Hutchison's award-winning fine arts program presents a variety of theater, dance, and musical productions and programs each year.
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Middle School Play – The Secret Garden – May 10-11, 2024
Adapted for the stage by Isabella Russell-Ides.
Based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett
In this inventive stage adaptation of the classic novel, The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox is thirteen, living in India and afflicted by the potent combination of privilege and neglect. Abruptly orphaned by a tragic cholera epidemic, she is sent off to the desolate moors of Yorkshire, England, to live with her reclusive uncle in his forbidding estate full of dark corners, ghostly shadows, and strange night-time noises. Mary is certain there is more to Misselthwaite Manor than meets the eye. Bored and lonely, she embarks on an adventure to find the source of the mysterious cries that echo through the house at night and to uncover the location of a secret garden. With the help of an enchanted robin and a colorful cast of characters, Mary and her friends work secretively to bring the forgotten garden back to life, unlocking a magical place filled with regeneration, renewal… and reconciliation.
Performances are:
Friday, May 10 at 7:00 pm Saturday, May 11 at 2:00 pm
Spring Dance Concert – April 2, 2024
An annual favorite, the Spring Dance Concert features over 50 girls studying dance in our Center for Excellence’s Arts Academy. This is one of the only times during the school year you get to watch early childhood girls performing alongside our upper school girls. Mark your calendar for April 4 at 6:00 pm to view a moving evening of dance inspired by women’s history in works of ballet, modern, and contemporary dance.
Spring Music Concert – April 18, 2024
Join our instrumental ensembles and choirs in the theater for our annual Spring Music Concert on April 18 at 6:00 pm. Girls from kindergarten through twelfth grade share the stage to celebrate the season with a gift of song.
Upper School Play – Museum – March 1-3, 2024
Museum, a play by Tina Howe
It’s the last day of a modern art exhibition at a large museum. The featured artists are a painter and two sculptors. The entire exhibit is strangely painted white. As the characters enter, converse and interact with the art, we understand that THEY are the color in the space. They ARE the artwork.
The 13 Hutchison Theatre Ensemble members are working hard to bring 40+ characters to the stage! We are planning multiple costume quick-changes to maintain the illusion and bring to the stage the hilarious, fast paced chaos created by these lovers of Art.
Performed without intermission, 1 hour 15 minutes. Admission: $5 students, $10 adults
Performances are:
Friday, March 1 at 7:00 pm Saturday, March 2 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, March 3 at 2:00 pm
Grade-Level Theatre Presentations – 2023-2024
Our Lower School Grade Level Theatre Presentations are as unique as our girls are. Each year, the grade levels work with Anne Marie Caskey, our theatre artistic director, to explore components of a story and the power of sharing your voice from the mainstage. Girls often perform original works in poems and plays sharing their ideas and perspectives about the human experience.
A collection of plein-air oil paintings by Sally Hughes Smith ’64 is on display at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens through October 1. Smith credits Hutchison with inspiring her to become an artist.
Kendyl Brown ’23 took a leap of faith in auditioning for her first production at Hutchison in middle school. That first step sparked a love of theatre, and now she is pursuing a career in acting thanks to encouragement and experience from Hutchison’s theatre department.
Kennedy Adeogba ’23, Lacy Williams ’23, and Nyla Johnson ’23 will make a short film with a $500 budget and receive mentoring from a professional filmmaker.
Hutchison girls won 57 Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards this year, with 11 Gold Keys, 15 Silver Keys, and 31 Honorable Mentions. Several students also won special awards for their work.
For her Certificate of Arts senior project, Camille Mattingly ’22 curated a gallery featuring work from 11 artists who are seniors in high school, including herself and seven other Hutchison students. It will be on view at Arrow through February 26.
Zoe Zerwig Ford ’23, Lacy Williams ’23, and Nyla Johnson ’23 will make a short film with a $500 budget and receive mentoring from a professional filmmaker.
The outlook for Amellia Hausmann ’21 is bright and sunny these days. She is one of only eight people in the country to earn the Gold Medal Portfolio Award in Art, the highest honor given by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The prestigious award comes with a $10,000 scholarship. Her work was selected from nearly 2,000 works that received National Medals, and among the 15,000 works that were awarded regionally with Gold Keys.
At Hutchison, a girl can explore her unique place in the world through the wonder of art. We're making sure that tradition continues, even in a pandemic.
Several of our girls were among a select group of students who danced alongside Collage Dance Collective for this year’s RISE program at Germantown Performing Arts Center.
You might think the inspiration to write a musical would come while sitting at a piano noodling some notes or after hearing a particularly inspiring song. Katy Gilmore ’20 said the first time she remembers committing to writing Sidekicks, The Musical with her father, Barry Gilmore, and her sister, Zoe ’22, they were in a parking lot.