Last Friday students at Washington High School in Phoenix saw “Romeo and Juliet” performed by a touring educational company from the Utah Shakespeare Festival, which has ties to several Valley Shakespeare experts — including actress and teacher Maren Maclean. Maclean has performed with the festival, taught tour workshops and taken students to compete in the festival’s annual Shakespeare [...]
Congratulations to Patience Monroe of Chandler. She has won two complimentary VIP tickets to the Building Bridges Family Concert featuring folk singer Tom Chapin. The performance begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12. at Higley Center for the Performing Arts. Learn more about Chapin’s music, his outreach to local schools and the Saturday concert.
Tom Chapin returns to Higley Center for the Performing Arts (HCPA) this month as part of the Building Bridges classroom program, which incorporates the three-time Grammy Award winner’s music into lessons about diversity, bullying, healthy choices, tolerance, respect and environmental responsibility. He’ll perform for the public at HCPA at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12, [...]
Get your puppet fix as Lynn Trimble shares offerings for kids and adults from East Valley Children’s Theatre in Mesa, Theater Works in Peoria and Great Arizona Puppet Theater in Phoenix.
Explore concert, movie and theater fare featuring the works of Theodor Geisel, whose March 2. 1904 birthday is celebrated by those who knew and loved him as “Dr. Seuss.”
Recalling the days her daughters danced in “Snow Queen” and “The Nutcracker,” Lynn Trimble takes readers on a tour of Valley dance offerings perfect for creating family holiday memories.
Lynn Trimble stumbles on a teacher workshop while attending another event at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Monday — then has to control the urge to tell the teachers they’re standing on the very spot where Kristin Chenoweth once sang “Taylor the Latte Boy.” Small (scary) world.
After seeing the Utah Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare-in-the-Schools touring production of “Macbeth” at Higley Center for the Performing Arts, Lynn Trimble invited teacher Amie Brockway of Campo Verde High School in Gilbert to submit reviews written by a few of her English students.
Guest blogger Amie Brockway, English teacher at Campo Verde High School in Gilbert, reflects on sharing Shakespeare with her students. Up next — a companion post featuring four student reviewers who attended the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s touring production of “Macbeth” at Higley Center for the Performing Arts in March.
A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an [...]
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MAY 2013
$6.00Our 2013 directory of Valley aquatics programs — everything from learn-to-swim programs to diving, racing and synchronized swimming!
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April 2013
$6.00Our April 2013 issue features the 2013 Summer Solutions directory — more than 500 day camps in Maricopa County!
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March 2013
$6.00Our March 2013 issue features the 2013 directory of Overnight Camps in Arizona and the Southwest!
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February 2013
$6.00Our February 2013 issue is all about babies! Learn how to begin building your baby’s bookshelf, make your own baby food, find parent/tot classes and Daddy Boot Camps around the Valley. Plus: gifts, gadgets and great new looks for baby.
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January 2013
$6.00It’s our annual pregnancy issue! Learn about the latest trend among expectant parents: “gender-reveal” parties. Plus: Should you bank your baby’s umbilical cord blood?
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December 2012
$6.00Ice hockey in the desert? Our December issue tells you how to get your kids started. Plus, an insider’s tour of the Arizona Doll and Toy Museum. And two terrific holiday crafts your kids will love!
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