Arts : Theater

Theater

Mission
The key words are opportunity (giving everybody a chance), experience (learning by doing), excellence (the phrase "high school drama" should never be an excuse for mediocrity), and ensemble (working together).

Schedule
We produce three to four major shows each year plus a One-Act Festival with eight to ten student-directed pieces.

Current Season
This season we are producing Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Lord of the Flies, and Equus. Our musical is Into the Woods. We will also be producing our annual student-directed One-Act Festival in April. 

Recent shows
Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz, Titanic, Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam, Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stewart and Merrill's Carnival, The Manhattan Project's Alice In Wonderland, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Brian Friel's Dancing At Lughnasa, Frederico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding, Don Nigro's The Curate, Shakespeare's As You Like It, and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children.

Classes  
Click here for curriculum guide.

Single-term elective courses for academic credit are offered in a number of areas:

Playwriting—Students write an original one-act play, developing it through three successive drafts. A few of these scripts may be selected by students in the directing class for possible production in the annual One-Act Festival.

Directing—Students select, cast, rehearse, and produce an extended scene or complete one-act play. While it is not a course requirement, most students elect to submit their productions for possible inclusion in the annual One-Act Festival.

Acting—Students in this term-long course may range from inexperienced to seasoned performers. The course may be repeated for credit.

Theater Production
Two levels of this course provide an introduction to basic stagecraft skills and an opportunity to pursue more advanced work in set design, lighting, costuming, or related areas.

Performance spaces
The Rhodes Arts Center's end stage theater with orchestra pit and full technical support, as well as advanced lighting and recording capabilities, seats 200.

Philosophy
The key words here are Opportunity (giving everybody a chance), Experience (learning by doing), Excellence (the phrase "high school drama" should never be an excuse for mediocrity), and Ensemble (working together).