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Perpich Arts High School Theater Department Presents “Senior Capstone 2025”
May 19, 2025
The Perpich Arts High School Theater Department presented “Senior Capstone 2025” on Thursday, May 15th and Friday, May 16th. “Senior Capstone 2025” was made up of four solo performances and two short plays.
Performances consisted of:Charli Pedersen (Musical Theater 2025) – an…
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Perpich Arts High School Musical Theater Ensemble Presents “Pop Up Musical”
May 12, 2025
In the style of VH1’s Pop-Up Video series (and perhaps even a bit of Mystery Science Theater 3000), the members of Company presented “Pop Up Musical”, an energetic variety show of Broadway musical hits on May 8 and 9, 2025. The performances…
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Greta Kunene (Musical Theater 2025) Wins State Speech Title
April 30, 2025
Congratulations to Greta Kunene (Musical Theater 2025) who won the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Class A State Championship for Serious Interpretation of Drama at the 2025 State Speech Tournament! The event took place on April 25, 2025 at Shakopee High…
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Perpich Arts High School Theater Ensemble Presents “Runaways”
March 17, 2025
The Perpich Arts High School Theater Ensemble presented “Runaways” over a four-show run March 13th through March 15th. “Runaways” is a musical which was written, composed, choreographed, and directed by Elizabeth Swados, about the lives of children who run away from home…
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Greta Kunene (Musical Theater 2025) Visits Chicago for 2025 National Unified Auditions
February 6, 2025
Greta Kunene (Musical Theater 2025) in front of the Palmer House hotel, where the auditions were held.Every February, inside the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, the theater departments of several dozen colleges converge to hold the National Unified…
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Perpich Theater and Musical Theater Students Attend Gallery Tours at Walker Art Center
January 27, 2025
Perpich Theater and Musical Theater students and Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, attended gallery tours at the Walker Art Center on January 17th and January 24th. These tours served as preliminary work for the Luigi Jannuzzi Project in which Perpich students will be…
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Kevin Kjonaas with Avenues for Youth Visits with Theater and Musical Theater Students to Discuss Youth Homelessness
January 22, 2025
Perpich Theater and Musical Theater students welcomed special guest, Kevin Kjonaas with Avenues for Youth, to their classroom on Wednesday, January 22nd. Kevin is Associate Director of Development & Communications for Avenues and was invited to speak on youth homelessness. That theme…
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Perpich Arts High School Theater Ensemble Presents “Montage of an American dream deferred”
December 16, 2024
The Perpich Arts High School Theater Ensemble presented “Montage of an American dream deferred” on Thursday, December 12th and Friday, December 13th. The production was a newly devised verbatim play, a type of documentary theater that uses the exact words of real…
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Perpich Students Attend University of Minnesota Performance of “Cabaret” at Rarig Center
November 21, 2024
On November 20th, Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, and Bob Frey, Social Studies Instructor, brought a busload of 36 Perpich students from an array of arts areas to the Rarig Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota to see a production…
