See Bud, Not Buddy at the Rush Page Center for the Arts with tickets starting at $8 (regularly $26).

Gather the kids for a heartwarming play full of humor and delightful characters — Bud, Not Buddy, based on Christopher Paul Curtis’ novel that won the Newbery Medal and a Coretta Scott King Book Award. Ideal for kids age 8 or older, Bud, Not Buddy is the story of a young African-American orphan in search of his father. Clues kept in a suitcase lead him to adventures in Depression-era Michigan, where he finds community among a group of jazz musicians and, ultimately, an unexpected sense of home.