Welcome to Enchantment Theatre Company!
Enchantment Theatre Company has created original theatre for young audiences and families for
more than 35 years—imaginative productions of new and classic fables, myths, and legends.
With expressive masks, life-sized puppets, magical illusion, music, movement, and pantomime
ETC inspires, challenges, and enriches our audience— onstage, in the classroom, and in the
community.
Mommy’s Khimar will tour to schools, libraries and theatres this Spring of 2025 from May 6th-June 13th. Click the link below and get your tickets to this beautiful show now!
Thank you to our supporters!
We at Enchantment feel incredibly lucky to have the foundational and governmental support to bring the arts to children and families across Philadelphia and the country. Thank you to the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts for your support over the years, and specifically for your support in maintaining and expanding our Enchantment Everywhere initiative!
Up Next With Enchantment!
Mommy’s Khimar
After a successful premiere and run in December of 2024, we are thrilled to be bringing Mommy’s Khimar back for the Spring of 2025, running from May 6th – June 13th!
The story of Mommy’s Khimar is a simple one. A young Muslim girl takes one of her mother’s headscarves or khimars, and with the power of her imagination, uses the Khimar to dream about what she may become. Her sense of wonder and her belief that ‘anything is possible’ are the driving forces in the narrative, and building on her playful inventiveness, we will expand the story into a journey of self-discovery and self-actualization – elements that are quintessential to any Enchantment production. Using the art of movement and dance, music, masks and puppets, we will create the world of Mommy’s Khimar and immerse our audiences in the imagination of our main character.
Mommy’s Khimar will be the next in a series of original Enchantment shows that we have created under the title of ‘Enchantment Everywhere’ – a program we created in response to the shrinking arts budgets of schools in Philadelphia. The performance will be around 35 minutes long, the program will include a 15-minute talk back session, and the show will be fully produced, with original music, masks, puppets, costumes, set and lighting, all designed by professional Philadelphia-based artists. All of this will be packed into a van by our five actors and stage manager, and driven to schools all over the greater Philadelphia area, to be performed in auditoriums, classrooms, lobbies, hallways, and even outdoors. As is indicated by the name of the program – Enchantment Everywhere – we will bring this high-quality performance anywhere there are children and families.
To book a performance for Mommy’s Khimar at your school or venue, contact our Enchantment Everywhere Director, Eleni Delopoulos at eleni@enchantmenttheatre.org!
Mommy’s Khimar Gallery
Scheherazade
We are so excited to be bringing our classic Symphony performance of Scheherazade back to audiences with the Cleveland Orchestra. We have collaborated with these world class musicians several times in the past, and we will be performing with them in their home location in Cleveland, as well as in Miami, FL at the end of April!
Recent Onstage Adventures
The Brave Little Tailor
Our fabulous production of The Brave Little Tailor toured to schools and community venues throughout Philadelphia this coming spring! Here is a trailer and our newest production shots from that run!
ETC is Philadelphia’s Premiere Children’s Theatre
In my 15 years of teaching, this has to be one of the best assemblies we’ve ever had! My students were sharing their thoughts and opinions well through the day – even during lunch period with OTHER students from OTHER classes!
J. Hampton Moore Elementary
