Children’s Theater Company

Henry Brown was an American slave who devised an unusual route to freedom: the United States mail. In 1849 he hid in a dry-goods crate and had himself shipped to abolitionists in Philadelphia. The Children’s Theater Company, this time working with adult casts, has adapted his story into “Henry ‘Box’ Brown,” a musical infused with gospel and R&B. It’s being performed with another short show, “King Kunka Bunka and the Rotten Royal Rascals,” which is written in Seuss-style rhyme and centers on a widowed Russian monarch’s search for an heir.