Avondale Theatre Company’s ‘TARZAN’ is Equal Parts Engineering and Acting

The Avondale Theatre Company (ATC), Avondale High School’s award-winning drama troupe pulls out all the stops to deliver the fun when students hit the stage this week and next week to bring the classic Disney musical TARZAN to life. Students began design of the set that includes a working waterfall, zip lines and trampolines over the summer and started building it once the cast and crew were assembled shortly after the start of the school year. Avondale senior and ATC Stage Manager, Robin … [Read more...]

Avondale Theatre Company Announces 2015-2016 Season Celebrating “Two Worlds, One Family”

The Avondale Theatre Company (ATC), Avondale High School’s award-winning drama troupe, announces the main stage productions for the 2015-2016 theatre season revolving around the theme “Two Worlds, One Family,” which focuses on plays and musicals that show how opposites can attract, or struggle, to live side-by-side. “We wanted to follow up this year with a season that shook up the expectations and routine,” explains Mr. Edmond Guay, Avondale theatre teacher and director who will be starting … [Read more...]

Avondale Theatre Company Earns Honor to Represent Michigan in Scotland

The Avondale Theatre Company (ATC) announced recently that they are the only Michigan school chosen by The American High School Theatre Festival (AHSTF) to participate at the 2016 Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Fringe is the largest international arts festival on the planet, and runs annually through the month of August. Avondale will build a show and perform it stateside before breaking it down and taking it ‘across the pond’ for a two-week run next summer. “Being selected by … [Read more...]