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Student Ticket Program

We encourage teachers to bring their students to see a show at the Shubert and enjoy the magic of live performance!

FREE Virtual Show for CT Schools

JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM

Links available January 26 through February 6, 2026

Suggested for grades 3rd-8th

10 year old Jabari loves to paint. And through his art, he escapes the turbulent world around him and the reality of a friend hurt by police violence. In his dreams, he meets children and young people from the Civil Rights Era, including Ruby Bridges, Claudette Colvin, and others, who teach him how to be fearless. He also meets his hero, Barack Obama, as a 7 year old boy on the eve of the assassination of MLK, Jr...

Will Jabari be able to instill in 7 year old Barack the lessons he's learned and therefore ensure that Barack will have the necessary tools to become president? Will Jabari learn to take these lessons back into his own life and heal his community? Using rap, freedom songs, history, and humor, this play explores what it means to have courage in a world where Black children, Black boys, are not safe.

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THE MERMAID WORKSHOP

Links available January 26 through February 6, 2026

Suggested for grades pre-K through 3rd

An activity-driven series that shows children how to create their own puppets from simple resources found around the classroom or home through step-by-step guided instruction. The series is entertaining, fun and educational.

The Mermaid Workshop includes 10 videos some of which teach children how to create puppets they see in the Puppets in Paper series. Teachers will receive a guide explaining each workshop and what supplies are needed for students to make puppets on their own.

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Free Student Matinees for K-8 New Haven Title I Schools

STUNTBOY, IN THE MEANTIME

Monday, March 2, 2026

10:30am

Grades 2-5

Run time: 60 minutes

Stuntboy, In the Meantime follows the middle-schooler, Portico Reeves whose superpower is making sure his parents and best friend, Zola stay safe. He lives in the biggest apartment building on the block, a building with fifty doors, all of which would be swell except for the secret that Portico’s parents are about to divorce. All this stress gives Portico “the frets”, which his mom calls anxiety. Plus, like all superheroes, Portico has an arch-nemesis Herbert determined to prove that there is nothing super about Portico at all.

Stuntboy, In the Meantime is based on Jason Reynolds' and Raúl the Third’s award-winning graphic novel of the same name.

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MILES DAVIS AND THE BLUE FLAME INCIDENT

Friday, March 13, 2026

10:30am

Grades 6-8

Run time: 60 minutes

This exciting, all-new live multi-media program celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of the iconic trumpeter, bandleader and cultural provocateur, Miles Davis. The program traverses Davis' extensive career and features music from some of his most creatively fertile periods of his career, including his controversial divergence into electric music in the late 1960's.

Using both, jazz history and 20th century American history as a backdrop, Miles Davis and the Blue Flame Incident (which alludes to one of Davis' earliest childhood memories) will engage, inform and enlighten student audiences about one of the most compelling, infinitely creative and trailblazing artists the world has ever known.

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