• FINALS WEEK 11/19-21
  • 11/19: Girls wrestling @ City
  • 11/21: Girls wrestling vs. Liberty @ Home
  • 11/21-23: All-State Music Festival
  • 11/22: Girls basketball @ Solon
  • NO SCHOOL 11/22
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Summer theater performances

Summer theater performances

Carter Birch Houchins-Witt, Print Entertainment Editor
June 8, 2024
Boys don’t participate in art-related activities as much as we should. The community is awesome and it grants you the ability to express yourself.

For the boys

Carter Birch Houchins-Witt, Print Entertainment Editor
April 23, 2024
Photo courtesy of Jenny Struthers Jarrett Hinrichs ’24 and Xion-Owens-Holst ’24 converse about the zombie apocalypse on Jan. 11th.

SPIT show occurs in the Little Theatre

Carter Birch Houchins-Witt, Print Entertainment Editor
January 30, 2024
Adam Knight, Kathleen Johnson and Aaron Stonerook introduce A Long Walk in the Woods to West Students Feb. 10.

West students watch A Walk in the Woods at Riverside Theatre

Anna Song and Marie Stier
February 13, 2023

West High Weekly 1.20.23

Alaina Greenlee, Zoe Smith, and Camille Gretter
January 20, 2023
Grace Hinrichs '21 would love to continue her theater involvement after high school. “I am definitely thinking about majoring in college and not necessarily Performing Arts, but in directing and casting and producing, because I want to continue theater as my career in any way that I can, even if it’s not being an artist myself," she said.

Performing with grace

Abby McKeone, Graphics and Social Media Editor
November 29, 2019
Kaylee Gibson 23' models a monster mask to insure a correct fit before an after school props meeting.

Behind the scenes of Theatre West’s She Kills Monsters

Sydney Wildes, Yearbook Clubs and Academics Editor
November 13, 2019
The new logo for the new FilmScene location in Iowa City.

The stunning new FilmScene theater opens

Jack Harris, Online Copy Editor and Arts Editor
September 23, 2019
Before COVID-19 shutdowns, Theatre West staged shows like "West Side Story" and "Sweeney Todd" with live audiences.

Dancing into the spotlight

Carmela Cohen Suarez, Entertainment Editor
April 21, 2018
The cast practices during a rehearsal on April 5.

“West Side Story”: behind the scenes of Theatre West’s spring musical

Lucy Polyak and Anna Brown
April 5, 2018
Characters huddle together to analyze sketch of the crime scene. From left to right: Cade Koch '18, Brandon Burkhardt '18, Meg Moreland '18, Sam Sunderland '19, Damarius Levi '18, Pieper Stence '18, Sean Harken '21. Paige Harken '18, Ethan Seylar '19 and Leah Brownsburger '18

“12 Angry Jurors”: Behind the Scenes

Emma Brustkern, Print Entertainment Editor
January 3, 2018

An in depth look at 12 Angry Jurors

Grace Christopher, Broadcast Managing Editor
December 1, 2017
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