Memphis Children’s Theatre Festival 2025

Oct 11, 2025
10:00 AM
4:00 PM
Pay what you can / FREE.

The 2025 Memphis Children’s Theatre Festival will be a community celebration of family- and youth-focused performances that is sure to entertain and delight all who are in attendance. This year we are expanding with even more performances and opportunities to explore theatre, music, art, dance and MORE!

The founding mission of the festival, created by Voices of the South in the mid 1990’s, was to create a safe, educational, affordable, and exciting atmosphere in which children and families can attend innovative theatre and participate in arts-oriented activities that foster imagination.

The children’s festival introduces and fosters relationships and experiences with the entire arts community in Shelby county and beyond. MCTF25 will represent individual artists from the Mid South including individual artists, arts organizations, local schools and children’s performing arts groups all while promoting arts awareness as a step in helping to build a stronger, more invigorated community by sharing the beauty of art with children and families. 

Would you like to receive updates and reminders about MCTF25? Sign-up for our save the date!

If you or someone you know would like to perform, teach a workshop, host a demonstration, or set up a booth to promote your arts organization, CLICK HERE to fill out an interest form and the Outreach and Education team will follow up with you!

Admission:

Pay what you can / FREE.
When
Oct 11, 2025
10:00 AM
4:00 PM
Where
Theatre Memphis
630 Perkins Extd
Memphis, TN 38117 / Overflow parking is encouraged in the Cancer Survivor Park parking lot opposite our Perkins Road entrance.
Performance Groups
Opera Memphis
Germantown Community Theatre
MYSP - Memphis Youth Symphony Program
Ballet Memphis
Cazateatro
Journey Coleman
Kooler Kids
Memphis Jazz Workshop
Novel
Playhouse on the Square
Tennessee Shakespeare Company
Children's Ballet Theater
Classical Melodies, Inc.
Company D
High Expectations
M Town Image
Memphis Symphony Orchestra
YAG - Young Actors Guild
Kids on the Block
Music Box
New Ballet
New Spark Performing Arts
Overton High School
White Station Middle School
Andrew Best
Aunt Blanche's Story Corner
Nubian Sirens
Wizard of Ahhhs
Vendors
Orpheum Theatre Group
Theatre Memphis
Playhouse on the Square
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Ballet Memphis
Cazateatro
Germantown Community Theatre
Kooler Kids
Memphis Youth Symphony
Metal Museum
Novel
Opera Memphis
Tennessee Shakespeare Company
Children's Ballet Theatre
Classical Melodies, Inc.
Journey Coleman
Krissy's Coloring
M Town Image
Firefly Creative
New Ballet
Music Box
Food Trucks
Good Groceries
Sno Me Something

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Seats up to 411

Both the Lohrey Theatre and the Next Stage Theatre are wheelchair accessible with a handicapped accessible restroom on the same level as the main lobby to both venues. The Lohrey Theatre also provides hearing assisted equipment to any who may require or request it, at no charge.

Lohrey Theatre Seating Chart

(Next Stage is open seating)

Next Stage

Seats up to 110

The black box Next Stage seats up to 110 and is also wheelchair accessible with state of the art equipment for sound and lighting.