Theatre at Morris Catholic is a dynamic and engaging program that reaches out to all students who wish to grow as performers, theatre technicians, directors, and playwrights. Whether you have been acting all of your life, or are just getting started, you will find your voice at Morris Catholic.

Morris Catholic encourages students to participate in both athletics and arts and offers both curricular and extracurricular theatre opportunities so students are not limited by their schedules.

Theatre Curriculum

Theatre Studies 1

Grade: 9

This is an exciting course covering various aspects of theatre. The course will include workshops on voice and speech, mime, acting, performance, costuming, lighting and sound, and producing and directing. Students will be expected to participate fully in all performance activities in class. There will be classes in the theory and history of theatre. Enthusiasm, energy, and a desire to learn are the only prerequisites for this course.

Theatre Studies 2

Theatre Studies 3 & 4 Honors

Production & Extracurricular

Fall Play

This year's fall play is Twelfth Night! Tickets are on sale for our fall play, 12th Night! Performances are Thursday, 11/21, Friday 11, 22 at 7 pm, Saturday, 11/23 at 2 and 7 pm, and Sunday, 11/24 at 2 pm.

Visit the link below to reserve your tickets now! The KPAC is set up to hold 90 audience members, so please reserve your tickets now: MC Box Office

We begin the production season with a non-musical play which is selected based on the talents of the students. These productions are performed in the KPAC (Kneuven Performing Arts Center) with up to six performances of each show. Selections rotate through comedy, drama, classical, and contemporary selections. Previous productions include: The Play That Goes Wrong, Radium Girls, Inherit the Wind, You Can't Take It With You, Little Women, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The The Crucible, Our Town.

Winter One Act

Spring Musical

Spring Musical: large-scale production, featuring close to 100 students every year in the cast, crew, and orchestra. Rehearsal goes from January until late April or early May when the show is performed. All are welcome, and no one is cut from the production. Past productions include: Into the Woods, 42nd Street, Big Fish, Footloose, Ragtime, Titanic, Les Miserables, Fame, Godspell.

Box Office

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This year's fall play, Twelfth Night, features five performances in one weekend in our KPAC. The show will feature multiple casts and a dedicated crew made up of students. Over forty students will be involved in this production. Featuring two casts, musical performances, and a dedicated team of student stage and tech crew, 12th Night will be a hilarious and beautiful production for the MC Community! Get your tickets at the Box Office link above!

2023-2024 Season Highlights

This year's fall play, The Play That Goes Wrong, featured six performances in one weekend in our KPAC. The show featured multiple casts and dedicated crew made up of students. Over forty students were involved in this production. This play performed to record numbers of audience member, included a dress rehearsal for eighth-graders from four Catholic elementary schools.

Theatre Studies 3 & 4 Honors are proud to present their original one-act play, Picture Perfect. The play is completely written, directed and produced by the students in honors-level theatre class and features the talents of our current ninth and tenth graders. The play told the story of what happens when a family is mysteriously called together for dinner, and what joy and chaos ensue.

The 2024 Spring Musical, Godspell was a powerful showcase of the power of community at Morris Catholic. Using the updated script and score from the 2011 Broadway Revival, this production occurred on April 25, 26 and 27 in our gymnasium. The show's director, Ms. Amy Bauer, first saw Godspell at Morris Catholic 2020, and went on to direct it during her first year teaching at Morris Catholic in 2011. The show featured the talents of 30 elementary school students from12 different public and Catholic elementary schools.

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