Welcome!
The Great Arizona Puppet Theatre welcomes you! We are open year round, performing shows at the theater Wednesday through Sunday.
See below for what's coming next or look here for the full schedule of upcoming shows.
Make sure to buy your tickets in advance.
Check out our Imagine This Project. This creative project gets the kids of Kenilworth Elementary School to write stories and craft puppets like professionals.
Jack Rabbit & The Easter Basket
Sat 10am & 2pm, Sun 2pm.
Lost Canyon, Arizona is too far away for the Easter Bunny, so he gets his cousin, Jack Rabbit to help deliver Sally Johnson's Easter basket. But it's awful far and kind of dangerous! This charming musical is played with large rod puppets on the big stage! Recommended for ages 3 and up.
Tickets must be purchased in advance: reserve here or call 602-262-2050 x 0.
The Never Rad Miscellany
Great Arizona Puppet Theater (GAPT) will be collaborating with the original audio fiction podcast The Never Rad Miscellany, a sci-fi comedy anthology which will be hosting live monthly performances at GAPT. The show features both recurring stories and one-off sketches done in the style of an old-time radio show. It covers many narratives, including comical space playboys, supernatural neo-noir detectives, innovative new galactic products, wacky starship antics, and more. Co-creator Kat Keller said, “The podcast’s unique blend of comedy, drama, horror, and absurdity has something for everyone.” Tickets are on sale now. You can reserve here or call 602-262-2050. Ages 18+
World Puppetry Day Film Festival
Reserve here. At 6pm we will be hosting a workshop with local filmmaker Nathan Greene. His workshop features a ten minute slideshow on how he crafts his work followed by a screening of his short film “Flesh Eating Ghouls From Outer Space” this event is 18+. Then, at 7pm, we will be screening Heather Henson’s “Handmade Puppet Dreams”. That is an all ages event. Tickets are on sale now!
World Puppetry Day
It's puppety's biggest day! Celebrate with shows and activities all day long! Enjoy different puppet shows by sensational performers, make your own puppets, march-along in puppet parades, put on your own puppet show, and more!
Tickets are pay-what-you-can with a minimum of $5 per adult and $3 per child. Prepayment is required Reserve and Pay here. Doors open at 10:30am and the event ends around 4pm.Support Us
We are so proud of the work we do with our small staff of professional puppeteers and theater artists and we are excited to re-open our doors after over a year! Throughout the worst of the pandemic, we provided drive-in shows to families who needed a break out of the house to see live entertainment. While we are so happy to return indoors, we are still facing a large loss of income from limited school and child care performances and the likelihood of no school field trips in the coming year. Please consider supporting us today with a monthly donation of any amount. Every little bit helps!
Learn more about our mission and history here.
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