The 2025-2026 Season
Our 2025-2026 Season is Here!
Ready to explore the most legendary, award-winningest, soul-searchingest, super eye-popping, terrifically jaw-dropping, blow-your-socks-off theatre experiences for young people and families in all the land?
Your adventure starts here!
Treasure Island
Adapted for the Stage by Stuart Paterson
Directed by Rick Dildine
September 9-October 19, 2025
UnitedHealth Group Stage
Best for Everyone 8 and Up!
The sea is calling! Join this swashbuckling adventure in which gold-hungry pirates and not-so-noblemen are repeatedly outwitted by one clever boy. Is Long John Silver an unlikely friend, or a treacherous villain? In between sword fights and rounds of live music, you can decide for yourself!
Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile The Musical
Book and Lyrics by Suhayla El-Bushra
Music by Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab
Additional Music and Lyrics from Tom Brady
October 1-November 23, 2025
Cargill Stage
Best for All Ages!
Originally co-produced by Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Roald Dahl Story Company and Leeds Playhouse.
The Enormous Crocodile musical was developed by Emily Lim, Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab, Suhayla El-Bushra, Tom Brady and The Roald Dahl Story Company.
The Enormous Crocodile is weaving his way through the jungle with his tummy rumbling… Get to know all of the creatively puppeted creatures in the U.S. premiere of this smash U.K. hit. You’ll go from the jungle into outer space and back again, just in time for a wild dance party!
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Based on the Book How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Book and Lyrics by Timothy Mason
Music by Mel Marvin
Choreography by Karla Grotting
Directed by Dean Holt
A Children’s Theatre Company Original Production
November 4, 2025–January 4, 2026
UnitedHealth Group Stage
Best for all ages!
In this CTC holiday favorite, filled with music and Seussian rhymes, The Grinch plots the greatest heist imaginable—stealing the very thing the joyful Whos love the most! Until, that is, the combination of kindness and community produces not only a change in the course of Who-History, but the size and capacity of the old green guy’s heart.
Go, Dog. Go! • Ve Perro ¡Ve!
Adapted for the Stage by Allison Gregory & Steven Dietz
Directed by Juliette Carrillo
Based on the Classic Book by P.D. Eastman
Music Composed by Michael Koerner
Spanish Translations by Ana Maria Campoy
Originally commissioned and produced by Seattle Children’s Theatre in Seattle, WA
Produced by special arrangement with Plays for New Audiences
January 20-February 22, 2026
UnitedHealth Group Stage
Best for younger audiences!
P.D. Eastman’s classic book lands onstage with roller-skating, bike-riding, and scoot-scootering dogs that speak—in both Spanish and English! Soon, you’ll be singing along with this bilingual spectacle that makes no sense (and TOTAL sense), all at the same time!
Forts! Build Your Own Adventure
Conceived by Julie Ritchey
Created in Collaboration with Eleanor Kahn, Jeffrey Levin, Christian Libonati, Andrew Marikis, and Carley Walker
February 13-April 5, 2026
Cargill Stage
Best for all ages!
An interactive experience! Imagine you’re surrounded by old sofas, crazy lampshades, piles of blankets, and towering towers of cardboard boxes in the coolest attic you’ve ever seen, where everything’s up for grabs. What will you build? In Forts! you make it all happen.
Dinosaur World Live
Written and Directed by Derek Bond
Puppet Design by Max Humphries
Puppet Direction by Laura Cubitt
Produced by Nicoll Entertainment
March 3-April 5, 2026
UnitedHealth Group Stage
Best for Everyone 3 and Up!
Dinosaurs take over CTC! Feel the rumble of their rawrs as a young paleontologist takes you up-close-and-personal! This extraordinary experience has wowed kids and adults all over the world. But be on the lookout: you never know who (or what!) you’ll run into after the show…
The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum
With Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg
Background Music by Herbert Stothart
Dance and Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard
Orchestration by Larry Wilcox
Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company
Choreography by Christopher Windom
Directed by Rick Dildine
Based upon the Classic Motion Picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by Warner Bros.
April 21-June 14, 2026
UnitedHealth Group Stage
Best for all ages
It’s not every day that a wild tornado whizzes right over your head! Or that the entire world magically shifts from black and white to technicolor before your very eyes. Join Dorothy, her three oh-so-curious friends, and Toto in this grand spectacle, featuring songs you know and love from the classic film!
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