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It all began in New York City. The year was 1967. “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” based on Charles M. Schultz’s Peanuts grade-school comic strip characters, premiered Off Broadway and starred Gary Burghoff (that’s right, “Radar” from M.A.S.H.) as Charlie Brown. After 1,597 performances, the show hit the Broadway stage in 1971 and spurred View more

Shanara Gabrielle learned the performance art of aerial silks about three years ago. A friend offered to teach her the skill which requires performers to use only the silks, their muscles and training to keep themselves suspended above the stage while doing various poses and movements without a safety net or line.

The imagination is a magical place inhabited mostly by children and a few lucky adults. Playwright Miriam Gonzalez, a young writer from South Texas with several productions under her belt, celebrates the purity and magic of children’s dreams and storytelling in “The Smartest Girl in the World.”

Imagine living in a world where everything was the color blue. Azure flowers greet you in the cobalt-colored grass under a turquoise sky. This is the world Inky and Pale have come to know, understand and accept until....they find something red.

Before it was a Disney blockbuster film, “Beauty and the Beast” was a classic French fairytale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, chock full of all the storybook ingredients young readers can wrap their imagination around: a forest, an enchantress, a young prince, an inventor, a castle, and a magic mirror. Did we mention the pack of wolves?

“It’s about anything and everything we aspire to as human beings, but don’t necessarily achieve,” said Janet Stanford, Imagination Stage’s artistic director.

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