Children

May 29: “Twelve Dancing Princesses,” James Armstrong Theatre. South Bay Ballet.

May 30: “No Way to Treat a Lady,” James Armstrong Theatre. Phantom Projects Educational Theatre Group, a teen troupe.

June 2: “Roots & Shoots Festival,” Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. Music, dance, arts and crafts, conservation groups and featured speaker, Dr. Jane Goodall. For children and families.

* Kids’ Nature Festival, Temescal Gateway Park. Children’s Nature Institute’s day of live concerts, explorations, activities, animals. For young children.

June 2-4: “The Wheels Keep Turning,” South Coast Repertory. Fantasy about a girl in a wheelchair transported to the Middle Ages, with SCR’s Young Conservatory Jr. Teen Players.

June 2-Aug. 25: “Big/World Fun Family Series,” John Anson Ford Theatre. Troubadour Theater Company, Circus Millennia and other professional performing groups.

June 2-Sept. 30: “Barnyard Madness With the Three Little Pigs,” Santa Monica Playhouse. Musical comedy.

June 3: “Calico Winds at the Sunday Muse,” Every Picture Tells a Story. Bach to Zappa with the intergenerational Calico Winds quintet.

June 3 and Aug. 5: Getty Family Festival, Getty Museum. Dance, music, storytelling, art workshops, gallery activities.

June 3-Oct. 28: “Family Fundays,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Dan Crow, Parachute Express, Banana Slug Stringband and many other professional theater and music performers.

June 3-Indefinitely: “2nd Wind,” Gene Bua Acting for Life Theatre. An acting teacher, celeb students and street kids find new paths in Here’s to Life Foundation musical.

June 9-10: “The Weather Started Getting Rough,” South Coast Repertory. Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in a “Gilligan’s Island” setting, with Young Conservatory Teen Players.

June 10: Courtney Campbell in concert, McCabe’s Guitar Shop.

June 15-Sept. 9: “Cinderella: The Director’s Cut,” Santa Monica Playhouse. Musical comedy.

June 16: “Eth-Noh-Tec,” Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts. Asian tales and music for ages 7 to 12.

June 24: “InsideOut Writers,” Every Picture Tells a Story. Work by L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall youth mentored by artists and writers. Celebrity readings.

* “Spirit of America,” Johnny Mercer Foundation Family Music Days, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Central Plaza.

July 4-Aug. 5: Beverly Hills Live! Kidfest Koncert Series, Roxbury Park.Professional children’s music artists.

July 9-Aug. 17: “Open House at the Hollywood Bowl: Musical Time Machine,” Hollywood Bowl. Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Debussy Trio, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Ensemble and other professional musical performances and arts workshops for ages 3 to 11.

July 10-Aug. 14: Family Storytelling Festival, Beverly Hills Library. With professional storytellers.

July 14-Aug. 2: Celebrity Reading Series, 24th Street Theatre. Children’s books read by Doris Roberts, Robin Strausser, Greg Mullavey and other celebrities.

July 21-Aug. 5: “The Ugly Duckling” and “Tom Thumb,” Culver City Public Theatre, Dr. Paul Carlson Memorial Park.

July 22: “Penelope Puddles’ Problematic Playground,” Make*A*Circus, Wilson Park. San Francisco’s one-ring family theater circus.

Aug. 21-27: “Summer Stock: 2001,” Santa Monica Playhouse. Musical.

Aug. 25-26: “The People vs. B.B.Wolfe,” South Coast Repertory. The Big Bad Wolf on trial. Young Conservatory Summer Players.