A Killer Party: A Murder Musical is MD’s Theatrical Production for 2021

Image Source This year, the drama council proudly presents A Killer Party: A Murder Musical! This musical is about a rising Broadway director who is murdered in broad daylight in front of his cast. Now, an amateur detective with a distaste for theatre kids must try to find who did it, while the cast miserably quarantines in confined spaces which ascribes it to quarantining during … Continue reading A Killer Party: A Murder Musical is MD’s Theatrical Production for 2021

subText Schedule Announced!

The dates and showtimes for the next MDHS play have been released. subText by Tyler Dwiggins will be happening from May 8th to 10th at 7:00pm. This will be the first play since MD’s production of Grease in the 2015/2016 school year, and everybody can’t wait to see what is in store for this year. Synopsis “Even though everybody on the planet is just a … Continue reading subText Schedule Announced!

Mustangs Take Centre Stage at the National Theatre School Drama Festival

BY EMMA-GRACE CALLAN-BENNINK 5 actors, one stage. On Thursday, February 28th, Anna Mokina, Saad Khan and Amber Siddiqui, Emma-Grace Callan-Bennink took the stage as characters from the play Bivio Itineris. This year, the National Theatre School Drama Festival (or NTS) was held at Aldershot high school. The play, written by Catherine Pammenter and Emma-Grace Callan-Bennink, was a 20-minute one-act play featuring the story of a … Continue reading Mustangs Take Centre Stage at the National Theatre School Drama Festival

Meet the Cast of MD’s ‘subText’

IMAN UMAIR-QAISER Great news! The cast for our school play, subText by Tyler Dwiggins, has just been announced. Cast members are listed below. Students will begin reading the lines during the first practice today after school. The production of subText will run from May 8–10 in the MD Theatre. Congratulations to all those who were cast. Continue reading Meet the Cast of MD’s ‘subText’

Auditions for MD’s Newest Play to be Held in the Theatre Next Week

Ben Hartshorn On February 13th and 14th, auditions for Milton District’s newest play will be taking place after school in the theatre. Run by Tyler Dwiggins, subText will feature various accounts detailing the awkwardness of dating in the present-day digital age. To sign up for this opportunity to shine, students are asked to write their names down on a sign-up sheet posted outside the theatre. … Continue reading Auditions for MD’s Newest Play to be Held in the Theatre Next Week

School Play Delayed Indefinitely

Hunter Culhane MD’s Spring school play has been cancelled. The production of The Taming of the Shrew has ended due to a lack of male students auditioning for the male roles in the play. Last week, in an effort to motivate male students to audition, drama students went around to every class explaining what the play would be about and handed out audition forms. Unfortunately, … Continue reading School Play Delayed Indefinitely

MDHS’s 2019 Stage Production Is…

By Iman Umair-Qaiser Listen up, thespians! In 2019, after three years of theatrical hiatus, MD will be performing a stage production in 2019, a reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The play is one of Shakespeare’s most well-known, and it depicts the story of how the devious Petruchio ‘tames’ the headstrong Katherina into becoming a soft-spoken, obedient wife. Many have commented how this … Continue reading MDHS’s 2019 Stage Production Is…