Alliance Theatre Delivers ‘Bucket Of Blessings’ To Schools

Can theater help young school children learn?

The men and women behind the Alliance Theatre certainly think so. In 2011, they began their Theatre for the Very Young program, which not only brings children into the theater, but brings theater — and all of its benefits — to them.

Myke Johns followed them to a performance at DeKalb County’s Coralwood School to find, around 8:15 a.m., an elephant in the school’s small auditorium space… along with a monkey and a peacock and a musical narrator.