Emerald City Theatre Company

I took my two daughters to see Big Friendly Giant today. It was absolutely awful. They used two actors to move a doll, whom was supposed to be a character. The plot was ridiculous. It was slow and, quite frankly, dumb. We will stick to the kids’ productions at Marriott Lincolnshire in the future.

The shows are great but DO NOT get season tickets. They don’t honor them and, unless you schedule the seats early, you can’t actually get seats. You just end up paying for shows they won’t let you schedule. Recommend buying them in advance, though, because they do a great job on the shows.

They are AWESOME! I saw them at the Beverly Arts Center for The Three Little Pigs and today we saw Peter Pan at the Apollo Theater. We just love it (we being, my five year old son, my spouse, and me!).
I don’t know how they do it, but my son is always rooting for the underdog (bad wolf, Captain Hook and Smitty). Smitty was incredible. We really had such a good time and it is such a great exposure for kids in the arts.
The shows are one hour long and interactive. Get an aisle seat!

Take kids here or watch them grow into the kind of savages who wear bedazzled dress sweatshirts to Broadway shows and then talk through the overture. The two essential values of any civilized person are Support Live Theater and Tip Your Server. If you’re looking for great children’s theater to teach the little ones the former, you’ll find it here.
I’ve taken my niece here twice (for Where the Wild Things Are and The Wizard of Oz) and my nephew here once (for The Stinky Cheese Man). The shows are funny, quick, upbeat musicals that clock in at under an hour — just right for the under-​10 set. They’ve got talented actors, creative staging and fun costumes (great puppetry in Wild Things). The actors stick around after the show and sign autographs as their characters.
My five-​year-​old nephew laughed throughout Stinky Cheese. He was a bit shy about audience-​interaction stuff (singing along, responding to characters asking for volunteers or questions of the audience) but he wasn’t pressured and had a great time. It was no chore for me either — I had a wonderful time.