A Theater for Children

A Theater for Children

Education: Youth Arts Education - Kids/Family - Nonprofit - Performing Arts - Recovery Fund Grantee - Theatre

Website: https://www.atheaterforchildren.com

 707-483-5800

 Performances at 415 Steele Lane, Santa Rosa, Also Performances at Kid Street Charter School, Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Local theater artists building character and community through theater events for children.

For all the details, visit our website https://www.atheaterforchildren.com

Our Vision

A Theater For Children was founded in 2016 to serve the residents of Sonoma County.  We offer low-cost performances for young audiences and offer free opportunities for children to perform. We recognize that the theater arts provide children with life-changing opportunities to develop character and confidence, promote cooperation among multiple generations and build a diverse and vibrant community of individuals who value creativity and learning.

Our Programs

Participation in the magic of theater, whether behind the scenes or in front of an audience, sparks imagination and ingenuity and helps to build community and character. A Theater For Children provides quality affordable live entertainment to the community in our mainstage shows.

Each year we produce three main stage productions. Our shows include well-loved interpretations of classic children’s literature, as well as contemporary stories and new works.

Some of our shows:

McQuadle: A Dragon’s Tale

Cinderella, Cinderella, a participation play for children

Dorothy & The Wizard of Oz, another child participation play.

Disney’s 101 Dalmatians KIDS

Alex & The Magic Staff, by local artists Bridget Palmer and Peter B. Allen.

For the 2019-2020 Season, we received a Cultural Arts Grant from Creative Sonoma to support our theme of “Children Embracing Nature Through Theater Arts.” This grant supported our efforts to produce Disney’s Lion King KIDS in November 2019. The production included the theme of the balance of nature and incorporated audience participation with an African animal headband arts project for children and the inclusion of audience voices and movement.

Our March 2020 production, the California premiere of “Save Our Planet”, also contained a nature preservation theme, and children were invited to participate by rapping along with the performers.

Our two school site-specific versions of Disney’s Lion King KIDS, at Bellevue and Kid Street Charter schools, including 60-100 children in each production. For a time, both projects had to be canceled because of the pandemic, but fortunately the Kid Street Lion King KIDS did take place in 2023.

We dedicated our 2020-2021 Season to the theme of “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child.” Although the Pandemic shutdown curtailed many of our plans, we were able to offer a Youth Playwriting Competition, a Playwriting Workshop, and a Zoom production of Alex & The Magic Staff in 2020.

On April 24th, 2021, we collaborated with the Children’s Museum of Sonoma County to create a fun day-long educational and entertaining event honoring Earth Day!

Most recently, we reprised McQuadle: A Dragon’s Tale, Disney’s Lion King KIDS, Disney’s Moana JR, and Disney’s Beauty & the Beast JR. In Spring 2024, we’re producing Witchs v. Princesses and Disney’s A Little Mermaid JR.

Who We Are

Our organization is run by Executive Director, Bridget Palmer, President, Jim Plaisted, and Treasurer,  Beverly Esperon. Our events are created and produced by volunteers from the Sonoma County community. ATFC is a Fiscally Sponsored Project of Inquiring Systems INC. (ISI), 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, in Santa Rosa, CA.

COVID-19 UPDATES & INFORMATION

Our Response to COVID-19 :

We monitor the level of Covid-19 in the community and  following public health recommendations to prevent the spread of the virus among our volunteers and audience members.

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