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Creative Arts Theater is the city's resident professional children's theater company. The staff of six professional performers tour recreation centers and libraries with multiple performances at most sites. With a repertory of more than 125 shows, Creative Arts Theater's puppets run the gamut from hand puppets to nine-foot body puppets. Masks, live actors, original music, and dance are often integrated into the mixed media productions, which are usually based on children's literature. Recognized throughout the United States for their work with puppets, the company has performed for more than one million children and their families during the past 40 years.

Current Performances

The performances listed below are free and open to the general public. For more information, please call the Creative Arts Theater at (813) 931-2106.

The Gingerbread Boy

Relive one of your favorite fairytales as the Gingerbread boy escapes from the oven and runs away from the little old woman and the little old man, and quite a few other animals too. This tale is told with traditional hand and rod puppets designed in a Pennsylvania Dutch style.

Show tours March - May, 2009

Date	Location	Address
March 16	Jan Platt Library	3910 South Manhattan Avenue
March 17	Ruskin Library @ Ruskin Center	One Dickman Drive SE
March 20	Temple Terrace Library	202 Bullard Parkway
March 24	Upper Tampa Bay Library	11211 Countryway Boulevard
March 26	Loretta Ingraham Center	1615 N. Hubert Avenue
March 30	Seffner-Mango Library	11724 East Dr. MLK, Jr. Boulevard
April 21	Lutz Library	101 Lutz-Lake Fern Road, West
April 22	78th Street Library	7625 Palm River Road
April 28	Austin Davis Library @ Keystone	17808 Wayne Road
April 29	Forest Hills Community Center	724 W 109^th Avenue
May 12	Egypt Lake Partnership Library	3403 W Lambright Street
May 13	Riverview Library	10509 Riverview Drive
May 14	Cyrus Green Community Center	2101 E. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

The Lorax

Treat yourself to Dr. Seuss' tongue twisting environmental tale of the Lorax and the Truffula Trees. Can the Lorax convince the Once-ler to change his greedy ways? the Somee-Swans and the Humming-Fish are in danger! Will the Lorax save the day?

Show tours June - July, 2009

Date	Location	Address
June 8	Brandon Library @ Center Place	619 Vonderburg Drive
June 9	Thonotosassa Library	10715 Main Street
June 10	Jimmie B. Keel Library	2902 W. Bearss Avenue
June 16	Seffner Library	11724 East Dr. MLK, Jr. Boulevard
June 17	New Tampa Regional Library	1001 Cross Creek Boulevard
June 18	Bruton Memorial Library	302 McLendon Street
June 23	78th Street Library	7625 Palm River Road
June 25	Town and Country Library	7606 Paula Drive. Suite 120
June 30	John F. Germany Library	900 North Ashley Drive
July 6	Riverview Library	10509 Riverview Drive
July 7	Wayne C. Papy Center	6925 N. Florida Ave.
July 8	Jan Platt Library	3910 South Manhattan Avenue
July 9	Rey Park Center	2301 N. Howard Avenue
July 23	Saunders Library	1505 Nebraska Avenue
July 27	Port Tampa Community Center	4702 W. McCoy Street
July 28	Upper Tampa Bay Library	11211 Countryway Boulevard
July 29	South Shore Library	15816 Beth Shields Way, Ruskin
July 30	Bloomingdale Library	1906 Bloomingdale Avenue

TA-DA Theater Arts and Dance Adventure Camp

A one-week performing arts and visual arts camp held April 6-9 for children ages 8-12. Space is limited. For more information, please call 813-274-8364

Become a Storyteller!

Learn the art of story telling. Instruction begins in January for children ages 5-18 at community centers located throughout the City of Tampa and Hillsborough County. Outstanding storytellers will be featured at the all day culminating festival on Saturday, April 18.

Dreamers Against Drugs Program

This highly acclaimed summer touring show features an anti-drug message. It is performed by young actors, singers and dancers, 10-16 years old who also help write the show. For more information regarding May auditions or having Dreamers perform for your group, contact Director David Jankiewicz at 813-931-2106.

The Tampa-Hillsborough County Storytelling Festival

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The Tampa-Hillsborough County Storytelling Festival engages people of all ages in the enjoyable pursuit of literature and nurtures the preservation of the oral tradition of storytelling. The festival takes place at Middleton High School,located at 4801 22nd Street.

The Festival provides an opportunity for inter-generational, multi-cultural interaction through story and exposure to nationally renown storytellers. Both children and adults receive training and actively participate in the ancient art of storytelling.