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"Spring Awakening" follows a group of repressed teenagers discovering their sexuality and journeying through the emotional turbulence of adolescence.

A Controversial Awakening

The cast members of “Spring Awakening” discuss its controversial material in anticipation of its opening night.
Georgia Goldberg, Assistant A&E Editor
February 17, 2022

Gisele Stigi '22 gasped as a blue notification darted across her screen in late august of 2021, accompanied by an email announcing her senior year musical. Her jaw dropped as she read the title, "Spring...

Justyn Chang '18 and Henry Zumbrunnen '16 work on writing exercises for a playwrights workshop after school. Credit Ellis Becker/Chronicle

Alum hosts playwrights workshops after school

Ellis Becker
October 1, 2015

Alex Lewin ’94 hosted afternoon playwriting workshops for students Sept. 24-26. The Perry S. Goldman Playwriting Workshop taught students playwriting skills as a part of preparing for the Harvard-Westlake...

Auditions begin for ‘West Side Story’ production

Sacha Lin
August 31, 2015

Auditions began Monday for the upper school theater department’s 2015 fall musical "West Side Story". The musical is about gang warfare, but it is based on William Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet"...

US to produce “Company,” “As You Like It” next year

Marcella Park
May 21, 2014

"Company" will be the fall musical and "As You Like It" will be the winter play next year. "Company," with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth, will be directed by performing...

Drama students view ‘Pericles’ on field trip

Enya Huang
November 13, 2013

Students in Advanced Acting and Directing and the Actor and the Stage I and II attended a daytime performance of “Pericles” at A Noise Within Theatre in Pasadena Nov. 6 on the first-ever day-time field...

Students to perform ‘Cherry Orchard’ for winter production

Elizabeth Madden
January 28, 2013

A cast of 22 students will perform in Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" in Rugby Auditorium, Feb. 8-10. Director of the Theater Program Chris Moore is directing the production, which...

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