The theater students at West Springfield High School are used to making shows happen fast–they just threw together a quality production of Is He Dead? in less than a month, complete with student-designed and built sets. Director Mary Jo Levesque said that the cast of the play first got into the auditorium to start rehearsing on November 3. As the set had to be built onstage–nowhere else was big enough–the actors had to practice around the sound of construction as well. "We're throwing this thing together at rapid fire speed like we always do at West Springfield because of the demands that …

 Just a few days before Summer Brave opened at Robinson, Director Chip Rome was worried about milk. The white paint filling the milk bottles carried by a secondary character in the play looked a little too thin for the 1950s romantic drama. "Make it look like four percent full milk – the type you're not supposed to drink any more," Chip Rome told a techie. "Everyone drank it back then." Rome's attention to detail ranges beyond dairy products – he's been working with his cast for eight weeks of rehearsal to get every scene just right for the play that is Robinson's entry in Cappies, a review …

The arrival of autumn brings about many annual events, but one time-honored tradition that can't be missed is the high school play season. Each year, the Lake Braddock Theatre Company performs one Shakespeare play. Director R. L. Mirabal likes to put his own spin on things: Last year was a Terminator-inspired version of Macbeth, while this year's production of The Tempest takes cues from popular television series Lost. "I've thought about it for years, the connections between the two," he said, admitting that he is a "little bit" of a Lost fan. The play is filled with visual and auditory …