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Working
Newark Community High School’s spring Musical Working, celebrates the jobs we all do. The stories and songs in this musical are the actual words of everyday people in everyday jobs. In Working, NCHS Drama Club actors bring these characters to life and convey the truth in their stories.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Newark Community High School’s fall play A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most popular works, is a comedy about four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, who are manipulated by fairies who inhabit the forest in which the play is set.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Newark High School's spring musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is the story of a group of junior high kids who are competing for the coveted first place prize. This play is unique for Newark in that it utilizes volunteers from the audience as contestants. With mischief around every corner, you’re sure to have a good time. View the complete article here.

   


   
Our Town

Our Town
Newark Community High School’s fall play Our Town, one of the most famous American plays by Thorton Wilder, follows the lives of people in small rural town called Grovers Corners located in New Hampshire. Through minimal use of sets and props, the audience learns just how beautiful life is and how much they may take it for granted. View the complete article here.

   


   
Into the Woods

Into the Woods
Newark Community High School’s spring musical explores the world of fairytales in its production of Into the Woods. This zany 90-minute comedy takes a crew of familiar characters into the woods to make their wishes come true. Into the Woods was performed in the spring of the 2009-2010 school year. View the complete article here.

   


   
The Crucible

The Crucible
Newark High School Drama Club presents The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. This production tells a story of the Salem witch trials in 1692. The Crucible was performed in the fall of the 2009-2010 school year.
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Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Newark High School Drama Club presents You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Through the cast of characters, the audience experienced the innocence of childhood as depicted by Charles Schultz. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was performed in the spring of the 2008-2009 school year. View the complete article here.

   


   
Butterfly

I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Newark High School Drama Club presents I Never Saw Another Butterfly. This story stars a Jewish girl named Raja who was one of over 15,000 Jewish children who passed through Terezin, from 1942 to 1945. The title character teaches the children and gives hope in the concentration camp until liberation of the camp at the end of the war. I Never Saw Another Butterfly was performed in the fall of the 2008-2009 school year. View the complete article here.

   


   
HS Musical

High School Musical
Newark High School Drama Club presents High School Musical. The students from “East High” have been through everything from basketball practice to detention to the big championship game! All ends leaving the wonderful Wildcats championship winners and decathlon dictators. High School Musical was a performed in the spring of the 2007-2008 school year. View the complete article here.

   


   
Just Another Just Another High School Play
Newark High School Drama Club presents Just Another High School Play. A group of actors, who have apparently been abandoned by their drama teacher, have to fend for themselves opening night in front of a live audience. Just Another High School Play, a hilarious interactive improvisational comedy, was a performed in the fall of the 2007-2008 school year. View the complete article here.
   


   
Phantom
The Phantom of the Soap Opera
Newark High School Drama Club presents The Phantom of the Soap Opera. A high-class investigation goes on while the actors of the soap opera tape their episodes. As Police Chief Digby Wright tries to solve the case to find Regina and her kidnapper, the audience gets to enjoy some songs along the way. The Phantom of the Soap Opera was a spring musical production for the 2006-2007 school year. View the complete article here.
   


   
Robin Hood
The Legend of Robin Hood...Sort Of
Newark High School Drama Club presentsThe Legend of Robin Hood...Sort Of by Pat Cook. This hilarious send up of the Robin Hood story leaves no stone unturned or at least, tripped over. The Legend of Robin Hood Sort Of was performed in the fall of the 2006-2007 school year. View the complete article here.
   


   
Snow White
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Newark High School Drama Club presented a musical rendition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the book by Tim Kelly. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was performed in the spring of the 2005-2006 school year. View the complete article here.
 


 
Wizard of OZ
The Wizard of Oz in the Wild West
The immortal characters from The Wizard of Oz live again in this delightful fantasy. A spell cast by the wicked witch sends Dorothy into the Western frontier of the 1880s. The Wizard of OZ was a fall play production for the 2005-2006 school year. View the complete article here.

Newark Community High School District No. 18

Pauline Berggren, Superintendent
Doug Hoster, Principal

413 Chicago Rd.
Newark, IL 60541

815.695.5164 (Voice)
815.695.5752 (Fax)