Family

SEPTEMBER

17: “We Tell Stories: In the Village of Liver and Onions,” McKinney Theatre, Saddleback College.

17: “Kids Koncerts: Dave Kinnoin,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

24: “Fourth Annual Marcia Berman Family Sing-Along,” California Plaza.

24: “The Johnny Mercer Foundation Family Music Days: New Twist on Ancient Music,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

24: “Kids Koncerts: Hap Palmer,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

27: “Singin’ Rhyme-Time With Jack Prelutsky,” Storyopolis.

30-Oct. 1: “The Wizard of Oz” and “Carnival of the Animals,” Ballet Pacifica, Festival Forum Theatre.

OCTOBER

6-15: “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” Studio Theatre, Saddleback College.

7: “Monster Mask-Making Craft & Creepy Poetry With the Mind-Stretch Theatre Troupe,” Storyopolis.

7-Nov. 18: “Treasure Island,” Granada Children’s Theatre.

7-Jan. 28: “A Hansel and Gretel Halloween,” Santa Monica Playhouse.

7-Feb. 25: “Jack and the Beanstalk,” Storybook Theatre at Theatre West.

13-22: “East of the Sun, West of the Moon,” Laguna Playhouse Youth Theatre, Moulton Theatre.

14: “Norman Foote in Concert,” Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

14: “Jack O’Lantern Jamboree,” Storyopolis.

14: “Family Festival,” Getty Center, Museum Courtyard.

14: “Cinderella,” Tears of Joy Theatre at Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University.

15: “John Lithgow: Farkle & Friends,” UCLA, Royce Hall.

15: “Falling Up: An Autumn Storytelling Extravaganza,” Every Picture Tells a Story.

20: “Jim Gamble Marionettes’ Hansel and Gretel,” Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

21: “The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip,” Storyopolis.

22: “Amelia Bedelia & Other Stories,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach.

27: “Third Annual Halloween Party,” Every Picture Tells a Story.

29: “Beauty & the Beast,” Southern California Children’s Theatre, Fred Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

NOVEMBER

3-5: “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” Young Artists Ensemble, Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

4-18: “Just So Stories,” Backlot Theatre, Gold Coast Center for the Arts.

5: “The Gizmo Guys,” Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach.

5: “Together at MOCA,” and “The Concoction Box,” MOCA at California Plaza.

10: “Circle Cycle,” Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company of Utah, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

11: “East West Players’ Asian Pacific Tales,” Wells Fargo Theater, Autry Museum of Western Heritage.

11: “Izzi Tooinsky: It’s OK to Be Different,” Oak Grove Pavilion.

11-Jan. 29: “Holiday Spectacular,” Bob Baker Marionette Theatre.

12: “Ted Jacobs & Friends in Concert,” Every Picture Tells a Story.

19: “Anna’s Garden,” Ensemble Galilei, UCLA, Schoenberg Hall.

19: “Jim Gamble Puppets in Hansel and Gretel,” McKinney Theatre, Saddleback College.

19-20: “Parachute Express in Concert,” Alex Theatre.

19-31: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” Old Globe Theatre.

24-Indefinitely: “Glad to Be Unhappy: The Lyrical Life of Lorenz Hart,” Theatre West.

28-Dec. 3: “Annie,” Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

DECEMBER

1-30: “Too Many Tamales,” Bilingual Foundation of the Arts.

2: “Bother!,” Every Picture Tells a Story.

2-16: “Gift Rap,” Backlot Theatre, Gold Coast Center for the Arts.

3: “Tickle Tune Typhoon’s Keep the Spirit Holiday Show,” Ventura High Auditorium.

7-8: “Jim Gamble Puppets in The Night Bearfore Christmas,” Scherr Forum Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

8: “David Novak, A Storyteller’s Christmas Carol,” Ojai Arts Center.

8-17: “Babes in Toyland,” Laguna Playhouse Youth Theatre, Moulton Theatre.

9: “Jim Gamble Puppets in “‘The Nutcracker,”’ Victor Valley College Performing Arts Center.

10: “Alex Christmas Show,” Alex Theatre.

10-24: “La Posada Magica,” South Coast Repertory.