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Posts Tagged ‘Higley Center for the Performing Arts’

Tips for introducing kids to Shakespeare

Melissa Pereyra (L) as Juliet and Chris Klopatek as Romeo in the Utah Shakespeare Festival 2013 Shakespeare-in-the-Schools production of "Romeo and Juliet." Photo by Karl Hugh. Courtesy of Utah Shakespeare Festival.

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 [...]

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Two VIP tickets to Saturday’s Tom Chapin concert

Tom Chapin, musician supporting healthy food choices, Why Hunger, Give Peas a Chance

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.

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Building bridges through music

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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, [...]

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Need a puppet fix?

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.

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Seuss sightings

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.”

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Holiday dance memories

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.

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A first for folk music

After learning that official Arizona historian Marshall Trimble will perform this weekend at the Gilbert Folk Festival, Lynn Trimble begins to wonder whether he ever tires of people asking whether they’re related.

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A pair of Kennedy sightings

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.

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Students review "Macbeth" tour

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.

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Shakespeare: The gift that keeps on giving

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.

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