October 19, 2002)
• The Wizard of Oz (November 19, 2002-January 12, 2003)
• Once Upon a Forest (January 21, 2003-March 8, 2003)
• Korczak's Children (March 18, 2003-April 19, 2003)
• Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (April 29, 2003-June 22, 2003)
• Antigone (May 9, 2003-May 24, 2003)
• CTC On Tour: Snowflake

Season 43 (2003-2004)

• Honk! The Ugly Duckling (August 19, 2003-November 1, 2003)
• Amber Waves (September 2, 2003-October 11, 2003)
• The Wizard of Oz (November 18, 2003-January 10, 2004)
• Lily's Purple Plastic Purse (January 20, 2004-March 6, 2004)
• Prom (March 4, 2004-March 21, 2004)
• Snapshot Silhouette (March 16, 2004-April 17, 2004)
• The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (April 27, 2004-June 20, 2004)
• CTC On Tour: Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Season 44 (2004-2005)

• Go, Dog, Go! (August 17, 2004-October 30, 2004)
• Hansel and Gretel (August 31, 2004-October 9, 2004)
• A Year With Frog and Toad (November 16, 2004-January 7, 2005)
• Brooklyn Bridge (January 18, 2005-February 19, 2005)
• Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (February 2, 2005-February 13, 2005)
• The Monkey King (March 1, 2005-April 16, 2005)
• The Hobbit (April 26, 2005-June 19, 2005)

Season 45 (2005-2006)

• Sleeping Beauty (August 23, 2005-October 29, 2005)
• 4-ISH (August 31, 2005-October 8, 2005)
• The Cat's Journey (October 4, 2005-October 30, 2005)
• Flow (November 3, 2005-November 20, 2005)
• Disney's Aladdin (November 15, 2005-January 6, 2006)
• Reeling (January 17, 2006-March 4, 2006)
• Prom (February 14, 2006-March 19, 2006)
• Esperanza Rising (March 14, 2006-April 15, 2006)
• Anon(ymous) (April 4, 2006-April 30, 2006)
• Pippi Longstocking (April 25, 2006-June 18, 2006)

Season 46 (2006-2007)

• The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) (August 22, 2006-October 29, 2006)
• The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 (September 5, 2006-October 7, 2006)
• Antigone (October 24, 2006-November 19, 2006)
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (November 8, 2006-December 31, 2006)
• Disney's High School Musical (January 3, 2007-March 11, 2007)
• Tales of a West Texas Marsupial Girl (January 16, 2007-February 25, 2007)
• Huck Finn (March 6, 2007-April 7, 2007)
• The Lost Boys of Sudan (March 27, 2007-April 22, 2007)
• Seussical (April 24, 2007-June 17, 2007)
• The Green Sheep (May 8, 2007-June 3, 2007)

Season 47 (2007-2008)

• Disney's High School Musical (June 28, 2007-July 22, 2007)
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (August 21, 2007-October 28, 2007)
• Average Family (September 4, 2007-October 6, 2007)
• Fashion 47 (September 25, 2007-October 21, 2007)
• A Special Trade (November 6, 2007-December 30, 2007)
• A Year With Frog and Toad (November 13, 2007-January 5, 2008)
• Bud, Not Buddy (January 15, 2008-February 16, 2008)
• The Stones (February 12, 2008-March 9, 2008)
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (February 26, 2008-April 6, 2008)
• The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (April 22, 2008-June 15, 2008)

Season 48 (2008-2009)

• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (July 8, 2008-July 20, 2008)
• Peter Pan (September 5, 2008-January 3, 2009)
• Madeline and the Gypsies (September 16, 2008-October 26, 2008)
• Five Fingers of Funk (October 21, 2008-November 16, 2008)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (November 11, 2008-January 3, 2009)
• The Gruffalo (January 13, 2009-February 22, 2009)
• Romeo and Juliet (February 10, 2009-March 15, 2009)
• Iqbal (March 3, 2009-March 28, 2009)
• Circoluna (Circus Moon) (March 31, 2009-April 26, 2009)
• Ramona Quimby (April 21, 2009-June 7, 2009)

Season 49 (2009-2010)

• Bert & Ernie, Goodnight! (September 8, 2009-October 25, 2009)
• The Mayhem Poets (October 13, 2009-November 7, 2009)
• Cinderella
  Cinderella
  "Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
  
   (November 10, 2009-January 2, 2010)
• Mr. McGee and the Biting Flea (January 20, 2010-February 21, 2010)
• According to Coyote
  Coyote (mythology)
  Coyote is a mythological character common to many Native American cultures, based on the coyote animal. This character is usually male and is generally anthropomorphic although he may have some coyote-like physical features such as fur, pointed ears, yellow eyes, a tail and claws...
  
   (February 9, 2010-March 21, 2010)
• Iron Ring
  Iron Ring
  The Iron Ring is a ring worn by many engineers in Canada as a symbol and reminder of the obligations and ethics associated with the profession. Obtaining the ring is an optional endeavour, as it is not a prerequisite to becoming a Professional Engineer...
  
   (March 9, 2010-April 10, 2010)
• Disney's Mulan Jr. (April 27, 2010-June 13, 2010)
• The Biggest Little House in the Forest (April 27, 2010-June 20, 2010)

Season 50 (2010-2011)

• Dr. Seuss' The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
  The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
  The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a children's book, written by Dr. Seuss and published by Vanguard in 1938. Unlike the majority of Dr. Seuss's books, it is written in prose rather than rhyming and metered verse...
  
   (September 7, 2010-October 30, 2010)
• Robin Hood
  Robin Hood
  Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
  
   (September 28, 2010-December 5, 2010)
• A Christmas Story
  A Christmas Story
  A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It was directed by Bob Clark...
  
   (November 16, 2010-December 31, 2010)
• Babe, the Sheep Pig (January 11, 2011-February 27, 2011)
• Barrio Grrrl!: A New Musical (March 2, 2011-March 27, 2011)
• Annie
  Annie (musical)
  Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...
  
  (April 12, 2011-June 26, 2011)

Season 51 (2011-2012)

• Mercy Watson to the Rescue! (September 6, 2011-October 23, 2011)
• A Wrinkle in Time (September 27, 2011-December 4, 2011)
• The Wizard of Oz (November 8, 2011-January 8, 2012)
• Harold and the Purple Crayon (January 17, 2012-February 26, 2012)
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (March 13, 2012-April 8, 2012)
• Pippi Longstocking (April 24, 2012-June 10, 2012)

External links

• Children's Theatre official website