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Winter Auditions!

You were one of the 50 out of 2000 Newton Students with the courage to audition this week!  Thank you!
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Cast lists will be posted this weekend ASAP. 

Winter Audition Info Here!

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The South Stage Approach
​to Theater/Life Balance

Our season is set! Get ready for
​HEARTS LIKE FISTS
directed by Dr. Lellock!

2 Men, 5 Kick-Ass Women.

THE STORY: A superhero noir comedy about the dangers of love. The city's heart beats with fear: Doctor X is sneaking into apartments and injecting lovers with a lethal poison. Lisa's heart beats with hope: Now that she's joined the elite Crimefighters, maybe she can live a life with meaning. And every beat of Peter's wounded heart brings him closer to death, but he's designing an artificial replacement that will never break. Can the Crimefighters stop Doctor X? Do Peter and Lisa have a chance at love? And who is the girl with a face like a plate?

​"Parody and punches fly…The combination is madcap. Pretty hysterical too." —NY Times. "So much fun…comic-book action and delicious one-liners…exhilarating, nerdy-sexy, and silly-smart." —LA Times. "…the colorful energy of a comic book [and] the dialogue is smart, self-aware, and wickedly funny. It's hard to imagine a better night at the theater." —i09.com. "A fun, twisted exploration of what it means when someone Hulk-smashes your heart on the ground into a million pieces…It's goofy. It's absurd. But it hits hard where it counts—right in the ticker." —Village Voice.

We want a "Standing O" on every show!

In order to get a Gender Parity  "Standing O" designation, a production must meet three of five criteria:
  • Have a female director
  • Have a female playwright
  • Employ at least a 50 percent female cast
  • Employ at least 50 percent female design team
  • Tell a female-centered story

Read more about the development of the Standing O by StageSource of Boston.

South Stage Spirit IS School Spirit

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The Purpose and Mission of South Stage
The purpose of educational theatre is to help students become ethical, thoughtful, and compassionate adults by telling engaging stories with sophisticated characters in challenging situations. Our students learn how to be adults by experiencing the complexities of life in the relative safety of theatre.

To that end, South Stage is dedicated to:
  • Facilitating artistic collaboration among a diverse company of students and professional theatre artists
  • Developing creative expression, teamwork, and communication skills through the theatre arts
  • Producing plays that challenge and educate ourselves and the Newton South community
“If you don’t believe that the theatre has the ability to make us better people—and by ‘better’ I mean more caring, more informed, more passionately committed human beings—then there is going to be very little dialogue between us.”
--Terrence McNally, playwright
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