Students interested in auditioned stage acting and behind-the-scenes experience have opportunities at all grade levels. The SCLA 350-seat auditorium is home to several theatre productions each year.
Each spring, middle school art and choral students perform in an age-appropriate musical or a play. On stage or behind the scenes, participating in drama exercises important life skills like empathy, teamwork, and memorization.
High school students interested in acting or producing a theatrical performance (sound/lights, set design/construction) have the opportunity to participate in a fall children’s theater production, a winter musical, and a spring play.
October 14, 2023 - Children's Theatre
The 33 Little Pigs by Brian D. Taylor
February 16-18, 2024 - Musical
Cinderella - Broadway Version
April 19-21, 2024 - Play
Radium Girls by DW Gregory
2023 Children's Theatre: Hansel & Gretel 2023 Musical: Fiddler on the Roof 2023 Play: I Hate Shakespeare
$15 Adult | $10 Student (K-12) | $12 Senior | $5.00 Child (4 and under) Please note that all seats marked with the ADA symbol accommodate a transfer from a wheelchair but WILL NOT ACCOMMODATE A WHEELCHAIR. There is no space available for wheelchairs in the auditorium. Please call (651) 455-1521 if you need more information.
Competition Version
by D.W. Gregory Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., of Woodstock, Illinois.
Playtime
75 minutes
Themes
The culture of compliance creates victims.
Holding big corporations accountable.
Genre
Drama
Intended Audience
A play for family audiences. Suitable for educational theater and youth theater.
“…a genuine theatrical gift.” – CHICAGO STAGE REVIEW
“Radium Girls may speak to our collective capacity for denial. But it also celebrates our individual courage.” – THE DAILY RECORD, MORRISTOWN, N.J.
“… a playwright with a talent to enlighten and provoke.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES
Radium Girls Awards
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Finalist, New Harmony Project
National Endowment for the Arts Production Grant
Best New Play of 1999 – 2000, Newark Star-Ledger
Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project Grant, 2001
Winner, Best Production, The Burlington Players, AACTFEST 2013
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Synopsis
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation but also with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece for 10 actors, who play more than 30 parts—friends, coworkers, lovers, relatives, attorneys, scientists, consumer advocates and myriad interested bystanders. Called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth and the commercialization of science. (Source)