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Free Press Online

The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

Free Press Online

The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

Free Press Online

Senior Julie Ruddy flips her hair enthusiastically while acting in a scene. Ruddy performed as Evil Tina in the 2021-2022 school year spring production of She Kills Monsters. Being a villain takes more effort because you have to empathize with them as a character and truly believe you are justified in being an awful person, Ruddy said.

FEATURE: Student Actors Manage Careers

Becky Coston December 12, 2022

Jasmine Clock   Movie stars walking around a high school in Kansas seems like something out of a dream, but it isn’t so far from the truth. With a passion for acting, some students are on the path...

Senior Chris Hatfield plays an alcoholic father in the student written play Seamless.

Thespians continue excellence in annual Black Box Theater Festival

ryan liston, online editor-in-chief May 5, 2014

Sitting in the front row of the Black Box on Saturday, April 26, I had an unobstructed view of the students performing in the Black Box Theater Festival. The Black Box Theater Festival is an event that...

Jack Garvin: Acting Out in Class and On Stage

ryan loecker December 10, 2010

“If I were to describe myself in one word, I would probably say that I’m lively,” junior Jack Garvin said. Garvin spent the first half of the day with one of his good friends junior Tim Rosenbloom....

School Musical

allison harwood November 4, 2009

Sing. Dance. Act. Repeat.   When someone takes part in a musical, they have to go above and beyond the call of a regular actor. Actors in musicals must sing, dance and act, and do it well.    "I'm...

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