CATouringCompanies

Open Dream Ensemble (The Amazing Adventures of Anna Marie, The Red Planet ) uses dancers, actors, and musicians trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Combining their talents, they perform original, multi-disciplinary works that highlight the importance of learning, teamwork, determination, and imagination.

TheatreworksUSA (Seussical) is one of America’s largest and most prolific professional not-for-profit theatres for young and family audiences. Since 1961, the New York City-based group has performed for more than 78 million people in 49 states and Canada. The Actors Fund of American bestowed its Medal of Honor upon the TheatreworksUSA founders in 2000.

Eckerd Theatre Company (Vote, Interrupting Vanessa), in residence at Ruth Eckerd Hall at the Richard B. Baumgardner Center in Clearwater, Florida, explores diversity, multiculturalism, self-worth, loyalty, and tolerance in their creative and innovative productions.

Caribbean Sound (Pan By Storm), based in Jacksonville, Florida, enthralls audiences with traditional Calypso, contemporary classics, and original compositions for the steel pan. The music of Caribbean Sound is grounded in classical and jazz traditions, combined with years of cultural research of Caribbean rhythms to create marvelous performances.

ArtsPower (Madeline & The Bad Hat, The Rainbow Fish) based in Montclair, New Jersey, enhances “character education” among young people by creating theatre that fosters moral development, encourages self-expression, ignites the desire to read, and advances development as productive members of society.

National Players (Shakespeare's "As You Like It") has been touring for almost 60 years and is America’s longest running classical touring company. They celebrate theatergoing by bringing the world’s greatest dramatic literature alive for audiences of all ages. Players’ productions adhere to the traditions of touring theatre, with company members doubling and tripling in roles and working on lighting, sound, costumes, make-up, and set construction. National Players is the touring program of the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland.

Theatre IV (Beatrix Potter's "The Tailor of Gloucester"), based in Richmond, is the largest professional theatre in Virginia and one of the largest children’s theatres in the nation. Educational leaders have called Theatre IV one of public education’s great treasures.

The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences on Tour (Phantom Tollbooth)is based at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Their plays and musicals originate as newly commissioned productions at the Kennedy Center before touring. The touring company consists of carefully selected professionals with extensive experience in youth and adult theatre.

JazzReach (Hangin' with the Giants, Stolen Moments), based in New York City, is one of America’s leading arts organizations dedicated to jazz. JazzReach fosters a greater awareness, appreciation and understanding of jazz as a vital American art form.

New York Theatre Ballet (Once Upon A Ballet: "Carnival of the Animals" & "Sleeping Beauty"), founded in 1978, is the most widely seen chamber ballet company in the United States, and is hailed by The New York Times as a “discreet little pearl in the oyster of New York dance”. The company has earned acclaim for its restoration and revival of small masterworks by great choreographers such as George Balanchine, Michel Fokine, John Tara, and Antony Tudor; and for it’s innovative ballets based on children’s literature. NYTB has produced dozens of contemporary ballets and classic masterworks for adult audiences, as well as hour-long ballets for children, which proved so popular among family audiences, that this innovative concept grew into their current Once Upon A Ballet series.

Magic Tree House series has sold nearly 53 million copies in North America of its mega-bestselling books since its debut in 1992, securing its coveted spot on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list as one of the top 5 bestselling series! For the first time in history, Random House Books for Young Readers will simultaneously publish their newest fiction title, Dark Day in the Deep Sea.

Mad Science Productions (CSI: LIVE!)out of Canada, encourages scientific literacy in children in an age when science is as vital as reading, writing and arithmetic. A national study indicated that Mad Science shows an increased student interest in and knowledge of science, and sparks an attitude that science is fun.

Kahurangi (Kahurangi Maori: Dance Theatre of New Zealand)is a national cultural, educational and employment program which encourages cultural understanding among people of all nations. They are the only professional Maori Dance company touring North America. The Ensemble performers in North America are graduates from the TAKITIMU Performing Arts School in Hastings, NZ, the first accredited institution in New Zealand to specialize in the instruction and preservation of the Maori Performing Arts. Company members selected to tour in North America have had a minimum of two years of professional performance experience in New Zealand.

Dallas Children’s Theatre (Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters) is rated by TIME Magazine as one of the top five theatres in the nation for youth. Based in Dallas, Texas, D.C.T. is a professional theatre dedicated to education, serving more than 250,000 young people and their families through its national touring company.