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Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences (The Kennedy Center)

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences

The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences (KCTYA) Program commissions, produces, tours, and presents performances in theater, opera, dance, music, puppetry, and storytelling for children and their families. With a focus on new and innovative theater and musical theater works that excite, inspire, and challenge young audiences, KCTYA devotes itself to producing and presenting diverse productions that draw on the talents of playwrights, composers, directors, designers, and actors from around the country and the world. Our busy season includes three to four commissioned works for in-house productions and two tours that travel across the U.S. for up to eight months at a time.

Watch Past Performances

<I>Of Mice and Manhattan</i> 5/3/10: Of Mice and Manhattan

In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Frank Loesser, the Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences commissioned writer and director Barry Kornhauser to create an original program using some of the unheard songs of the legendary Broadway composer.

Of Mice and Manhattan

In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Frank Loesser, the Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences commissioned writer and director Barry Kornhauser to create an original program using some of the unheard songs of the legendary Broadway composer.
Adventure Theatre / Imagination Stage / Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences 9/5/09: Adventure Theatre / Imagination Stage / Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences

Showcase of selections from new commissioned musical theater projects for young people: Adventure Theatre’s Flat Stanley; Imagination Stage’s Ferdinand the Bull, The Dancing Princesses, and Talk Like a Pirate; and KCTYA’s The Living Heirloom. Part of the 8th Annual Page-to-STAGE festival. Get a sneak peek at new plays and musicals being developed in the Washington area! Go to the web site for a complete schedule and the latest updates.

Adventure Theatre / Imagination Stage / Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences

Showcase of selections from new commissioned musical theater projects for young people: Adventure Theatre’s Flat Stanley; Imagination Stage’s Ferdinand the Bull, The Dancing Princesses, and Talk Like a Pirate; and KCTYA’s The Living Heirloom. Part of the 8th Annual Page-to-STAGE festival. Get a sneak peek at new plays and musicals being developed in the Washington area! Go to the web site for a complete schedule and the latest updates.

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