Just about now, millions of teenagers are shopping for dresses, renting tuxedos, and undergoing the incredibly stressful process of planning the perfect prom night. But imagine the dilemma one girl faces as she tries to decide whether or not to attend her senior prom – not because her parents don’t approve of her boyfriend, but […]
You know it’s a fairy tale when a man chooses a wife based on her shoe size, and they still manage to live happily ever after. But, as Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother sings, “Impossible things are happening every day,” and C.D. Hylton High School’s spunky production of Cinderella embraced the colorful possibilities of a world where […]
The social revolution of the Sixties, the birth of feminism, and one woman’s quest for identity- each combined to form a complex picture of women’s place in society in The Heidi Chronicles, poignantly performed by H-B Woodlawn Secondary School.
It’s late. The soft grass of the Jackson, Indiana is swaying silently in the midnight wind. Drunk and out on the porch, a beleaguered American father confesses in his drunken stupor, “My little girl, she is twenty four now and she’s never taken a step. Can’t work her to walking; can’t pray her to walking. […]
Scrumptious sweets, cascades of candy, a whole river of chocolate – Little Charlie Bucket is in for the trip of a lifetime! Sugar-rushed energy and extravagant visual delights made Briar Woods High School’s production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a delectable treat.
If you could have everything you ever wanted: fame, fortune or maybe that cute coworker you’ve been crushing on for a while, to what lengths would you go to achieve those dreams? This is the moral dilemma characterized in the hit musical Little Shop of Horrors.
“If it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it!” says Cogsworth, the diligent and tightly wound mantle clock of Thomas S. Wootton High School’s production of Beauty and the Beast. And why should they fix it? Thomas S. Wootton’s production was simply delightful. It met and exceeded some very high expectations.
A stage is set with two gigantic toilets and the words “Urinetown” written on a ratty old sheet hanging between them. Not exactly the typical set for a supposedly brilliant musical. Even Little Sally, a character in the play, says, “Urinetown? Who would want to see a musical with a name like that?” Although the […]
“Revenge is a dish best served cold,” or so it is said. In Montgomery Blair High School’s production of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a grief-stricken barber and his accomplice discover that in their case, vengeance is all the better when served piping hot.
Playwright Thornton Wilder once described Our Town as “a little play with all the big subjects in it.” Duke Ellington School of the Arts tackled “the big subjects” in the play with grace and determination Thursday evening in a standout production of Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner.