Bring Your Class to a Show

Join us for our specially priced school-day performances at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts! All titles are appropriate for all ages.

Our MainStage musicals are professionally designed productions performed by large casts of youth actors ages 5-18. They are performed on the MainStage at the MVCPA in a theater that seats nearly 600 people.

Our Stories on Stage plays bring beloved children’s stories to live each month of the school year. Each show includes a small cast of 6-15 actors ages 12 and up. These shows are ideal for younger grades as they only last about an hour, including a “talk-back” session with the cast after each performance to ask questions about the play and their experience as actors. The plays are performed in the intimate black-box setting of the SecondStage at the MVCPA which seats approximately 160 people.

School Group Pricing (groups of 10+):

  • MainStage: $10/person
  • Stories on Stage: $7/person

TO ORDER TICKETS: Contact Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts ticketing office at (650) 903-6000 or performingarts@mvcpa.com. Please provide the show title, date, and number of tickets you’d like to reserve. Please also share your school name, address, telephone #, and how you will arrive to MVCPA (bus, carpool, walk, VTA). Availability information below is accurate as of October 16, 2025.

Refund Policy: All ticket sales are final. Refunds will only be issued if an event is canceled. Exchanges may be made between PYT performances of the same title upon availability.

MainStage Musicals

Newsies

Enjoy the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged “newsies” in turn-of-the-century New York City. When titans of publishing raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack rallies newsies from across the city to strike against the unfair conditions and fight for what’s right! Book by Harvey Fierstein. Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Jack Feldman. Book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on the Disney Film written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White.

  • Dates: Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20
  • Time: 9:30am
  • Show length: 2.5 hours, including 1 15 minute intermission
  • Recommended for ages 8+ due to mild violence and language

Stories on Stage

The Adventures of Pinocchio LIMITED AVAILABILITY

A world-premiere adaptation by Karen Simpson of the adventures of Pinocchio specifically for PYT’s “Stories on Stage” program. Expect to meet familiar characters such as Geppetto, a talking Cricket, a mischievous Cat, and a friendly Fairy. Based on the story and characters of Carlo Collodi.

  • Date: Friday, January 16, 2026
  • Times: 9:30am VERY LIMITED, 11am SOLD OUT, & 12:30pm SOLD OUT
  • Show length: 1 hour including a “talk-back” with the cast directly after the performance, no intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale

The beautiful Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha doesn’t know anything about love and marriage, so when suitors come calling, what is she to do? Luckily, she has her family to help! While some of the Cucarachas offer Martina gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her some useful advice: spill coffee on his shoes to see how he handles anger. At first, Martina is skeptical of Abuela’s suggestion, but when suitor after suitor fails the Coffee Test, she wonders if a little green cockroach can ever find true love.

  • Date: Friday, February 13, 2026
  • Times: 9:30am SOLD OUT, 11am, & 12:30pm
  • Show length: 1 hour including a “talk-back” with the cast directly after the performance, no intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages

Hansel & Gretel LIMITED AVAILABILITY

A world-premiere modernized adaptation by Karen Simpson of the story of two lost siblings specifically for PYT’s “Stories on Stage” program. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm of a brother and sister abandoned in a forest who fall into the hands of a witch with an edible house.

  • Date: Friday, April 24, 2026
  • Times: 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm ALL LIMITED
  • Show length: 1 hour including a “talk-back” with the cast directly after the performance, no intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages

Dragons Love Tacos SOLD OUT

Dragons LOVE tacos, so if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Unfortunately, where there are tacos, there is also salsa. And if a dragon accidentally eats spicy salsa, you’re in red-hot trouble!

  • Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
  • Times: 9:30am, 11am, & 12:30pm ALL SOLD OUT
  • Show length: 1 hour including a “talk-back” with the cast directly after the performance, no intermission
  • Appropriate for all ages
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