Straight to the Stars Youth Theatre

Straight to the Stars Youth Theatre produces an audition-based straight (non-musical) play starring High School actors (rising freshmen through graduating seniors) during the summer. Straight plays generally have smaller casts, so these productions offer our oldest youth actors the opportunity to more fully develop their acting skills and delve into their characters in a smaller community of actors.

Straight to the Stars' inaugural production was Cheaper by the Dozen in August 2019, directed by Annie Rice and starring students from over half of Williamson County's high schools plus several home school groups. Performances were in the beautiful Williamson County Performing Arts Center at Academy Park.

In the summer of 2020, Straight to the Stars produced a socially-distanced blocked production of the Check Please trilogy and, in the Spring of 2021, Erin Laming directed a workshop class of Shakespeare's The Tempest. The Summer 2021 production was the murder mystery farce, While the Lights Were Out, by Jack Sharkey, and for the summer of 2022, Straight to the Stars produced 2 sold out performances of Anne of Green Gables, adapted by Joseph Robinette, from the novel by L.M. Montgomery, both directed by Annie Rice. The summer 2023 production was Ghostlight by Stephen Gregg, directed by Tyler Worden.

 
The summer of 2024 production will be She Kills Monsters, directed by Deidra Alexander, with auditions on April 18 and rehearsals in the evenings starting the week of June 17. Performances will be August 9-10, 2024 at the Williamson County Performing Arts Center. For all of the information on this production and ability to sign up for auditions, go to our Auditions page HERE. 

For further information contact Alison Worden at alison.worden@williamsoncounty-tn.gov or 615-786-0186 ext. 2513. 

If you have questions about any of our Youth Theatre programs, please email Alison Worden at alison.worden@williamsoncounty-tn.gov.