PARENT GUIDE

Please note: Babes-in-arms and children under age 6 are not admitted to any performance.

If you have any questions please call Audience Services at 213-628-2772.

Center Theatre Group wants to help you make informed decisions about which plays to see with your children. Below you will find tips on the suitability of each production at our theatres.

This information is the most current available. However, theatre is a living medium, and the work evolves throughout the development and rehearsal process. We will do our best to update this guide when artistic choices substantively change the content. Running times are approximate.

2009

AGES 6+

Mary Poppins

Disney adapts everyone’s favorite nanny for the stage
2 hours 50 minutes; one intermission

AGES 11+ (PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED)

Ain't Misbeahvin'

Musical revue celebrating Fats Waller and the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance; bawdy humor, mature themes
2 hours; one intermission

An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin
Two Broadway luminaries reunite for a dazzling evening of song
2 hours; one intermission

Spamalot

Monty Python musical comedy; British silliness and naughtiness
2 hours 20 minutes; one intermission

Parade

Musical drama about a controversial murder trial in 1913 Georgia; offstage rape/murder, mature themes
Length TBD

AGES 16+

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Surreal comic drama about life, war and being stuck in the zoo; profanity, cruelty, violence, sexuality, mature themes; parents strongly cautioned
1 hour 50 minutes; one intermission

Dame Edna: My First Last Tour

Mature and bawdy humor at the expense of your fellow audience members
90 minutes; no intermission

Oleanna

Mamet explores power dynamics between teacher and student; profanity, mature themes
Length TBD

August: Osage County 
Frank family melodrama laced with bitter comedy; sexuality, profanity, mature themes
3 hours 20 minutes; two intermissions

Palestine, NM
New offering from the subversive minds of Culture Clash; likely to contain profanity, mature themes
Length TBD

 

2010

AGES 11+ (PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED)

Dreamgirls

Tumultuous rise of a ’60s girl group; suggestive songs, mature themes
Length TBD

South Pacific

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical about race, class and love during wartime; mature themes
2 hours 50 minutes; one intermission

 

Photo Credit

L to R: Matthew Yang King and Damian D. Lewis in "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings."
Photo by Craig Schwartz.

Inset: Jamey Hood in "The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip."
Photo by Craig Schwartz.