Engage your students with a school matinee
and enhance their arts literacy !
At The Scoundrel & Scamp, we support teachers' efforts to enhance students' arts literacy by providing substantially discounted tickets for students and teachers and by providing convenient matinee performance times for student field trips.
Attending our beautiful theater is an experience for your students in itself. Conveniently located just off 4th Avenue within The Historic Y, our proscenium-style mainstage is a state-of-the-art performance space.
Consider joining us for our 2025-2026 Matinees for Schools program, featuring shows for students of all ages!
Matinee tickets are $12.00 per student, chaperone, or teacher. Seating is limited - book early to reserve your date!
Title I Schools are eligible to receive discounted tickets: $7.00 per person! Make sure you let us know if your school is Title I.
Teachers, do you want to see the play before bringing your students? Join us at the first preview for the show for just $10!
Interested in reserving seats? Please fill out the form below.
We offer three options for the 2025-26 Season.
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Where Words Once Were
SEPTEMBER 30 & OCTOBER 2, 2025
By Finegan KruckemeyerIn a dystopian world where language is rationed to only 1,000 approved words, Alli and her son Orhan live a normal life; going to school, owning and operating a bakery. Life is good until the words "I think I see a city that rues words" are plastered on a wall over the bakery. The City begins a man-hunt for the perpetrator. It is then that our hero, Orhan, discovers that even a single word can change the world.
Join the S&S for this timely tale by the beloved storyteller, Finegan Kruckemeyer, author of This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries and This Girl Does Nothing and You and Me and the Space Between.
Recommended for ages 7+.
Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes.FIELD TRIPS AVAILABLE
Tues., Sep 30, 2025 @ 10:00 AM
Open (105 seats available)Thur., October 2, 2025 @ 10:00 AM
Open (105 seats available)ARIZONA STATE STANDARDS
English Language Arts, Reading and Literature Anchor Standards 1-7
Theatre "Responding" Anchor Standards 7
Theatre "Connecting" Anchor Standard 11
Communication & Cultural CompetenciesSKILLS
Critical Thinking
Global Literacy
Global Issues
Literature, Language Arts, and Literary Analysis
Adaptations
Character Studies (Mindfulness, Curiosity, Courage, Resilience, Ethics, Empathy, Leadership)
Metacognition (Reflection)
Music
Practices, products, and perspectives of cultures -
Red Herring Puppets
Ugly Duckling: August 29, 2025
The Barking Mouse and The Blue Frog: October 17, 2025
Aesop’s Fables: March 20, 2026We’re offering matinees of three puppet shows: The Ugly Duckling and TheBarking Mouse and The Blue Frog in the fall, and Aesop’s Fables in the spring.
The Ugly Duckling is an original musical version of the classic folktale where we are reminded that real ugliness is not about appearance, but it can be the mean and prejudiced behavior of others.
The bilingual tale ofThe Barking Mouse wittily champions the value of learning a second language. The Blue Frog is the Mayan version of the Legend of Chocolate. It is a double feature with original music by Diana Olivares and Salma Diaz, from Las Azaleas, an all-female mariachi band based in Tucson.
Aesop’s Fables was the winner of puppetry’s highest honor for Red Herring’s original rhymed adaptation of the classic tales covering topics of bullying, selfishness, competition, ingenuity, and the affirmation that little beings can achieve great things. The show includes “The Lion and the Mouse,” “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “The Owl and the Grasshopper,” “The Fox and the Crow,” “The Crow and the Pitcher,” and “The Stork and the Fox.”
Recommended for PreK - 6th Grade
Runtimes: Under 60 minutes.FIELD TRIPS AVAILABLE
Fri., Aug 29, 2025 @ 10:30 AM
Open (105 seats available)Fri., Oct 17, 2025 @ 10:30 AM
Open (105 seats available)Fri., Mar 20, 2025 @ 10:30 AM
Open (105 seats available)ARIZONA STATE STANDARDS
English Language Arts, Reading and Literature Anchor Standards 1-7
Theatre "Responding" Anchor Standards 7-9
Theatre "Connecting" Anchor Standard 11
World & Native Languages: Communication & Cultural Competencies (Barking Mouse)SKILLS
Critical Thinking
Physical Theatre
Puppetry
Global Literacy
Global Issues
Adaptations
Character Studies (Mindfulness, Curiosity, Courage, Resilience, Ethics, Leadership)
Metacognition (Reflection)
Music (Barking Mouse)
Cultural Studies
Spanish Language (Barking Mouse) -
The WoBo Show
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025
NOVEMBER 21, 2025
JANUARY 23, 2026Wolfe Bowart’s The WoBo Show comes back to the S&S for a third season! Join us for three very different shows featuring the hilarious Wolfe Bowart and Xochitl Martinez plus special guests - catch one or see all three in our Season 9 series. Wolfe Bowart brings us another enchanting theatre creation, the creator and actor behind such zany, magical works as Cloud Soup, LaLaLuna, OAF, and One Twig at a Time. Enjoyed by audiences the world over, Wolfe’s shows are theatrical experiences that evoke thought, wonder, and laughter — a joyful celebration of oddity, creating dreamlike sequences that inspire delight.
Recommended for PreK - 12th Grade
Runtimes: Under 60 minutesFIELD TRIPS AVAILABLE
Fri., Sep 12, 2025 @ 10:00 AM
Open (105 seats available)Fri., Nov 21, 2025 @ 10:00 AM
Open (105 seats available)Fri., Jan 23, 2026 @ 10:00 AM
Open (105 seats available)ARIZONA STATE STANDARDS
English Language Arts, Reading and Literature Anchor Standards 1-7
Theatre "Responding" Anchor Standards 7-9
Theatre "Connecting" Anchor Standard 11SKILLS
Critical Thinking
Global Literacy
Literature, Language Arts, and Literary Analysis
Adaptations
Character Studies (Mindfulness, Curiosity, Courage, Resilience, Ethics, Empathy, Leadership)
Metacognition (Reflection)
Inquire after a Matinee
Matinee tickets are $12.00 per student or teacher.
Title I Schools are eligible to receive discounted tickets: $7.00 per person! Make sure you let us know if your school is Title I.
Our theater is a beautiful, intimate space, but seating is limited. Please book early to reserve your date!
Interested in reserving seats for your students to see a show the Scoundrel & Scamp? Please either fill out the form below or contact us at director@scoundrelandscamp.org.
