Best Playground

Playfest

There's no bigger place for a kid to play than inside his or her own imagination, and theatre is a great way to get there. Playfest, the Coalition for Children's Theatre's annual showcase of works for young people, offers all kinds of plays - musicals, marionettes, storytelling, melodrama - presented by different area companies in week-long runs. The shows approach theatre from different angles, but all lead the child to romp inside that great playscape of the mind.