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Great Arizona Puppet Theater

Housed in a historic church in downtown Phoenix the Great Arizona Puppet Theater offers unique, quality entertainment for both children and adults -- call us for reservations and check out our website for more information. See you at the theater!

Great Arizona Puppet Theater is a non-profit professional puppet theater founded in 1983 as a touring company. The theater is open to the public 5 days a week year-round with shows for children and adults and also tours throughout the community serving a total audience of 85,000 annually, mostly children. We provide entertaining and educational shows for students and have been named The New Times "Best Entertainment for Kids" and "Best Children's Theater." We have won The UNIMA-USA Citation for Excellence in Puppetry (the highest honor in the international puppetry community) for our original version of "Cinderella." Find more of our honors below.

Our historic building is open to the public year-round and our puppeteers perform traveling shows at schools, libraries, child cares, and community centers all over Arizona and beyond! We have a repertoire of over 60 shows that range from original stories about the environment to fun versions of fairy tales, most of which have an accompanying study guide free to download for students and parents to enrich their experience.

We are open year round, performing shows at the theater Wednesday through Sunday. Be sure to purchase your tickets in advance on our website, where you can see all of the fun and educational offerings we have lined up for this season. We look forward to seeing you at the theater!

Reading / Story time, Arts: Performance, Participatory (e.g., music jam sessions, dancing, theater), Deaf/Hearing Impaired, Hands-on, Home Schooling