Kansas high school theatre students learned a variety of skills and techniques at Sterling College’s Theatre Workshop Day on March 7. Approximately 350 high school students from 16 different schools participated in the event that included multiple workshops and a matinee performance of the musical “Chess.”

Attendees were given the opportunity to learn about acting, audition monologues, dance for the stage, forensics, taking head shots, improvisation, musical theatre singing, scenic painting, stage combat and sword fighting, stage lighting, stage makeup and costuming.