Chicago Children’s Theatre, the city’s first and largest professional theater devoted to young audiences, will kick off its 2025-26, 20th anniversary season with Leo Lionni’s Frederick, a playful, ...

Synchronicity Theatre’s production of FREDERICK, adapted by Suzanne Maynard Miller and directed by Julie Skrzypek, is an imaginative children's musical based on Leo Lionni’s beloved classic story that ...

Frederick the field mouse sat on the old stone wall while his four brothers gathered food the approaching winter days. The others mice felt that Frederick was not doing his share of the work, but when ...

The ensemble of Frederick at Chicago Children's Theatre Credit: Joe Mazza/Brave Lux Why are stories about the changing seasons so effective in children’s theater? Is it because kids haven’t lost the ...