See your favorite Dr. Seuss characters come to life, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Mayzie La Bird, and a little boy with a big imagination, Jojo. Journey from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos. The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge--not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, face ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community are challenged and emerge triumphant!

Beauty and the Beast Hits the Stage in Redwood City

The Woodside High School Drama Department invites the public to step into the enchanted world of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", as they present six performances at the Woodside High School Performing Arts Center. The show begins March 14th and runs through March 23rd.  Based upon the Academy-Award winning animated feature, this Broadway stage version includes all of the wonderful songs written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, along with new songs by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice. Directed masterfully by Barry Woodruff and Kim Harvath, this "Tale As Old As Time" includes a talented cast of over 50 students who will act, sing, dance, and tumble their way into your hearts. The show is filled with fantastic music, magical costumes, spectacular sets, and larger than life characters.  The experienced production team of Don Coluzzi and Ruthie Smith, along with Bill Tolles and his orchestra, guarantees a perfect opportunity to see local family theater at its best. Presented by special arrangement with Musical Theater International (MTI), this is one of the most ambitious shows to date for the increasingly popular musicals being produced by Woodside High School.

Performance dates:  

Saturday, March 15 & 22 at 8 pm

Sunday, March 16 & 23 at 2 pm

Tickets: Adults $20.00, Seniors (65+) $15.00, Staff/ Students (college and under) $10.00. 

Purchase tickets  online: www.whsdramaboosters.com or call the Box Office @ (650) 367-9750 (x43706) to reserve your seats.

Contact: Donna Losey woodsidehsdramaboosters@gmail.com.

Do you have leftover Halloween costumes? Need to get rid of old dress-up accessories? You can use these costumes to help others.

Clara M., a 7th grade Girl Scout, is working on her Silver Award project. She is trying to help girls in the Daughters of Farmworkers program, a program that permits girls who are daughters of migrant farmworkers to participate in fun activities. After learning that the girls really enjoy theater, she decided to build them a drama closet, putting together the closet herself. However, she really needs help from the outside community to gather costumes and accessories.

She needs many different kinds of gently used costumes. Any type is great! Pirates, pharaohs, animals, doctors...

If you have any costumes, accessories, or other helpful items, please contact Clara at morseclara@gmail.com and you can have her pick up them whenever is convenient.

A performing arts camp coming to Corte Madera School? How would you like to improve your problem solving and communication skills through the lens of performing arts? Sing a variety of music?  Learn more about theater and improvisation? CAMP W'S Performing Arts summer class will allow beginners and experienced performers to express themselves in a unique and creative manner.  

Class Location: Corte Madera School, Room 503

Dates:
Session 1(Performance and Theater): June 16-June 27, 9:00-3:30 
Session 2(Music and Theater): July 7-18, 9:00-3:30  

Fees:
$900 per session
Sign up now and receive a 10% discount

Extended Care Daily Fee (8:00 am - 9:00 am): $125 per 2 week session or $15 per day.
Extended Care Daily Fee (3:45 pm - 5:30 pm): $175 per 2 week session or $25 per day.

Eligibility:
4-7th grade (BASED UPON THE 2013-14 SCHOOL YEAR)

To learn more about the camp, please visit campw.weebly.com or contact William Frederick at campw.william@gmail.com

Hope to see you this summer! 

Play your way to the page! All of Society of Young Inklings' camps are game-based and use improvisational theatre exercises to get creative juices flowing. 

The Talking Playhouse in Redwood City offers Social Skills Groups, Writing with Visualizing and Verbalizing™ from Lindamood Bell™ and Executive Function Therapy with "ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE©".

ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE is a curriculum designed to help students organize their thinking (cognitive) for academic tasks and logistical (physical environment) for paperwork, homework assignments, binders, backpacks, desk and bedroom.

We build executive functioning skills such as planning out tasks, time management, increase goal directed persistence, develop sustained attention, enhance task initiation, develop more flexibility, understand how to sequence & prioritizing, enhance working memory, learn to navigate the big picture &  identifying how to solve the organizational challenges thus increasing motivation to task.

PARENT TRAINING: We teach parents to increase productivity and maximize your child's organizational skills with more independence and less tug of war.

For more information please contact: jenn@talkingplayhouse.com