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The following was submitted by the Weston Drama Workshop:
Weston Drama Workshop, a nonprofit youth theater organization in its 62nd anniversary season, will stage six productions this month at Regis College, featuring participants entering Grade 5 through age 23.
Participants have been rehearsing for these productions since early June, and will perform at the Regis College Fine Arts Center between now and July 27.
With over 30 performances in the span of a jam-packed three weeks, Weston Drama Workshop continues its long-standing tradition of providing the MetroWest community and beyond with quality youth theater.
WDW’s younger ensemble — participants in the Morning Program and the Afternoon Program — will perform two productions: “Alice By Heart,” the touching musical based on “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and set in the rubble of the London Blitz of World War II, directed by Aidan O’Hara; and “Old Jake’s Skirts,” a one-act Theater for Young Audiences play about a lonely pumpkin farmer who finds an old trunk of calico skirts, directed by Callie Llewellyn.
The program’s older ensemble, ages 14–23, will perform three main stage musicals and one black box play. Audiences will explore the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives in “Six: Teen Edition,” directed by Julia Deter; experience Andrew Lloyd Webber’s enthralling score in “The Phantom of the Opera,” directed by Chris Brindley; follow two revolutionaries as they try to save rock ‘n’ roll against the backdrop of music by Queen in “We Will Rock You,” directed by Skylar Grossman; and witness Sarah Ruhl’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in “Eurydice,” directed by Tristan Burke.
Among the young actors performing in these shows is Winchester resident Fiona Zambuto, who appears as a Gaga Kid in “We Will Rock You.”
Tickets are available at westondramaworkshop.org, and questions can be directed to the box office at 781-768-7070.
All performances are held at Regis College’s air-conditioned Fine Arts Center.
The performance schedule is as follows:
• “Alice By Heart:” Tuesday, July 23 at 7 p.m.; Thursday, July 25 at 10:30 a.m.
• “Old Jake’s Skirts:” Wednesday, July 24 at 5 p.m.; Friday, July 26 at 5 p.m.
• “The Phantom of the Opera:” Friday, July 26 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, July 27 at 2 p.m.
• “We Will Rock You:” Thursday, July 25 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, July 27 at 8 p.m.
• “Eurydice:” Tuesday, July 23 at 8 p.m.; Wednesday, July 24 at 9 p.m.; Thursday, July 25 at 7 p.m.; Friday, July 26 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, July 27 at 5 p.m.
