Childsplay, Arizona's Theatre for Young Audiences & Families

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Press Releases
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9/17/08
Miss Nelson is Missing - -additional show.

8/18/08
Childsplay wants to find the Valley’s best-loved teachers!

7/25/08
Childsplay presents the moving story Getting Near to Baby

7/25/08
Childsplay Announces Fall Academy Schedule

6/20/08
Help! Miss Nelson is Missing!

5/22/08
Childsplay Tour Festival: In My Grandmother’s Purse and A Little Bit of Water

5/5/08
Childsplay Announces Special Pajama Matinee for Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

4/30/08 (updated 5/1/08)
Childsplay Announces WACKY Shoe Day!

4/29/08
Childsplay Offers A Very Good Day

4/25/08
Childsplay Announces the 2008-2009 Season
 

3/18/08 (updated 4/8/08)
Childsplay Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary with “The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gala”

3/12/08
In My Grandmother’s Purse and A Little Bit of Water

3/11/08
US Airways Gives Wings to Theatre for Young Audiences

2/5/08 (updated 4/7/08)
Alexander’s Very Bad Day

2/1/08
Experience Childsplay Summer Academy…Like You Never Have Before.
 

1/2/08 (updated 3/17/08
Childsplay Presents the World Premiere of Dwayne Hartford’s A Tale of Two Cities

12/11/07
Childsplay Announces Spring Academy Classes

11/28/07
Childsplay Says “Thank You” for being HOME for the Holidays!

11/27/07
Seussical Poetry Slam Finalists Announced!

10/9/07 (updated 11/14/07)
Goodnight Moon is Not a Snooze!

10/4/07
Childsplay Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat this December!

10/16/07
Since the Cat in the Hat is Fifty, A Poetry Contest would be Nifty!

10/8/07
PICNIC & PLAY! CHILDSPLAY INVITES FAMILIES TO ENJOY LUNCH PRIOR TO PERFORMANCES WITH A SPECIAL TICKET PACKAGE

10/4/07
Childsplay Unfolds A Thousand Cranes in the new Tempe Center for the Arts Studio

6/11/07
Get Caught Up In Charlotte’s Web!

6/05/07 (updated 11/28/07)
2007-2008 Season Announced

9/06/06
Childsplay Awarded Prestigious Grant by U.S. Department of Education

8/09/06
Childsplay Elects Joanie Flatt as President and Adds Seven New Trustees

6/26/06
Childsplay goes “Outside the Box” -- Theatre Company Announces 2006-2007 Season

2/11/06
Childsplay Awarded Generous Grant by Thunderbirds Charities

High Resolution Photos

2008-2009 season: Miss Nelson is Missing!, Getting Near to Baby, The Velveteen Rabbit, Peter and the Wolf,

2007-2008 season
: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, A Little Bit of Water, In My Grandmother's Purse, Charlotte's Web, A Thousand Cranes, Seussical, Goodnight Moon, A Tale of Two Cities

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Childsplay Academy

Childsplay Academy
High School Musical
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Childsplay Academy
High School Musical
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Childsplay Academy
Urinetown
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Getting Near to Baby

Getting Near to Baby
L to R: Katie McFadzen as Aunt Patty and Kaleena Newman as Willa Jo.
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Miss Nelson is Missing!

Substitute teacher Viola Swamp (Katie McFadzen) teaches her students a lesson in Childsplay’s production of Miss Nelson is Missing!
L to R: Drew Ignatowski, Allison Bishop, Ricky Araiza and Katie McFadzen.
Photo Credit: Heather Hill

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Elvis (Debra K. Stevens) croons to substitute teacher Viola Swamp (Katie McFadzen) in Childsplay’s production of Miss Nelson is Missing!
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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George (Israel Jimenéz), LaVita (Liz Polen) and Morris (Drew Ignatowski) torment their teacher, Miss Nelson (Katie McFadzen), in Childsplay’s production of Miss Nelson is Missing!
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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Katie McFadzen in Miss Nelson is Missing!
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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Katie McFadzen in Miss Nelson is Missing!
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf
Photos courtesy of Childsplay
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Peter and the Wolf
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Peter and the Wolf
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The Velveteen Rabbit

Jannese Davidson is the Boy in 2008 production
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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Jannese Davidson is the Boy in 2008 production
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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Jannese Davidson is the Boy in 2008 production
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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The Velveteen Rabbit
Photos courtesy of Childsplay
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

The cast of Childsplay’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day the musical.
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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In My Grandmother's Purse

The Cast and Puppets of In My Grandmother's Purse
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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A Little Bit of Water

The cast of A Little Bit of Water
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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Goodnight Moon


Jodie Weiss
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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A Tale of Two Cities

Debra K. Stevens as the vengeful Madame Defarge with her coded knitting in Childsplay’s A Tale of Two Cities.
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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Charlotte's Web

Wilbur (D. Scott Withers)
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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A Thousand Cranes


L to R: Kate Haas as Mom/Grandma, Willa Darian as Sadako
Photo Credit: Heather Hill
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Seussical

Jon Gentry as Cat in the Hat (2006)
Photo credit: Jannine Doto
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