The mission of Dallas Children's Theater is to inspire young people to creative and productive lives through the art of theater.

To give rise to theater that is inspiring, Dallas Children's Theater:

• Creates and produces innovative professional theater for a multi-generational audience through original works, world premieres, literary classics, folk and fairy tales and contemporary drama;
• Employs and collaborates with acclaimed professional artists;
• Develops dynamic programs that integrate arts into curricula ... enriching language skills, learning processes, and promoting an early appreciation for the arts by bringing literature to life;
• Builds bridges of understanding between generations and cultures through the timeless and universal voice and language of theater's multisensory approach.
• Offers performing arts classes and experiences on a year round basis.

Theatrical Passion: By providing a home base for artists, Dallas Children’s Theater creates powerful live theater to expose children, families, educators and community members to both classic and contemporary works. Dallas Children’s Theater dedicates its resources to elevating the field on a local as well as national level.

Commitment to Staff: Dallas Children’s Theater is committed to providing staff with wages and benefits that recognize their contribution to the organization’s overall success and regularly evaluates these decisions equally alongside other budgetary priorities.

Inspiring Creativity: Dallas Children’s Theater believes every child is unique and has something valuable to contribute to society. We help them embrace creativity as an intrinsic part of life, inspiring them to imaginative and rewarding lives.

Innovative Leadership: Dallas Children’s Theater uses its art form to present issues facing today’s youth and supplements dramatic performances with workshops and events featuring leading experts in education, arts and health to ignite enlightening and powerful conversation.

Reaching Out: Dallas Children’s Theater believes all children, families and members in the education community deserve the opportunity to experience live theater and its powerful effects; especially those who might consider cost a barrier.

Arts and Community: Dallas Children’s Theater believes that the collective arts are a critical part of where we all live, work and play and is therefore committed to taking on new challenges and collaborating with our peers to use the arts to make a positive impact in our community—both today and in the future.

Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion: DCT is committed to the kind of excellence in theater arts programming that challenges and inspires young people from every race, culture, gender, social class, ability and sexual orientation to develop their unique creative talents and individual perspectives in order to contribute to a more pluralistic and peaceful world. DCT promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion in all areas of the institution, including its programming, board and staff. To read more about our commitment, download our Strategic Anti-Racism, Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, Access and Accountability Action Plan here.

While in our building or at a DCT-sponsored event, should you ever witness or experience a behavior that is counter to our commitment, please tell us about it by submitting this incident report.