The next month brings a fresh crop of kids' plans, and this list keeps up on its own. Children's theater and puppet shows, museum workshops, holiday markets and festivals, all picked for families and sorted by what's coming up first. Check back each week: new shows land and finished ones drop off.
Circo Mundial has been on the road since 1968, and this stop brings its circus show to Katerini. Kids watch a run of live acts, one after another.
The show carries itself without words, so it works for kids who speak no Greek. It suits families in and around Katerini; from Athens it is a long trip for one show.
KIDOT is a children's festival in Gazi, held at the old OSY depot on the corner of Ermou and Pireos.
It suits families who want a full day out, with the option of a second day if the kids want to go back.
Karagiozis is the much-loved hero of Greek shadow theater. Haris Psyllas, one of the younger Karagiozis puppeteers carrying on the tradition, writes, directs and performs the show himself.
Each Sunday brings a different story, from a mystery about a trunk to Alexander the Great and a cursed snake. It's performed in Greek, so it best suits kids who follow the language.
The myth of Icarus meets science fiction. In the future, Earth is running out of air and people are split between those under a protective dome and those left outside. A scientist builds Icarus, an android sent to a distant planet, who discovers something just before launch.
Two actors play it as fast, high-energy physical theater with songs and moments where kids join in. It is played in Greek.
A hands-on workshop at Tetragono art space in Agia Paraskevi where kids build a Mycenaean megaron, the palace hall of ancient Mycenae.
It suits school-age kids who are curious about ancient Greece and like making things with their hands more than listening to a talk.
A Greek-language musical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, full of hope, songs, humor and Christmas magic. Young Lizia grows up in a hard world but keeps searching for warmth and love, and along the way she meets Lucien, a boy full of dreams, a couple who believe in miracles and a wise grandfather.
It suits kids who follow spoken and sung Greek and can sit through long shows.
A musical stage version of Maya the Bee, performed in Greek. Maya longs for adventure outside the hive, and while trying to talk her best friend Willy into coming along, she breaks the hive by accident. With help from Flip the grasshopper, Ben the beetle and Beatrice the butterfly, they set out to fix it before the other bees return.
It suits preschool and early primary kids who follow Greek.
Blue blue blue is a short opera made for the very youngest, staged as part of the Maria Callas Museum's family program.
It suits toddlers rather than older kids used to full-length shows.
Christmas BOOM Village is a children's Christmas festival at Anassa City Events, the event space in Goudi.
The ticket shop files it under kids' festivals, so it suits families looking for a Christmas outing built around children rather than a seated show for adults.
A stage musical of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The grumpy green Grinch hates the lights, the gifts and the happy voices of Christmas, and plots to make it vanish for good, until a meeting with little Cindy Lou changes everything.
It's a big family show with a message kids get: happiness comes from people, not presents. Songs and dialogue are in Greek.
A game-based art and nature workshop for kindergartners and first graders, built around the world of painter Alekos Fassianos. Kids step into the courtyard of his childhood home, where the mice that burrowed under the old house have hidden his memories, and follow them into the small world of insects and plants. Along the way they pick up the basics of nature and the cycle of life.
Circo Bonaccini, an Italian circus company, brings Around the World to Alimos: a family circus show themed as a trip across the globe.
It suits families who want a classic night (or Sunday morning) at the circus, and kids who can sit through a full live show.
An interactive exhibition about one feeling: anger. Kids and parents work through hands-on exhibits that show what anger does in the body, test different reactions through its characters, and look for what helps. The Emotions Museum, a listed house at the foot of Philopappou Hill, has a team of psychologists, educators and drama therapists. It suits kids with big tempers and parents who want a way to talk about them.
Pocket Opera & Ballet (Όπερα & Μπαλέτο Τσέπης) is the Greek National Opera's series of opera and ballet shows made for children.
It is performed in Greek, so it suits kids who follow the language best.
A girl and her ticket wait at a bus stop, and an ordinary wait turns into a trip full of surprises. A dancer and a multi-instrumentalist play with balls, veils, balloons and songs while babies and their grown-ups sit on cushions, watching, laughing and joining in. It was made as a first theater outing, by the team behind The Queen of Everything, the longest-running baby show in Athens.
A modern, funny take on Mary Shelley's story. Little Victor, great-great-great-grandson of Victor Frankenstein, tries to bring his toys to life so he can have a real friend, without thinking about what happens if it works. Three actors, live music, songs and video projections carry the mix-ups that follow. Under the jokes are questions about bullying, stereotypes and using AI responsibly. Performed in Greek.
A stage version of The Wizard of Oz, following Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion on their way to the Wizard. Three actors play it with live original music and songs, comedy and interactive video projections. The story leans on teamwork and finding the courage you already have. It is performed in Greek, so it suits kids who know the story or follow Greek.
A new take on Robin Hood from the National Theatre's children's stage. Robin is a young forest ranger who gets branded an outlaw for standing up to a profit-hungry Commissioner who wants to clear the woods for roads, factories and mines. He hides in the heart of the forest with a band of friends who decide to defend it. Songs, movement and movie-style stage fights carry the story.
A musical play by Maria Kilaidoni about Ririka, a bear cub spending her first birthday alone after moving to a new mountain. She heads to town for her favorite pistachio ice cream and meets her friends on the way: twin hedgehogs who make fireworks, a crocodile pastry chef, two lion musicians and a dancing kangaroo.
When the ice cream shop is closed, the friends have to save the day.
A Christmas stage show where Mickey and his friends board a Christmas train. Kids sit in the audience at the Avlaia Theater in Pasalimani, Piraeus, and watch the familiar characters on stage.
It suits preschoolers and early primary kids who know Mickey and his friends. Older kids may find it young.
Each winter Technopolis in Gazi turns into a Christmas village run by Santa and his elves. Kids move between hands-on workshops, a theater show and a fun park with slides, a carousel, bumper cars and an ice rink.
It is come-and-go, so it suits a few hours on a weekend afternoon. Younger kids head for the rides and lights; school-age kids get the most from the workshops and show.
Lalalilalo Christmas Surprise is a Christmas theater show made for toddlers and preschoolers. A cast performs it at Morfes Ekfrasis, a drama school.
The show is in Greek, so it suits kids who follow Greek. It is pitched at the very young, so older siblings in school may find it too babyish.
On New Year's Eve in the town of Doroupoli, the presents polish their wrapping for the biggest night of the year. Best friends Ribbon and Bow fly around the Earth and find it needs gifts no box can hold: water, trees, clean air. Three actors and an onstage pianist tell it with harmony singing and video projections, and the message is about sticking at it and caring for the planet.
A holiday play for kids built on the premise in its title: Christmas has been banned. It's a story-based show, so it suits kids who can follow a plot from start to finish, and it may lose toddlers along the way.
The MATICAPI company stages it at Arroyo Theater on Patision Street.
Alice on Ice is a Greek production of Alice in Wonderland, staged as an ice-skating show at the Ice 'n' Skate rink in Egaleo. Kids watch Alice's story told by a cast on skates.
It runs straight through with no break, which suits younger kids who can sit through a short show. It's performed in Greek, so kids who already know the story will follow it best.
A Christmas theater show for children, staged at the historic Olympia Theater in central Athens. Its Greek title is Ο Πλανήτης των Χριστουγεννιάτικων Δέντρων.
It's a seated, ticketed play, a good holiday outing for families whose kids enjoy sitting through a live show.
A Christmas stage show from the Sofi Koukouvagia company, inspired by Dickens' tale of the miser Scrooge. He meets the spirits of Christmas, travels into his past and future, gets moved and scared along the way, and ends up a kinder man.
It suits kids who can sit through a full-length play and follow Greek dialogue, and families after a holiday outing with a clear message about kindness and giving.
Maro and the Kalikantzaroi is a children's play from the Morfes Ekfrasis company, staged at a drama school over the winter holidays.
The show is performed in Greek, so it suits kids who follow spoken Greek. Children who don't may find the story hard to keep up with.
The next month brings a fresh crop of kids' plans, and this list keeps up on its own. Children's theater and puppet shows, museum workshops, holiday markets and festivals, all picked for families and sorted by what's coming up first. Check back each week: new shows land and finished ones drop off.
Circo Mundial has been on the road since 1968, and this stop brings its circus show to Katerini. Kids watch a run of live acts, one after another.
The show carries itself without words, so it works for kids who speak no Greek. It suits families in and around Katerini; from Athens it is a long trip for one show.
KIDOT is a children's festival in Gazi, held at the old OSY depot on the corner of Ermou and Pireos.
It suits families who want a full day out, with the option of a second day if the kids want to go back.
Karagiozis is the much-loved hero of Greek shadow theater. Haris Psyllas, one of the younger Karagiozis puppeteers carrying on the tradition, writes, directs and performs the show himself.
Each Sunday brings a different story, from a mystery about a trunk to Alexander the Great and a cursed snake. It's performed in Greek, so it best suits kids who follow the language.
The myth of Icarus meets science fiction. In the future, Earth is running out of air and people are split between those under a protective dome and those left outside. A scientist builds Icarus, an android sent to a distant planet, who discovers something just before launch.
Two actors play it as fast, high-energy physical theater with songs and moments where kids join in. It is played in Greek.
A hands-on workshop at Tetragono art space in Agia Paraskevi where kids build a Mycenaean megaron, the palace hall of ancient Mycenae.
It suits school-age kids who are curious about ancient Greece and like making things with their hands more than listening to a talk.
A Greek-language musical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, full of hope, songs, humor and Christmas magic. Young Lizia grows up in a hard world but keeps searching for warmth and love, and along the way she meets Lucien, a boy full of dreams, a couple who believe in miracles and a wise grandfather.
It suits kids who follow spoken and sung Greek and can sit through long shows.
A musical stage version of Maya the Bee, performed in Greek. Maya longs for adventure outside the hive, and while trying to talk her best friend Willy into coming along, she breaks the hive by accident. With help from Flip the grasshopper, Ben the beetle and Beatrice the butterfly, they set out to fix it before the other bees return.
It suits preschool and early primary kids who follow Greek.
Blue blue blue is a short opera made for the very youngest, staged as part of the Maria Callas Museum's family program.
It suits toddlers rather than older kids used to full-length shows.
Christmas BOOM Village is a children's Christmas festival at Anassa City Events, the event space in Goudi.
The ticket shop files it under kids' festivals, so it suits families looking for a Christmas outing built around children rather than a seated show for adults.
A stage musical of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The grumpy green Grinch hates the lights, the gifts and the happy voices of Christmas, and plots to make it vanish for good, until a meeting with little Cindy Lou changes everything.
It's a big family show with a message kids get: happiness comes from people, not presents. Songs and dialogue are in Greek.
A game-based art and nature workshop for kindergartners and first graders, built around the world of painter Alekos Fassianos. Kids step into the courtyard of his childhood home, where the mice that burrowed under the old house have hidden his memories, and follow them into the small world of insects and plants. Along the way they pick up the basics of nature and the cycle of life.
Circo Bonaccini, an Italian circus company, brings Around the World to Alimos: a family circus show themed as a trip across the globe.
It suits families who want a classic night (or Sunday morning) at the circus, and kids who can sit through a full live show.
An interactive exhibition about one feeling: anger. Kids and parents work through hands-on exhibits that show what anger does in the body, test different reactions through its characters, and look for what helps. The Emotions Museum, a listed house at the foot of Philopappou Hill, has a team of psychologists, educators and drama therapists. It suits kids with big tempers and parents who want a way to talk about them.
Pocket Opera & Ballet (Όπερα & Μπαλέτο Τσέπης) is the Greek National Opera's series of opera and ballet shows made for children.
It is performed in Greek, so it suits kids who follow the language best.
A girl and her ticket wait at a bus stop, and an ordinary wait turns into a trip full of surprises. A dancer and a multi-instrumentalist play with balls, veils, balloons and songs while babies and their grown-ups sit on cushions, watching, laughing and joining in. It was made as a first theater outing, by the team behind The Queen of Everything, the longest-running baby show in Athens.
A modern, funny take on Mary Shelley's story. Little Victor, great-great-great-grandson of Victor Frankenstein, tries to bring his toys to life so he can have a real friend, without thinking about what happens if it works. Three actors, live music, songs and video projections carry the mix-ups that follow. Under the jokes are questions about bullying, stereotypes and using AI responsibly. Performed in Greek.
A stage version of The Wizard of Oz, following Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion on their way to the Wizard. Three actors play it with live original music and songs, comedy and interactive video projections. The story leans on teamwork and finding the courage you already have. It is performed in Greek, so it suits kids who know the story or follow Greek.
A new take on Robin Hood from the National Theatre's children's stage. Robin is a young forest ranger who gets branded an outlaw for standing up to a profit-hungry Commissioner who wants to clear the woods for roads, factories and mines. He hides in the heart of the forest with a band of friends who decide to defend it. Songs, movement and movie-style stage fights carry the story.
A musical play by Maria Kilaidoni about Ririka, a bear cub spending her first birthday alone after moving to a new mountain. She heads to town for her favorite pistachio ice cream and meets her friends on the way: twin hedgehogs who make fireworks, a crocodile pastry chef, two lion musicians and a dancing kangaroo.
When the ice cream shop is closed, the friends have to save the day.
A Christmas stage show where Mickey and his friends board a Christmas train. Kids sit in the audience at the Avlaia Theater in Pasalimani, Piraeus, and watch the familiar characters on stage.
It suits preschoolers and early primary kids who know Mickey and his friends. Older kids may find it young.
Each winter Technopolis in Gazi turns into a Christmas village run by Santa and his elves. Kids move between hands-on workshops, a theater show and a fun park with slides, a carousel, bumper cars and an ice rink.
It is come-and-go, so it suits a few hours on a weekend afternoon. Younger kids head for the rides and lights; school-age kids get the most from the workshops and show.
Lalalilalo Christmas Surprise is a Christmas theater show made for toddlers and preschoolers. A cast performs it at Morfes Ekfrasis, a drama school.
The show is in Greek, so it suits kids who follow Greek. It is pitched at the very young, so older siblings in school may find it too babyish.
On New Year's Eve in the town of Doroupoli, the presents polish their wrapping for the biggest night of the year. Best friends Ribbon and Bow fly around the Earth and find it needs gifts no box can hold: water, trees, clean air. Three actors and an onstage pianist tell it with harmony singing and video projections, and the message is about sticking at it and caring for the planet.
A holiday play for kids built on the premise in its title: Christmas has been banned. It's a story-based show, so it suits kids who can follow a plot from start to finish, and it may lose toddlers along the way.
The MATICAPI company stages it at Arroyo Theater on Patision Street.
Alice on Ice is a Greek production of Alice in Wonderland, staged as an ice-skating show at the Ice 'n' Skate rink in Egaleo. Kids watch Alice's story told by a cast on skates.
It runs straight through with no break, which suits younger kids who can sit through a short show. It's performed in Greek, so kids who already know the story will follow it best.
A Christmas theater show for children, staged at the historic Olympia Theater in central Athens. Its Greek title is Ο Πλανήτης των Χριστουγεννιάτικων Δέντρων.
It's a seated, ticketed play, a good holiday outing for families whose kids enjoy sitting through a live show.
A Christmas stage show from the Sofi Koukouvagia company, inspired by Dickens' tale of the miser Scrooge. He meets the spirits of Christmas, travels into his past and future, gets moved and scared along the way, and ends up a kinder man.
It suits kids who can sit through a full-length play and follow Greek dialogue, and families after a holiday outing with a clear message about kindness and giving.
Maro and the Kalikantzaroi is a children's play from the Morfes Ekfrasis company, staged at a drama school over the winter holidays.
The show is performed in Greek, so it suits kids who follow spoken Greek. Children who don't may find the story hard to keep up with.
