Weston Drama Workshop Launches 60th Season

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WESTON – Weston Drama Workshop, a nonprofit youth summer theater organization based out of Regis College’s Fine Arts Center in Weston, recently announced this summer’s lineup of productions to be performed in July as part of their 60th Anniversary Season.

Founded in 1962 and incorporated in 1963, WDW has been proudly producing high-quality shows starring local youth performers in the Weston community ever since.

After a hiatus in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, participants and staff were thrilled to return to the Regis stage last summer—and 2022’s slate of productions offers a broad range of theater experiences for performers and audiences alike.

Tuck Everlasting, based on the popular novel by Natalie Babbitt, will be this summer’s Morning Program musical, featuring actors entering 5th grade through 9th grade. The story of an eleven-year-old girl who becomes unexpectedly entwined with the immortal Tuck family, Tuck Everlasting features music and lyrics by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, and will be directed by Aidan O’Hara. Some students in
this same age range will also participate in the Afternoon Theatre Intensive program, which will stage the Theater for Young Audiences production Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventures, based on the book by Lois Lowry and directed by Callie Llewellyn. Fewer than ten spots currently remain in the Morning Program, and five remain in the Afternoon Program.

WDW will also produce four productions as a part of their Evening Program, which serves participants entering 9th grade through age 23. This year’s shows are Something Rotten!, the outrageous musical farce that mashes up sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway, directed by Chris Brindley; Young Frankenstein, an adaptation of the monstrously funny Mel Brooks movie, directed by Skylar Grossman; Indecent, the powerful drama written by Paula Vogel and directed by Stephanie Manning; and Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play by Luigi Pirandello which tests the boundaries of reality and illusion, directed by Tristan Burke.

Auditions for this summer’s season will occur in May, and are open to participants entering 5th grade through age 23. All shows will be performed July 21–30 at the Regis College Fine Arts Center, and tickets will go on sale to the public later this spring. For further information on these productions, and to register for the 60th season, visit www.westondramaworkshop.org.

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