July 25 - 28, 2024

A lively adaptation of the beloved 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo, with new music by award-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Marlin, an anxious and over-protective clownfish, lives in the Great Barrier Reef with his kid Nemo, who longs to explore the world beyond their anemone home. But when Nemo is captured and taken to Sydney, Marlin faces his fears and sets off on an epic adventure across the ocean. With the help of lovable characters such as optimistic Dory, laid-back sea turtle Crush, and the supportive Tank Gang, Marlin and Nemo both overcome challenges on their journey to find each other and themselves.

Featuring memorable songs such as “Just Keep Swimming,” “Fish Are Friends Not Food,” and “Go With the Flow,” Finding Nemo JR. brings a vibrant underwater world to life on stage in a story full of family, friendship, and adventure. 

Did you know that the Greenville Cemetery has gravestones dating back to the early 1830s? We have ancestors buried there who lived within a generation of the American Revolution!

Talented DCS actors will portray impactful and fascinating figures buried in the Greenville Cemetery and other cemeteries around the community. This year’s stories will be announced on the DCS website in the fall. DCS has deliberately scheduled this event for Delta Hot Tamale Festival weekend to add to the menu of attractions on one of our biggest annual weekends for out-of-town visitors. For safety, tours will be conducted in late afternoon and early evening and will conclude before dark each day.

December 5 - 8, 2024

The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world – so when they crash Sunday school and demand parts in the Christmas pageant, the whole town panics. There’s not supposed to be biting or cigar-smoking in Bethlehem, and while these kids have never even heard the Christmas story, they definitely have rewrites! Soon, everyone is calling for reluctant director Grace Bradley to cancel the whole thing. It’s up to the Bradleys and the Reverend to help their community see the Christmas story and the Herdman kids through new eyes in this buoyant musical adaptation of the funny and touching holiday classic.

“In our 75 years, this title is our #1 top-selling show of all time!”

Adam Burke, Artistic Director
Children’s Theatre of Charlotte

February 20 – 23, 2025

A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, featuring an original story that is every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

The Addams Family has a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (librettists of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys), and music and lyrics by Drama Desk Award winner Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party).

May 1 - 4, 2025

From one of America’s greatest playwrights, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama examines a family’s struggle to claim it’s legacy in a hostile world. It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell a piano that has great importance to his family, but he shares ownership with his sister Berniece, and the piano sits in her living room. Berniece has already rejected several offers, because the antique piano is covered with beautiful carvings detailing the family’s rise from slavery. Boy Willie argues that the past is past, but Berniece proves to be more formidable than he anticipated.

“Whether or not to preserve the legacy of the past, however horrific, is the compelling theme of this elemental drama which showcases Wilson’s prodigious gifts for poetical dialogue and richly drawn characterizations. It’s filled with emotionally resonant moments…”
Frank Scheck, New York Stage Review

June 26 - 29, 2025

Our production of this beloved play will feature Sonya and Tim Bixler as Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory — but still tart-tongued and as observant as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched their long life together. Their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her fiancé briefly visit, then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about teenagers in return. As the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together. Time, they know, is against them, but the years have been good and perhaps another summer on Golden Pond awaits.

“On Golden Pond is a work of rare simplicity and beauty, and in Thompson our theatre has found a fresh new voice.” — New York Daily News