The mission of CBACT's Children's Theatre Festival is to provide the Boston area community with an annual opportunity to experience and celebrate the entertaining, artistic, educational, and multi-transformational effects of live children’s theatre. This non-competitive festival brings together multiple, Boston-area children’s theatres to perform an artistic variety of diverse performances suitable for audiences of all ages.

This year's festival will be co-hosted by Watertown Children's Theatre and Arsenal Center for the Arts on Saturday, July 17th, 2010 from 9:30 AM-5:30 PM at Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA. Click here for directions.

Last Year's Festival Schedule

  • 9:30 Festival Opens!
  • 10 AM Concord Youth Theatre presents "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"
  • 11 AM Workshops presented by Arsenal Center for the Arts, the Arlington Children's Theatre, and Concord Youth Theatre
  • Noon Watertown Children's Theatre presents "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
  • 1 PM Lunch
  • 1:30 PM Riverside Theatre Works presents "42nd Street"
  • 2:30 PM Workshops presented by Stoneham Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts, and the Un-Common Theatre
  • 3:30 PM Arlington Children's Theatre presents "Taming of the Shrew"
  • 4:30 PM Un-Common Theatre Company's Improv Soup!

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    Festival Information

    Admission is $20 for the day or $5 per show with workshops included in the ticket price; for admission to each workshop session only, admission is $5 per person. There is plenty of free parking available. Lunch is not included but will be available for purchase either at the festival or at Panera next to the theater.

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    CBACT Festival Child Supervision/Personal Item Policy:

    The CBACT Children’s Theatre Festival is not intended to be used as a day-care service for unattended children. It is the responsibility of the parent(s)/guardian(s), not that of festival staff, to supervise their children and promote safe and appropriate behavior.

    CBACT and all participating organizations are not accountable for any personal items that are lost or stolen during the festival.

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