Celebrate The Stars, Broadway, Variety and Family Fare at The Valentine, with Four LIVE National Broadway Musical Tours & More

Daily Dose  |  07/22/2026 11:00 am

Four Broadway Valentine premiers, plus Variety presentations of dance, vocal, nostalgia, family, and more are once again on their way to The Valentine! The Broadway Series lineup includes, Mrs. Doubtfire, October 4,2026, Mystic Pizza - The New Musical, January 21, 2027, Hadestown on February 25,2027, and Kinky Boots, April 22, 2027, all headlining an eclectic season, our 131st year for the historic Valentine! Season tickets for all FOUR Broadway events start as low as $260 after up to 20% in savings over individually priced tickets! Local sponsors include: Key Bank, Buckeye Broadband, The Blade, and 13abc, along with many other generous corporate and private donors.

Broadway Series: Opening the season is Mrs. Doubtfire; based on the beloved film, Mrs. Doubtfire tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work, divorced actor who will do anything to stay in his kids lives, including becoming Mrs, Doubtfire! It's the loveable musical comedy about holding onto your loved ones against all odds.! a jam-packed evening of laughter and love that you won’t want to miss! Sunday, October 4, 2026. 7:00 p.m.  Thursday, January 21, 2027, 7:30 PM, our second presentation is Mystic Pizza the Musical, based on the popular 1988 MGM rom-com that launched the career of Julia Roberts. Mystic Pizza tells the story of three working-class young women navigating the complexities of life, love, and family, underscored by the mega hits of the 80s and 90s! The third Broadway Series selection is Hadestown, a musical love story for toaday and always. Hadestown intertwines two mythic tales - that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and King Hades and his wife Persephone, as it invites you on a hell-raising musical journey to the underworld and back, on Thursday, February 25, 2027, 7:30 p.m. Our fourth and the season's final Broadway series presentation is another Tony Award -winning musical Kinky Boots on Thursday, April 22, 2027, at 7:30 p.m. Celebrated with six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots is a joyful and uplifting story about acceptance, friendship, and finding the courage to be yourself.

Movies: Our popular Silver Screen series, sponsored by The Blade, returns in 2026/27 on Fridays at 7:30 p.m., featuring The Shining on October 30, 2026. Our annual tradition of screening Its a Wonderful Life is on December 18 and 20, 2026.  Our third film is Space Jam on January 15, 2027, followed by Ferris Bueller's Day Off on April 9, 2027. Billed as Toledo’s “‘New Old Fashioned Night Out”, tickets are $5, along with popcorn, candy, and the Valentine’s full service bar with themed cocktails, through intermission. Follow valenitnetheatre.com for film updates, or additions.

Variety Series: our Variety Series with seven exceptional presentations to choose from plus $avings! We have a diverse array of touring theatre, concerts, dance and comedy that offers something for every entertainment taste, ON SALE NOW!  On Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at 8:00 p.m. Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters bring their 2026 Morro Rock Tour of the "Sixties Mod" sound to Toledo. While the world knows Billy Bob Thornton for his storied career in film, to television's hit streaming sensation Landman, his heart has always been in the studio and on the concert tour bus sharing their love of the 1960s legendary "California Sound". Next on Monday, October 26, 2026, 7:30 p.m. The Rat Pack is Back will transport you to The Copa Room of 1960s Las Vegas, where "Frank," "Dean," and "Sammy" reunite for one of their legendary "Summits at The Sands" night's of The Rat Pack! Join us for Ana Gasteyer's Sugar & Booze Holiday Concert on Sunday, November 22, 2026 7:00 p.m. Ana Gasteyer, the star of Broadway, concerts, film and TV's Saturday Night Live delivers the goods with this reto inspired album, and acclaimed concert. Potted Potter the Parody takes on the ultimmate challenge of condensing, or 'potting,' all seven Harry Potter books into 70 madcap minutes on Monday, January 4,2027 7:30 p.m.The show also invites audiences to engage with a real life game of Quidditch, but according to their own unique set of rules. Everyone is Irish on Friday, March 5, 2027  8 p.m. foe Dancing With The Celts. This all star cast of top notch musicians, singers, and dancers, deliver a fresh blend of Irish Americana, combining their own rootsy originals and tight vocal harmonies with fiery Irish instrumentals. Dancing With The Celts is from the creators of the famous national PBS show Christmas With The Celts! Broadway, film, and TV star Richard Thomas stars in Mark Twain Tonight! by Hal Holbrook on Tuesday, March 30,2027 7:30 p.m. bursting with Twain's uproariously funny and pungently wise humor. Richard Thomas is the only actor authorized to perform Mark Twain Tonight! since Holbrook himself. lastly the Variety Series ends on Tuesday, April 6, 2027 7:30 p.m.with Cirque Gravity & Other Myths: Ten Thousand Hours, a  contemporary, critically acclaimed circus and acrobatics spectacle of dynamic human towers, daring physicality, and playful down-to-earth comedy. Ten Thousand Hours extends way beyond acrobatics, into visual storytelling, movement, and contemporary dance. Choose any four of these seven exciting shows and save up to 10% per ticket off each entertaining selection. Broadway subscribers are invited to the discount for any one or more selections purchased!

The Sensory Friendly Family Series: three, sensory friendly presentations are scheduled for 2026/27: CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG bounds onto the Valentine stage Sunday, November 15, 2026 2 p.m. Next on Saturday, March 13, 2027 4:00 pm it's Dr. Suess's The Cat In The Hat Live! Cat interrupts a rainy afternoon with his unexpected visit to Sally and her brother's cozy home. Cat will teach us all to make our own fun with nothing but a little imagination. Along with Thing One and Thing Two, the theatre will be filled with mischievous humor and madcap antics for all! Our final Family Series presentation is Artrageous on Saturday, March 27, 2027 at 2:00 p.m. when art, music, song, dance, life-sized puppetry come together on ONE STAGE in an explosion of creative energy. It's ALL AGE interactive fun for ONE AND ALL. Visit artrageousshow.com to see for yourself.! All shows for families with children ages pre-K through grade 12, tickets for all three shows start as low as $54 for both children and adults.  All shows performed at 2 PM, with the exception of Dr. Suess's The Cat in The Hat! at 4:00 p.m. all family performances last approximately one hour. 

Valentine School Days Season 14: Valentine is pleased to announce its fourteenth season of Valentine School Days, an Educational Outreach Program. School Days will continue the rich tradition of presenting professional touring companies performing educational theatre productions geared toward school children for field tripsduring the school week. Seven presentations are scheduled live, fall thru spring! 9/25/26 Pete The Cat, September 25, 2026

Carl Sandburg's Lincoln November 13, 2026, Cliffird The Big Red Dog November 16, 2026, Wind In TheWillows December 2, 2026, Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus March 11, 2027, The Magic School Bus April 19, 2027 on April 29, 2026, and The Pout Pout Fish on May 18,2027.  Performances are at 10:00 AM and 12:15 PM and appeal to grades from pre-K to 12^th grade. Tickets are $10 for groups of 16 and higher, $11 for groups of 15 or less. Teachers and Home School facilitators can contact Valentine Box Office, Joe Ball,  at 419/214-4806 to reserve tickets, or email [email protected]. Sponsored by Buckeye Broadband, Key Bank, Lucas County, Buckeye Telesystems, Theater League, Ohio Arts Council, The Blade, PNC Bank, Dana, Ohio Arts Council, The Andersons, Toledo Community Foundation,City of Toledo, Lucas County, Medical Mutual, The Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation, The France Stone Foundation, and The Edward Lamb Foundation.

All tickets range in price from $5 (movies) to $118 for non subscription Broadway shows, from $54 (Full Family Series), to as low as $260 up to $376, for our four-show Broadway series subscription, representing savings of 20% under single ticket prices.  New Broadway orders will be accepted and date stamped, while we fill current subscriber renewals throughout the summer. Season tickets can be renewed Now through The Valentine Box Office at 419-242-2787 or in person at the theatres box office in downtown Toledo at Superior and Adams Streets, Monday through Friday 10 a.m to 4 p.m. Broadway season ticket are now available online! Individual tickets for the general public are also available now! Visit our website at valentinetheatre.com today!