Fred Rogers News

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,

Premiering on Saturday, March 20th at 10am CT, Tom Bergeron (America’s Funniest Videos, Dancing with the Stars) will host a special virtual presentation of “Happy Birthday, Mister Rogers,” to commemorate America’s favorite neighbor, Fred Rogers’ 93rd birthday.

In February, PBT premiered live performances of “Boléro,” featuring new choreography from Artistic Director Susan Jaffe, to limited audiences in Carnegie Museum of Art's Hall of Sculpture.

This COVID-19 crisis has given us a lot of scary news, and a lot of ways to look for the helpers. Home Less, Open Book Theatre’s newest virtual play online Thursdays and Mondays Jan 7 – Jan 25, focuses on one such helper and invites us to think more deeply not only about the people who need help, but also on the needs, joys, and sacrifices of the helpers.

PBS KIDS today announced ALMA’S WAY, a new animated series from Fred Rogers Productions.

Today, PBS KIDS announced a new special, “PBS KIDS Talk About: Race and Racism,” premiering October 9. 

This fall, kids across the country can tune in to their favorite PBS KIDS series in an exciting new way with three fun and educational podcasts that will take young listeners beyond the screen.

Today, PBS KIDS announced a new special, “PBS KIDS Talk About: Race and Racism,” premiering October 9.