We Tell Stories
To schedule a performance with this artist, please fill out our booking form below.
Performance Prices
One Performance = $1,175
Two Performances = $1,550
Three Performances = $1,800
Four Performances = $2,425
Capacity = 500
About We Tell Stories
This masterful group of theatre artists, founded in 1981 by children's theatre innovator Carl Weintraub, uses a unique blend of storytelling, audience participation, and sometimes original music to bring folklore, literature, and mythology from all cultures and eras to life. An old trunk filled with homemade props and costumes serves as the vehicle through which sets and characters are created, with ordinary objects transforming to support extraordinary stories. Humor and fantasy enthrall as stories of honesty, friendship, self-esteem and more enlighten all audiences. The professional artists who make up the company of We Tell Stories handle audiences of all age ranges with ease, and consistently deliver first-rate, mad-cap performances with joy and enthusiasm. Whether the viewer is young or simply young at heart, We Tell Stories is sure to capture, entertain and educate.
We Tell Stories offers seven different performances:
Proud To Be Me
Age level: Grades K-8
This performance is a multicultural storytelling experience exploring the concept of pride in oneself through three different stories from three different cultures.
Cuentos de la Familia
Age level: Grades K-5
Cuentos de la Familia ("Stories of the Family") celebrates the importance of family values through a collection of Latino folktales.
Earth Tales
Age level: Grades K-5
Earth Tales explores the relationship between Mother Earth and her children.
Feast from the East
Age level: Grades K-5
This performance explores the wisdom and beauty of Asian cultures through folktales from Asia and the Middle East.
Let Them Eat Books
Age level: Grades K-12
Stories and poems by great literary authors such as Sandburg, Carroll, Twain and Thurber come to life in Let Them Eat Books.
Spirit of Black Folklore
Age level: Grades K-8
This performance explores the pride of heritage and a willingness to laugh despite the odds using folktales and literature from African and African American cultures.
The Season of Giving
Age level: Grades K-8
Features a performance celebrating the holidays of winter.
Booking Information
Contact us at (213) 972-4310 or performingartists@musiccenter.org to book this artist.
Prices good until June 30, 2023. Prices are for assemblies in schools during regular school hours. Performances outside these parameters may incur an additional fee. Grant funding for schools may be available to offset assembly prices. Contact us for further information.