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musical theater
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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…
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Perpich Students Attend Roger Guenveur Smith’s “In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat” at Penumbra Theatre
November 4, 2024
On October 23rd, Tory Peterson, Theater Instructor, brought several students to Penumbra Theatre to see Roger Guenveur Smith’s “In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat”. Obie Award-winning actor, playwright, and director, Roger Guenveur Smith, returned to Penumbra with an intimate one-man show honoring his…
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Members of Pangea World Theater Visit with Theater and Musical Theater Students about Political and Social Justice Theater
October 28, 2024
Perpich Theater and Musical Theater students welcomed special guests from Pangea World Theater to their classroom on Friday, October 25th. Sir Curtis Kirby III, Directing Fellow, and Sarah Tan, Education Lead, were invited to speak on political and social justice theater and…
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Rose McGee, Roslyn Harmon, and Mari Harris Speak about American Dream with Theater and Musical Theater Students
October 21, 2024
Perpich Theater and Musical Theater students welcomed three special guests in the classroom on Monday; Rose McGee, Roslyn Harmon, and Mari Harris were invited to speak about Juneteenth and the “American Dream.” That theme is being explored by Perpich Theater and Musical…
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Perpich Students Attend History Theatre’s “Behind the Sun”
Perpich students and staff attended the October 10th performance of “Behind the Sun” at History Theatre in downtown St. Paul.October 10, 2024
Nearly forty Perpich students and three instructors attended the October 10th performance of “Behind the Sun” at History Theatre…