The Consortium of Boston Area Children’s Theatres presents the 2008 Children’s Theatre Festival: a day-long event featuring four shows, educational theatre workshops, improvisational comedy, and the chance to experience and celebrate live children’s theatre. This non-competitive festival brings together seven Boston-area children’s theatre companies to perform an artistic variety of diverse performances suitable for audiences of all ages.

This event is a wonderful opportunity for families to enjoy a taste of local children’s theatre, and will be enjoyable for everyone who appreciates talented young actors with a passion for creativity. See, and network with, some of the best talent from local children’s theatre companies all together on one stage for one day.

The event will be held on Saturday, July 19th, with the first show beginning at 10.00am. Each show will be between 45 minutes to an hour long with a total of four workshops offered between shows. The festival will be held in the Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. Advance ticket purchase is suggested and will be rewarded by entry into a drawing for a Bouquet of Tickets from all the participating Theatre Companies. Tickets can be purchased for the full day (all shows & workshops) for $20, or for each individual show for $5. Entry to workshops requires the purchase of any show ticket. Tickets may be purchased from Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 by phone at (800)838-3006 or online at www.brownpapertickets.com . For more information on the festival visit CBACT’s website at www.cbact.org or call Watertown Children’s Theatre at (617)926-ARTS.

This festival is brought to the general public by CBACT, The Consortium of Boston Area Children’s Theatres. CBACT is a group dedicated to fostering collaboration between Boston-area children’s theatres, enhancing access to resources and audiences, sharing ideas, and broadening the rewarding, long lasting effects of children’s theatre.

Lineup:
10am - Performing Arts Center of MetroWest, performing Once Upon a Mattress
11am - Artbarn Community Theater workshop 3D Fairy Tales
- Riverside Theatre Works workshop Open Scenes Improv
12 noon - Watertown Children’s Theatre, performing Wiley and the Hairy Man
1:30pm - Arlington Childrens Theatre, performing Romeo and Juliet
2.30pm - Wheelock Family Theatre workshop Story Troupers Redux
- Un-Common Theatre Co workshop Improvisation
3.30pm - Riverside Theatre Works, performing Les Miserables
4:30pm - Un-Common Theatre Company presents Improv Soup Troupe

* New schedule! See updates!