Clarksville High School Theatre to present “The Miracle Worker” November 1st-4th

Clarksville, TN – Clarksville High School Theatre will kick off its 2016-17 season with “The Miracle Worker”, the celebrated drama by William Gibson about Helen Keller and her life-long companion and teacher Annie Sullivan.

The production will run for four performances –November 1st-4th at 7:00pm in the Main Stage Theatre at Clarksville High School. Tickets are $5.00 and can be purchased at the door on the evening of performance. Please contact director Barbara Wesner at 931.648.5690 ext. 2521 for reservations or questions.

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Clarksville High School Theatre begins Season with Original Play, “Run!”

Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville High School Theatre will kick off its 2013-14 season on Friday, November 1st with the opening of an original play by David Wesner.

The CHS production stars Jacob Sullivan in the primary role. Jacob is supported by Nic Hadden, Lane Chisenhall, Delany Atkins, Samantha Grimes, Jordan Sherley, Shaoyun Yang, Ashley Knowles, Lauren Pierce, Nigel Nyberg, Megan Beane and Daniel Ellis.

RUN! is about a random act of violence. Though the audience never sees the violence, the effect it has on a classroom full of students is clearly seen and felt. [Read more]

Clarksville High School Theatre Opens its 2010-2011 Season

Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville High School Theatre opens its 2010-11 theatre season tonight with Margaret Edson’s powerful play WIT. This year, director Barbara Wesner has chosen a mature, moving drama that chronicles and celebrates the life of Vivian Bearing, a noted English professor of the seventeenth-century metaphysical poet John Donne.

At the rise of the play, Bearing steps to the edge of the stage and informs the audience that she has been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic ovarian cancer. She continues by saying, “It is not my intention to give away the plot, but I think I die at the end. They’ve given me less than two hours.”

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