Update (April 23, 2026):
Grand OnStage’s 2025-26 School Season has wrapped up- thank you for all your support!
Stay tuned for details on the extraordinary performances lined up for 2026-27.
"Grand OnStage education performance seasons are typically a sold-out, smash success with over 7,000 students and teachers attending performances at Kingston Grand Theatre. We look forward to announcing our brand new season of school shows."
-- Jayson Duggan, Performing Arts Manager
Grand OnStage 2025-26 Education Performances
Click on the show title below to learn more about each performance. All tickets remain $8! (Please note: group orders are subject to a handling fee of $16.95).
Where Have All The Buffalo Gone? - This performance has passed.
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025 - 10:30 am
Grades: Grades 4+
Curriculum Connections: Indigenous Studies, Storytelling, Social Studies, Music, Drama, Dance
Pinkalicious: The Musical - This performance has passed.
Date: Monday, November 3, 2025 - 10:30 am
Grades: Pre-school - Grade 2
Curriculum Connections: Dance, Drama, Music, Visual Arts
Literary Link: Based on the book by Elizabeth Kann & Victoria Kann
Billy Goats Gruff and Other Tales - This performance has passed.
Date: Monday, November 17, 2025 - 10:30 am & 1 pm
Grades: JK - Grade 2
Curriculum Connections: Puppetry, Visual Art, Fairy Tales, Repetition, Rhyming, Rhythmic Patterns
Literary Link: Billy Goats Gruff is based on the book by Bill Carr & Jim Morrow, adapted from the fairy tale by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. Goldilocks and the Three Bears is based on the English fairy tale by Robert Southey, and The Three Little Pigs is based on English fairy tale by Joseph Jacobs.
Shaun Boothe – Live Your Legacy - This performance has passed.
Date: Monday, February 9, 2026 - 10:30 am
Grades: Grades 5+
Curriculum Connections: Leadership & Identity, Diversity & Black History Month, Human Rights/Social Justice/Art & Activism, Decision Making & Goal Setting, Careers & Finding Your Purpose/Passion
Doktor Kaboom – Under Pressure! - This performance has passed.
Commissioned by the Kennedy Center
Date: Monday, February 23, 2026 - 10:30 am & 1 pm
Grades: 3-6
Curriculum Connections: Knowledge and life lessons unfold through interactive dialogue, character-driven comedy, live science demonstrations, and some live camera projections. The show demonstrates and explains the existence, types, and power of physical pressures in the scientific world, and correlates them as metaphors for real-world pressures of life. Lessons in recognizing and mitigating stress.
Dino-Light - This performance has passed.
Date: Monday, April 13, 2026 - 10:30 am & 1 pm
Grades: K - Grade 5
Curriculum Connections: Creativity, Drama, Music, Imaginative Play, Personal & Social Development, Technology
Special thanks to the Britton Smith Foundation for supporting Grand OnStage School Performances.