Inside Mason’s states-winning VHSL Theater performance
Sequoia Wyckoff, Features Editor
December 13, 2019
The George Mason VHSL theater team took first place at States at Monticello High School on December 3. Junior CC Meade and senior Ciara Curtin won Best Actor awards. But the team's process started long before December 3 - it took months of hard work and dedication to develop their performance of Rus...
Theater team makes Mason history at Regionals
Sequoia Wyckoff, Features Editor
November 21, 2019
If you had gone into the theater room during any Mustang block for the past two months, you would have seen Mason’s VHSL theater team - junior CC Meade, senior Ciara Curtin, and senior Johnny Goodwin - hard at work. On November 16, the VHSL team won first place at the regional competition at ...
Eight sneak peeks of “A Chorus Line”
Eva Williams, Staff Reporter
November 21, 2019
"A Chorus Line" will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 21, Friday, November 22, and Saturday, November 23 in the George Mason High School auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students, or $10 general admission. Learn more about the show here, and check out these sneak peeks from their November 20 rehearsal. ...
School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play brings the Mean Girls of Ghana to D.C.
Alex Schwartz, Staff Reporter
November 1, 2019
Hitting the Round House Theater at the start of September, School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play, is a hit in the realm of off-broadway performances. Set in central Ghana during 1986, School Girls is full of high school drama, with cliques, gossip, and of course: mean girls. Paula is the ...
“Curious” about the spring play?
Maggie Hicks, Staff Reporter
April 2, 2019
Like you, I don’t know what the spring play, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” is about. Here are the things I do know: The main character, Christopher (played by Senior Hansin Arvind), is an autistic boy who is 15 years, 3 months, and 2 days old. Something happens in h...
“Chicago” hits the stage
Rachel Doornbosch
November 15, 2018
Take a look at the best shots from this year's fall musical, Chicago. Don't miss it on November 15, 16, 17 at 7:30 p.m in the GM auditorium.
Fall musical auditions begin September 17
September 10, 2018
This year's fall musical is the popular, gangster-era piece "Chicago." The show is one of Broadway's longest-running ever featuring show-stopping song and dance.
“Spamalot” proves singing success
Grace Tarpgaard
November 27, 2017
Hilarious musical numbers, ridiculous slapstick choreography, and an absolutely silly storyline about the very serious King Arthur and his quest for the Holy Grail had audiences laughing in their seats for three nights during George Mason’s production of “Spamalot” last week. The show, which r...
Open the curtains for Alec Reusch
Chiara Tartaglino
April 24, 2017
The chill of the freshly fallen snow seeped in through the double doors of the theater wing as I sat across from George Mason High School’s very own Mr. Mason - Alec Reusch. We sat within eyesight of the stage, where the Mason student body, staff, and countless other family and friends have watc...
Lunch time!
Erin Dean, Editor-in-Chief
March 31, 2017
GM’s Northrip authors and directs spring play “Middle school is hard,” said theater teacher and director of this year’s play, Lunch!, Mr. Shawn Northrip. Unlike plays in George Mason’s past, Lunch! has a special tie to the GM community. Besides its relatability to every student’s middle school lunch experience, the playwrig...
‘Urinetown’ is unquestionable success
Julianna Markus
November 22, 2016
It’s Friday night, and there’s a sort of buzz to the air of the Mason auditorium as the audience sits in expectant wait for the second night of this year’s Fall musical: “Urinetown.” The theater seats are packed, the warm chatter of friends and family filling the space. The ensuing play wil...
Urinetown is here!
Annie Parnell
November 9, 2016
It’s been running through the halls ever since the first call for auditions came out: This year’s GMHS musical is all about pee. But let’s get our minds out of the gutter: “Urinetown” is three-time Tony-award winning musical written by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman. Performances of ...
