Open Circle Theater’s production of “Story Theatre” easily whisks you back to the times right before bed when your mother was reading a book to you, or cozy hours in the library on a rug with the other little kids, hearing about the boy who cried wolf. The trouble with the production is it doesn’t add any newness to those familiar, comfortable tales, making the production a slam dunk for kids, but one that won’t capture the heart of adults so easily.

Open Circle, whose productions are both catered to and featuring the talents of the disabled, is staging Paul Sills’ reworking of ten tales from the Brothers Grimm and Aesop adapted for the stage. The sing-song nature of the delivery of the stories is often reminiscent of the parable scenes in Godspell, relying heavily on pantomine and clowning.