Dear TA Families, The 9th grade is hosting a dance tonight for the whole school. Food, music, and fun for everyone! See the attached flyer for details. Congratulations to all of the musicians and singers who performed at the winter concert last night - and congrats to their teachers as well, Jeff...
Tonight (December 8) at 6:30 p.m., Thetford Academy's talented student musicians will take the stage to present TA's annual winter concert. The concert will feature performances by instrumental music classes, choral music class, and the Stage Band ensemble. TA's instrumental students, led by instrumental music teacher Whit Van Meter, will...
Thetford Academy is making the most of this last weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday. The TA Drama Department, under the leadership of new performing arts faculty Jeff Seabaugh, will perform the Tony Award-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher on both Friday and Saturday evenings starting at 7:00 p.m. A swashbuckling,...
The Thetford Academy Drama Department is proud to present the Tony Award winning play, Peter and the Starcatcher. This swashbuckling, family-friendly play tells the story of how an unhappy orphan becomes Peter Pan and a flamboyant pirate becomes Captain Hook. Peter and the Starcatcher is a highly theatrical adaptation of Dave...
Dear TA Families, The school year is reaching a late spring crescendo with performances, projects, and special events taking center stage. Arts Focus Recent days have been especially filled with a spotlight on the arts at TA. Congratulations to the cast and crew of the spring musical who delighted their audiences last weekend...
The Musical Theater Production class at TA will present the musical Hello, Dolly! on Friday and Saturday, May 20-21 at 7:00 pm at the MJR Theater, Thetford Academy. The Broadway classic, based on the story “The Matchmaker” by Thornton Wilder, follows the life of Dolly Levi, who says of herself, “Some...
Congratulations to TA Drama students! At Saturday’s Vermont Regional Drama Festival at Williamstown High School, their production of “The Insanity of Mary Girard” was recognized for Excellence in Storytelling Through Cohesive Expression of Tragedy. The festival was a welcome return to live performances after a two-year Covid hiatus. Individual awards for Excellence in Acting were given to Annie Hesser,...
Dear TA Families, It has been a high-energy week with a host of events involving community audiences. How wonderful to be able to invite others in again to witness our learning, to enjoy our performances, and to celebrate achievements with us. Kudos to the following groups and individuals for their public demonstrations of...
After a two-year interruption, TA students are returning to the Vermont One Act Play Festival! The Drama Club's two live performances of "The Insanity of Mary Girard," by Lanie Robertson are THIS FRIDAY, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. and again on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:00 p.m. Both performances are...
Each year, Thetford Academy's Timber Framing course takes on a new design build challenge. Since the course launched in 2014, the class has designed and constructed four timber-framed dugouts for TA's baseball and softball fields, a picnic pavilion on the upper soccer field, and in a ambitious two-year project -...