Festival At a Glance

Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia (Canada)

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African Sunshine

Scintillating rhythm, music, dance and song blend together to create a breath-taking ensemble of choreography. Pulsating rhythms and visually vibrant performances sweep up and captivate the most diverse range of spectators. This company of dancers and percussionists from the Congo offers its audience a performance brimming with energy and intensity.

40 minutes — Best for all ages

Synod Hall

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is filled with some of the Neighbors and puppets that children (and grown-ups) have come to know and love.  Delight in a special performance, featuring several of Mister Rogers' Neighbors, including speedy deliveries from Mr. McFeely, music from Handyman Negri and surprise visits from other favorite Neighborhood friends.

40 minutes — Best for ages 2-8

Carnegie Lecture Hall

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TPO

(Italy)

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Imagine the life of a butterfly. From a tiny egg wriggles a larva that grows into a caterpillar. Munching away, the caterpillar soon spins a silvery shell to disguise its transformation. Suddenly: fluttering, dancing wings that flit for perhaps one day.

 Now imagine that you are in the butterfly’s world. You can touch the wings, the wings whirr away, the sun glints on your face, shadows trace along the ground as you hear the wings beat. In Farfalle, the audience enters a virtual world to become part of the action. Two actors, digital imagery, and sensors that interact in real time with the actors’ movements on a shifting landscape of sound, motion, and astonishing images to capture this delicate realm. TPO unleashs the beauty and expressive possibilities in mixing theatre, sensory boundaries, dance, visual magic, music, and emotion.  

Plus! Special Interactive Installation Sessions allow participants to be enveloped in this beautiful atmosphere—creating your own theatrical art as the piece itself responds to you.

45 minutes — Best for ages 4+

Interactive Installation Sessions: 20 minutes

Studio Theatre

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The Hobbit from Beneath the Stage

Get ready to get caught in a comedy where two men take an incredible journey behind the scenes of a stage performance, where they use their imaginations to produce color sounds that alone, steal the show.

50 minutes — Best for ages 7+

Bellefield Hall Auditorium

Bambalina

(Spain)

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Never before has recycling been so imaginative, playful and eye-opening. Enter a world where an everyday object’s conventional use is transformed into something magical. Kraft paper becomes an instrument of nature, creating the sounds of crashing waves, rustling leaves, and the crackling of a fire’s flames. Audiences are reminded that it was once a tree which provided oxygen that we need to live and breathe. In a time when the planet’s resources are scarce, we are reminded of their preciousness and our responsibility to eliminate waste.

40 minutes — Best for ages 4+

Bellefield Hall Auditorium

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Through their work with Gateway to the Arts, Resonance Percussion has been educating children grades K-12 about world music since 2005. In this first production of Harmony Street, written especially for the 23rd Annual Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival, the audience is introduced to music from four distinct world cultures through a small boy’s journey through the neighborhood during an annual block party.  Once denied the opportunity to play the drums, the boy learns the power of world music and its ability to communicate. Children will not only learn and acquire an appreciation for the music of Ghana, Brazil, Trinidad and American Jazz through storytelling, live musical performances, and projected visual illustrations, but will also celebrate world music through audience participation in the finale.

45 minutes — Best for ages 5+

Charity Randall Theatre

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