Students have the opportunity to audition for a wide range of plays each year from classical to contemporary, realistic to abstract. Students are also encouraged to learn about backstage operations including construction of props, costumes, and set pieces, as well as the nuts and bolts of stage lighting and sound, and the essentials of promotion, and publicity.
Theatre is a collaborative art form.
Students are encouraged to make a commitment to the work and to each other with open-minded patience and trust. By communicating and collaborating, participants can create together what no single individual could do alone. By working on a wide variety of plays and projects, students have opportunity to experience what it might be like to live in another place, culture or time in history, or simply in the realm of imagination. Whenever possible, students will have opportunity to work with guest artists such as fight choreographers, improv specialists, mask and movement artists , and stage dialect and voice experts. Past products have included musicals like Guys and Dolls, contemporary comedies such as Brighton Beach Memoirs, old favorites such as Arsenic and Old Lace, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Crucible, The Miracle Worker, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream.