Theatre Arts

Every year we invite all students to audition for our Fall Play.

A team of experienced faculty and upper school students support the cast and crew as they engage with all aspects of production, encouraging students to take risks not only on the stage as performers, but behind the scenes as designers, composers, technicians and managers.

This experience requires students to collaborate fully, embrace responsibility, and strive for excellence. Past productions include The Giver, Animal Farm, Wizard of Oz, The Pirates of Penzance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Fiddler on the Roof.

We invite all students to audition for roles as cast or crew members in classic plays, from the ancient to the modern period.  The drama faculty trains students to take on full responsibility for all aspects of production, and delights to witness the vigor with which students rise to this challenge.

Past productions include Hamlet, Oliver Twist!, The Crucible, Eumenides, Twelfth Night, Our Town, Waiting for Godot.

Every spring the drama faculty invites seniors to participate in choosing and casting a play that explores their particular concerns and questions. Through drama praxis, they encounter, examine and embody the issue or issues they seek to address. They emerge from this experience not only better able to articulate their concerns (a phenomenon witnessed by audiences during the talk-backs), but also better established in their identity as a class and in their identities as young men and women ready for the college experience.

Previous productions include August Wilson’s Fences and Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park.