New after school theater club at South Tahoe Middle School

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. - Lights. Camera. Action! Tahoe Arts Project is launching a new after-school theater club at South Tahoe Middle School on March 12 to give all students access to the performing arts.

ACT ONE is meant to help fill a void for middle school-aged student’s hunger for creative expression, given the absence of drama and other arts programming available to students at a critical developmental age.

ACT ONE will offer children more opportunities to directly engage in performing arts as actors, and also in supporting roles. Students can participate as assistant directors, working with small groups of students and individuals on lines and scenes, managing the backstage during productions and helping with costumes, set design, and other tasks as needed. The production will be a musical and students will have the opportunity to sing and dance.

Rehearsals will be taking place Mondays and Fridays starting March 12 in room 2 at STMS from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Starting three weeks prior to the production students will also meet on Wednesdays immediately after school 1:00 p.m to 2:30 p.m. The musical production will be held in early June. Students can enroll by adding their name to the sign-up sheet at the counselor’s office at the STMS.

Tahoe Arts Project is accepting donations to help support a stipend for their director and STMS teacher liaison, materials for the stage set and costumes, and to help publicize the musical production. Donors will be recognized in the production program and the TAP website.

To donate: http://tahoeartsproject.org/act-one-theater/. For more information call Kim Carr for more information: 530-416-1345.