She’s been Serena the Sorority Girl in Legally Blonde: the musical, Katherine in Newsies, Martha in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and, most recently, Cinderella in Into the Woods. In addition to her roles onstage, Sterling College senior Keeley Coon has been active in choir, Highland Singers, band, learned the sax for Jazz Band and also been a Resident Assistant in her dorm. She will present her Senior Music Recital next Thursday, April 25, at 6 p.m. at the Sterling United Methodist Church.

For the summer of 2024, Sterling College is offering all general education courses for the low price of $145 per credit hour. The list of classes has been released with classes beginning May 13 and July 1. Visit online.sterling.edu/summer-discount-class-offerings for information.

To paraphrase Oscar Hammerstein – “The halls are alive with the sound of music!” That is certainly the case in the Sterling College Music Department these days as no less than five graduating seniors are busy preparing for their senior music recitals. 

“We believe this is a record for us,” said Arts Director Dennis Dutton. “With five recitals, two concerts, one musical, and five school matinees the last few weeks of the academic year, Wilson and Spencer Halls have certainly been ‘alive’ with the sounds of music and activity,” he said.

The final mainstage show of the Sterling College Theatre season, Stephen Sondheim’s popular musical Into the Woods, comes with extra weight and significance for eight seniors. This is largest group of graduating music and theatre students in the college’s known history. Their final show will be presented on Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 15 in Culbertson Auditorium on the College campus. 

Everyone in the Sterling College Music Theatre production of the Stephen Sondheim classic musical Into the Woods is doing “double duty” – being in the cast and helping in some other capacity with the production. But Sterling sophomore Noah Svaty is pulling “triple duty” as he is set designer, lighting designer, and playing the leading role of the Baker for the show which will be presented this Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, April 14 at 2 p.m. in Culbertson Auditorium on the college campus. 

A music recital usually means a formal setting for classical music perhaps sung in a different language. An upcoming Sterling College music recital will be more like a musical revue which will include music theatre songs, with staging, a sense of character and even a little tap dance.  Rachel Thomson, Hutchinson, will be presenting her Senior Music Theatre Recital on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in Culbertson Auditorium on the College campus. 

"Once upon a time…” So begins the world’s best-loved stories. That phrase also opens the popular musical Into the Woods which will be presented by Sterling College Music Theatre on Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 14 in Culbertson Auditorium on the college campus. 

Ben Ray ’82, current Board of Trustees member and Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Derby, Kan., will be the speaker for the 2024 Sterling College Commencement ceremony.  The ceremony will honor the Class of 2024 and will take place on Saturday, May 11, at 9:45 a.m. in the Gleason Physical Education Center on the Sterling College campus.