Play is more than just fun and games for children. It’s a crucial element of healthy development, shaping their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional well-being. Through play, children explore ...

Playwriting often begins in solitude: a writer hunched over a laptop or notepad, coaxing characters into existence. But a play doesn’t truly breathe until actors give those characters a voice. Only ...

Play is essential to a child's development and is one of the most impactful ways to support student learning — it fuels academic success. Playworks Utah, a leading nonprofit in Utah, is helping kids ...

Every waking moment, billions of neurons bustle across the highways of our brains, choreographing the body's thoughts, movements and communications. Newborns come into the world with 100 billion ...

Milwaukee Rep plans to perform six new plays over the next two years, including one about the Milwaukee Bucks' championship ...

Many people often think of play in the form of images of young children at recess engaging in games of tag, ball, using slides, swings, and physically exploring their environments. But physical play ...

A children's activity area. — Image by © Tim Sandle. A children's activity area. — Image by © Tim Sandle. Between 2011 and 2023, public playground budgets fell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flashback Theater Co. (FbTC) is excited to announce the return of its New Play Development program with a special twist: This year ...

Dr Jacqueline Harding, director of Tomorrow's Child and an early childhood expert at Middlesex University, argues that the young child's brain is inherently designed to be playful, and this is crucial ...

TheaterWorks Hartford has received the Joyce C. Willis Equity in the Arts grant to fund its artist residency in 2026 and it “strengthens our future,” according to theater leaders. The grant was ...