The Old Brick Playhouse Touring Company specializes in providing entertaining and educational programs for children and youth. We're in our 15th season of touring original musical comedies to a cumulative audience of over 1.5 million students in elementary schools in the mid-Atlantic region and overseas.

The Old Brick’s madcap style integrates singing, dancing, juggling, acrobatics, and magic tricks with topical messages and guidance for children. We have worked with Young Audiences of Virginia for five years touring our original comedy, A Garden Fable, The Groovy Moving Show, advocating social and cultural tolerance. Our productions have received honors at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and have been showcased in The National Theatre in Washington, DC.

Take a look at the Touring Flier.

• Felix Says No! A Zoo Show—focuses on Responsibiity
• The Groovy Moving Show—focuses on Cultural and Social Tolerance
• Whimsy Quest—focuses on Tobacco Use Prevention

The West Virginia Division of Culture and History (WVDCH) announces the Touring Program, a grant-free pilot program available through the West Virginia Commission on the Arts (WVCA) that subsidizes select artist visits to schools in West Virginia. Here's how it works:

• Schools contact the approved artist directly to book a program.
• A contract is developed by the artist.
• The artist presents the program.
• The school pays the artist their portion of the artist fee (as per the agreement).
  • Schools in distressed counties pay 25% of the artist fees (WVDCH/WVCA funds 75% of the artist’s fees)
  • Schools in non-distressed counties pay 50% (WVDCH/WVCA funds 50% of the artist’s fees)
• On the date of the performance, the school fills out an evaluation form by hand and returns it to the artist.
• That’s it! No grant writing necessary!

The goal of the Touring Program is to encourage deeper arts experiences by facilitating the ease of taking art into West Virginia’s communities with an emphasis on serving distressed counties. This program was created based on feedback received from teachers, administrators, and artists regarding our current Mini Grant program. The participating artists were selected because of their active participation in the Mini Grant program as well as their commitment for bringing quality arts programming to young audiences.