Located in Auburn, the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse is comprised of two separate creative entities: the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse Musical Theatre and the Merry-Go-Round Youth Theatre.
The Merry-Go-Round Musical Theatre, known as "Broadway in the Finger Lakes," produces a season of musical performances in the historic carousel building in Emerson Park on Owasco Lake during the summer and fall.
The Playhouse's Youth Theatre tours state wide with a curriculum-based theatre performances and workshop series for youth during the school year and a family oriented performance during the summer.
The mission of the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse is to enrich, through the arts, the lives of all residents of the state of New York