Theatre at Kent DenverDive into roles that transport actors and audiences alike. Through our acting classes and extracurricular theatre activities, students learn to take the stage and transform the set while putting on high-caliber productions.
Announcing Kent Denver's 2024-25 Theater Season
Please join us for the following theater productions during the 2024-25 school year. Showtimes and locations can be found on the accompanying poster.
Upper School Fall Play: Clue: On Stage
November 7-9
Middle School Play: My Fair Share of the Sun
December 18
Upper School Musical: Once Upon a Mattress
February 6-8
Middle School One Acts
February 13
Storytelling Through Song: An Original Musical Revue
April 24-25
Middle School Musical: James and the Giant Peach Jr.
May 8-9
Acting
Students interested in the dramatic arts have a wide array of classes and extracurricular offerings to choose from each year. In middle school, students in 6th grade are exposed to the basics of theatre as part of their arts rotation. In 7th and 8th grade, students practice communication skills and gain confidence on stage through Theatre 1 and 2.
In the two-year, conservatory-style Acting I and II sequence in the Upper School, students are introduced to and explore basic techniques in acting through movement, physical and vocal exercises, improvisation, script analysis, scene work, monologues and short plays.
In Guerilla Rep Honors, students work together to devise and stage original theatrical pieces for performance. Ensemble members are responsible for all creative and technical elements of production, discovering all that our theatre program has to offer.
Technical Theatre
As part of the Upper School Technical Theatre Workshop, students work year-round to maintain the theatrical spaces, make general improvements to the arts facilities and support both the Upper School Fall Play and Winter Musical while also providing technical support for all events happening in the Student Center for the Arts.
Advanced technical theatre students have the opportunity to participate in an asynchronous program that supports all assemblies, programs and after school theatrical events as part of Practicum in Advanced Technical Theatre. Students enrolled in this program not only gain credit for their time, but they are paid to support Kent Denver programs in the arts facilities that occur outside of normal school hours.
Extracurricular Offerings
Upper School students have the opportunity to participate in extracurricular theatre opportunities throughout the year, including the Fall Play, Winter Musical and spring One-Act Play Festival.
- Past Upper School Productions:
- Little Women
- Fiddler On the Roof
- The House of Bernarda Alba
- The Wizard of Oz
- Clue: On Stage
In the Middle School, students can participate in Winter One-Acts as an extracurricular or the Fall Play and Spring Musical for class credit.
- Past Middle School Productions:
- Matilda Jr.
- The Still Life of Iris
- Willy Wonka Jr.
- The Many Disguises of Robin Hood
- Newsies Jr.
Kent Denver Theatre Productions
Enjoy these photo galleries from Kent Denver's recent theatre productions!