It is that time of year when the Westfield Public Schools community looks forward to Fall theater productions and celebrating the considerable talents of the cast, crew, and theater directors at Edison and Roosevelt Intermediate Schools and Westfield High School. Mark your calendars for the following:
Roosevelt Intermediate School presents William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, with a matinee performance at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 26 and evening performances at 7:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, October 27 and 28. In this romantic comedy, the audience will follow a love quadrangle made only more complicated by some meddlesome fairies, a troupe of terrible actors, and magical hijinks. Tickets are available online at ris.booktix.net.
The Edison Theatre Department will present “PUFFS, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic.” A matinee of this parody of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter will be held on Thursday, November 2 at 4:00 p.m., with evening performances on Friday, November 3 and Saturday, November 4 at 7:00 p.m. As the date of the production nears, tickets will be available for purchase at eis.booktix.net.
The Westfield High School Theatre Department will present “Antigone”, an adaptation based on one of the great Greek tragedies by Sophocles. A matinee performance will be held on Thursday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m., followed by evening performances on Friday and Saturday, November 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets will become available for purchase at whstd.booktix.net as the production nears..