During the summer vacation, the annual Shanghai International Children's Theatre Festival will be held in Shanghai, and children's theatrical troupes from Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Taiwan will perform 30 showings of children's drama in the festival.

Since its foundation in 2004, Shanghai International Children's Theatre Festival has been held for five consecutive years, successively inviting children's theatrical troupes from more than 20 countries and regions to show nearly 200 showings of children's drama to an audience of about 140,000 persons. This year’s festival themed with ‘Creative Imagination’ will stage 10 plays in Shanghai, including Canadian doll drama The Lord of the Rings: The Hobbit, Australian children's drama Check Out!, Singapore's The Little Prince, The Ugly Princess of Children's Art Theatre of China Welfare Institute, and Shanghai Puppet Troupe's Little Woodman's Adventure. Especially, "Check Out!" and some other plays will go on tour in communities such as Xujiahui Park.