We all know the story: Peter Pan is a boy who refuses to grow up. He lives with other motherless boys and a tiny fairy named Tinkerbell on a faraway island called Neverland. One night he entices a girl named Wendy and her two little brothers to fly away with him to his magical home. There, Wendy bakes pies and tells stories to the enthralled Lost Boys. They fight off the scurrilous Captain Hook and his band of pirates. In the end, Wendy returns home to finish the task of becoming an adult, but Peter stays forever a boy.

The story has been told in many books, plays, musicals, and films. In this two-act (non-musical) adaptation of the original novel by J.M. Barrie, written by Craig Sodaro, we revisit the never-ending childhood of Peter Pan. We might recall those long-ago days of our own childhoods when we could imagine things into existence simply by believing in them with our whole hearts. We remember the words of George Bernard Shaw, who said, “We don’t stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.”