Fred Rogers News

Check out over 80 events that are happening in the Philadelphia area.  From food and fun to entertainment, there’s something for everyone!

Craft Recordings announces today's release of Nursery Rhymes for Kinder Times, a brand-new album from the world-renowned children's entertainer, Raffi, and the award-winning singer and songwriter, Lindsay Munroe.

Following the hugely successful 2019 tour that traveled to more than 50 neighborhoods, Daniel Tiger and all his friends from the beloved Emmy Award-winning PBS KIDS television series are hopping back aboard Trolley for Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Live: Neighbor Day.

New episodes of Alma’s Way, the latest standout animated series from Fred Rogers Productions, are coming down the 6 train track onto PBS KIDS the week of May 2 with a very special guest star: series creator Sonia Manzano herself!

“The Most Anticipated Production of 2022” (BroadwayWorld Readers’ Poll, 2021) just announced their cast. The Boys in the Band, Mart Crowley’s American classic, will begin previews June 16 at the historic Fred Rogers Studio at WQED in an exciting new production by PICT Classic Theatre.

The National Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Steven Reineke, and Artistic Advisor Ben Folds welcome legendary actor, musician, activist, and recent space traveler William Shatner as the featured guest artist for its upcoming DECLASSIFIED: BEN FOLDS PRESENTS concert on Friday, April 29 at 9 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

Sinking Ship Entertainment announced today that Season One of Odd Squad, the Emmy Award-winning series from SSE and Fred Rogers Productions has been acquired by France Télévisions for the French-territory. Season One of Odd Squad will be launching on Saturday, March 26th both online on the Okoo platform and on-air on France 4 every Saturday at 4:50pm and weekdays at 7:50pm. 

Violin, dance, opera singers and the sounds of Nina Simone are just a few possible experiences you can have at one time at The Blue Building.

As the title suggests, this imaginative collection of songs offers a fresh, whimsical, and tender take on classic nursery rhymes, including “Three Blind Mice” (re-imagined as “Three Kind Mice”), “Ring Around the Rosie” (“Ring Around Sweet Roses”), and “London Bridge Is Falling Down” (“London Rain Is Falling Down”).

Society for the Performing Arts will present “Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood LIVE: Neighbor Day” on Sunday, April 10, 2022, at 5:30 PM in Jones Hall. Kids (and parents) will learn about imagination, self-esteem, and empathy through super fun strategy songs, relatable situations, and teamwork.

Birthday Candles begins previews tonight, March 18, ahead of its official opening on April 10 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). Meet the cast bringing this show to the stage!

This national tour at Chicago's Cadillac Palace gives us a show that is just as heartwarming as it is sobering, reminding us that we belong to each other.

Plus, multiple GRAMMY® & Dove award winning singer Sandi Patty and David Newell (aka Mister McFeely) have also called for top songwriters honors for Fred Rogers. Better known as Mister Rogers from the hit PBS children’s television show series Mister Rogers Neighborhood, Fred Rogers wrote over 200 songs that reached millions of children and parents.

“Won't you ride along with me?” Daniel Tiger and all his friends from the beloved Emmy Award-winning PBS KIDS television series are hopping back aboard Trolley for DANIEL TIGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD LIVE! coming to The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts on January 21, 2022 at 6:30 PM.

Odd Squad is a live-action comedy about kid agents who are equipped with the world’s most advanced and unpredictable gadgetry. Whenever something strange, weird or unusually odd happens, it’s Odd Squad’s job to put things right by using math to solve odd problems. Odd Squad was created by Tim McKeon and Adam Peltzman.

On Saturday, October 30, PICT Classic Theatre will present their first live, in-person performance following the COVID-19 shutdown: William Shakespeare's As You Like It. PICT's first show of its 25th Anniversary Season returns to the company to their home in the Fred Rogers Studio at WQED October 30- November 20, 2021.

The live performance of “Come From Away' was filmed at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre this past May in New York City, where the Broadway production is staged, for an audience that included 9/11 survivors and front-line workers; and, employed over 200 people including members of the Broadway crew, staff and creative teams.

Opening up about her first live performance since the COVID pandemic began, this performer shares her joy in welcoming enthusiastic audiences back to the theatre, and says if people didn't know it pre pandemic, they certainly know it now - 'life without the arts is not living.'

ALMA’S WAY, a new animated series from Fred Rogers Productions, will premiere October 4, 2021. Listen to the theme song here.

Winners were announced for the 24th Family Film Awards in a broadcast airing this evening on REELZ. Honoring the best in family film and television,