“Hate is not a Laramie value”, but it was. In Laramie, Wyoming during October of 1998, a 21 year old man named Matthew Shepard was senselessly beaten to death because of his sexual orientation. Two young Laramie men were charged with his death. After his death, playwright Moisés Kaufman and a team from Tectonic Theater […]
Romeo and Juliet Bishop Ireton High School Alexandria, VA Through November 15th Rehearsal is about to begin, and the cast is scattered throughout the auditorium. Some are huddled together in the aisles, quickly running through their lines and laughing about their day. Some are pushing their way through the stage doors, Starbucks in hand. A […]
The sun rises on Maycomb, Alabama, in 1935. The children are playing outside, the matrons are tending their flowers — and a lone voice, trapped behind a window screen, mourns the bloodshed and hate that so many in Maycomb are unwilling to see. So begins To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s tale of racial injustice […]
Two old women lead you into a cozy Brooklyn apartment and hand you a glass of their homemade elderberry wine. Do you take it? In Wakefield School’s performance of Arsenic and Old Lace, this question was answered. Arsenic and Old Lace was written by American Joseph Kesselring in 1939, and the successful show completed 1,444 […]
Here’s to drag queens, AIDS, and the taboo. Here’s to emotion, devotion, and to causing a commotion. Here’s to la vie boheme! This last weekend, Winston Churchill certainly did cause a commotion with their rendition of RENT: School Edition, that sparkled with its bohemian energy.
“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.” These words, spoken by Truvy Jones in the second act of Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, could not do a better job summing up the performance Osbourn High’s lovable cast delivered. Equipped with a script full of one-line zingers and tear-jerking moments, the cast shined on stage, easing […]
Read the review of the Cappies International Theater production of Anasazi: The Pahaana of the Prophecy.
Read the review of Cappies International Theater’s production of Starz! A Midsummer Night’s Frolic.
Toga Parties in the auditorium, a hippy principal, and dancing in the hallways: is this not like every high school? This past Saturday night Centreville performed their rendition of Senioritis. This musical was designed by a creative team led by the late William Strauss, one of the founders of the Cappies Critic Program, in October […]
With the cops on your tail, where’s a man to run the oldest established, permanent floating, crap game in New York? Set among the gangsters and gamblers of the 1940s, West Potomac High School’s recent energetic production of the musical Guys and Dolls certainly rocked the boat. Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls has been a […]