Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Spring 2011]
April 22, 2011 – 8:18 am |

Norwood High School Drama  presents Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, running April 29th and 30th and again May 6th and 7th at 7pm at Norwood’s Savage Center.

Gods mix with mortals, a feuding king and queen unleash magical practical jokes on one another, spells yield improbable love affairs, and a band of comical tradesmen wander into an enchanted wood and are transformed in the most unlikely ways in Shakespeare’s most popular and enduring comedy.

Working with Norwood’s high school drama teacher ..read more Read the full story »

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Red Noses: Spring ’08
April 29, 2008 – 2:42 pm |
Red Noses: Spring ’08

A bawdy comedy about the Black Death written by Peter Barnes, directed by Dean Calusdian, and produced by Norwood Drama, “Red Noses” takes place in 1349, at the height of the Black Plague and features the many talents of Norwood High School’s drama students. Can it get any zanier than that?

A monk, played by Norwood High Junior Joe Ouellette, receives a sign from God that his duty is to make the sick and dying laugh. He forms a troupe ..read more

Red Noses: Bring Out Your Dead!
April 26, 2008 – 12:29 pm |

A bawdy comedy about the Black Death written by Peter Barnes, directed by Dean Calusdian, and produced by Norwood Drama, “Red Noses” takes place in 1349, at the height of the Black Plague and features the many talents of Norwood High School’s drama students. Can it get any zanier than that?

A monk, played by Norwood High Junior Joe Ouellette, receives a sign from God that his duty is to make the sick and dying laugh. He forms a troupe ..read more

The Man Who Came To Dinner: Summer ’08
March 28, 2008 – 2:28 pm |
The Man Who Came To Dinner: Summer ’08

A comedy in three acts written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Dean Calusdian, and jointly produced by the New Prospect Players and Norwood Drama, “The Man Who Came to Dinner” will be performed on June 19th, 20th, and 21st at Norwood’s Savage Center.

Tracy Northrup plays the well-known, egomaniacal, blustering, manipulative, and witty writer/radio personality Sheridan Whiteside, of New York City, on a reading tour of the heartland accompanied by his faithful secretary, Maggie Cutler (Evelyn Seijido). ..read more

The Man Who Came to Dinner: Auditions
March 28, 2008 – 5:28 am |

A comedy in three acts written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Dean Calusdian, and produced by the New Prospect Players, “The Man Who Came to Dinner” will be performed on June 19th, 20th, 21st at Norwood’s Savage Center.

AUDITIONS: Actors will perform cold readings from the script.

April 1st and 2nd from 7 – 9pm.

PERFORMANCES:

June 19th, June 20th, June 21st at 7pm

Performances and auditions are held at Norwood’s Savage Center. Tickets available at the door.

Norwood One-Acts: Winter ’08
January 1, 2008 – 2:43 pm |
Norwood One-Acts: Winter ’08 Thursday, January 24 at 7pm Friday, January 25 at 7pm Saturday, January 26 at 2pm and 7pm Friday, February 1 at 7pm

Performances held at Norwood’s Savage Center. For ticket information, contact Jody Smith (Backstage Boosters) at 1.781.769.4224

It’s a Wonderful Life: George Bailey is in a very bad place …
November 13, 2007 – 2:32 pm |
It’s a Wonderful Life: George Bailey is in a very bad place …

Norwood High School Drama presents It’s a Wonderful Life: November 19th—December 15th, 2007

Norwood High School Drama Department presents a stage adaptation of the Frank Capra holiday classic story It’s a Wonderful Life, transporting audiences back to Christmas Eve 1946 and a time in which George Bailey is in a very bad place. Fast-paced and both comic and tragic, Director John Quinn (Norwood High School’s drama teacher) and Assistant Director and Norwood student Mike Small have worked together with ..read more

Dreams & Schemes: Fall ’07
November 2, 2007 – 2:47 pm |

It’s a Wonderful Life: Fall ’07
October 8, 2007 – 2:45 pm |
Thursday, November 29 at 7pm Friday, November 30 at 7pm Saturday, December 1 at 7pm Sunday, December 2 at 2pm Friday, December 14 at 7pm Saturday, December 15 at 7pm

Norwood High School Drama Department presents a stage adaptation of the Frank Capra holiday classic story It’s a Wonderful Life, transporting audiences back to Christmas Eve 1946 and a time in which George Bailey is in a very bad place. Fast-paced and both comic and tragic, Director John Quinn (Norwood High School’s drama teacher) ..read more

Norwood Drama explores pop-infused social turmoil in Pippin
September 8, 2007 – 1:08 pm |

For immediate release, August 12, 2007 Contact: John Quinn 1.508.384.3094 / 1.617.678.5395 ejohnquinn@yahoo.com / pippin@norwooddrama.com

Norwood High School Drama presents Pippin: September 14th—23rd, 2007

Norwood, MA—Norwood High School Drama presents Stephen Schwartz’s pop-infused time capsule of a musical comedy—Pippin—exploring the role of an idealistic kid who happens to be the son of a world ruler, in an era of social turmoil.

Schwartz, the award-winning composer of “Wicked” and “Godspell ,” along with the legendary Bob Fosse, created one of Broadway’s most unique and memorable ..read more

Four one-act comedies from the New Prospect Players of Norwood!
September 6, 2007 – 8:39 am |

Mark your calendars for Friday, November 2nd and Saturday, November 3rd, as Norwood’s New Prospect Players will perform four one-act comedies at the Savage Center.

The theme tying together the fourth production of the Norwood-based community theatre is Dreams & Schemes. Proceeds support our local school’s theatre programs.