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Places, everyone! Bring your imagination and stories to life in our Theater, where you can change into character at the actors’ makeup table and dress the part with the help of the costume rack. Perform your show to a packed house using real theater technology such as drapery, lighting and sound. You can also enjoy our many talented performers, or a one-of-a-kind health and anatomy lesson with Stuffee®.
 
 

What’s the Real Stuff?
 
 

Stage

Theater is an outlet for imaginative, dramatic play where children and adults can express how they feel about different situations in a safe, non-threatening way. Through role playing, self expression and working as a team, children develop their confidence, communication skills and empathy. Adults who play along show their children more of their personality and abilities.

Stuffee®

Stuffee turns himself inside out via a large zipper to reveal his major abdominal organs and help children understand how their bodies work. While suggestive of a real person, his size, blue hair, ear-to-ear grin and giant zipper up the middle illustrate how we all look different on the outside. On the inside, Stuffee’s fabric organs are accurate representations of human organs.

Learn how you can purchase a Stuffee for your facility or group.

 
 

Explore more

Learn more about these topics with the following books and websites. Many of the books can be reserved online from the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh.

Stuffee®

  1. I'm Growing
    by Aliki
  2. Human Body
    by Steve Parker
  3. Visible Human Website
  4. BAM! Body and Mind
  5. KidsHealth.org

Theater History

  1. William Shakespeare & the Globe
    by Aliki
  2. Recreating The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, Didaskalia online journal

Face Painting

  1. Face Painting
    by Patricia Silver

Dance

  1. Dance
    by Andree Grau
  2. Dance
    by Bill T. Jones and Susan Kuklin

Costume

  1. Costume
    by L. Rowland-Warne ISBN 0789455862

Acting, Improvisation & Theater Games

  1. On Stage: Theater Games and Activities for Kids
    by Lisa Bany-Winters
  2. The Young Actor's Book of Improvisation
    by Sandra Caruso ISBN 0325000484
  3. Amazing Grace
    by Mary Hoffman ISBN 0803710402
  4. Break a Leg: The Kids' Guide to Acting and Stagecraft
    by Lise Friedman ISBN 0761122087 and 0761125906
  5. Problem Solving Safari: Dramatic Play
    by Susan Miller ISBN 1570291209
  6. 101 Drama Games for Children: Fun Learning with Acting and Make-Believe
    Paul Rooyackers and Cecelia Bowman ISBN 0897932110 and 0897932129
  7. American Academy of Mime
  8. Learn Improv
  9. Plays: The Drama Magazine for Young People
  10. Dramatic Play
    by Gayle Bittinger and Mary Ann Hodge ISBN 1570291543

Do It Yourself

After you've visited this exhibit be sure you try these activities: How Does It Sound.
        

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