Whether you are interested in acting, playing basketball, or discovering the journalism world, this summer, Westford Academy organizations are offering a variety of programs of your interest. Summer School of the Performing Arts: This summer, Westford Academy Theater Arts is holding their annual...

People around the world have been held out of movie theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic, putting a night out at the movies on hold for a year.  Just recently however, we can release the pause button, as a new opportunity for viewers to enjoy a movie at the theater has arisen.  Your craving for a...

After theaters closed in late March, people all across the world turned to online-streaming platforms to entertain themselves through the pandemic. Aside from providing viewers with classic films and televisions shows, platforms, like Netflix, have been releasing new films to excite the public. Among...

With theaters being a risk for safety, people have turned to streaming services like Netflix for movies and TV. Luckily, Disney swooped in and delivered a crowd-pleasing play. Hamilton is the hit broadway sensation that took the world by storm when it first debuted in 2015. Disney filmed the stage...

Evolution. Conversations. Roller-coaster. Words the cast and crew of Love/Sick use to describe the show as they gather in the Black Box after a long rehearsal. The long-awaited night before the opening night, the directors advise the cast as they put the finishing touches on each simple, yet intricate...

Westford Improv Troupe (WIT) is a group of Westford Academy students that does improv shows; their next show will be this Friday and will be Christmas-themed with the name WITmas. The show is on Friday, December 20th at 2:30 PM in the Black Box Theater, and it will be two dollars at the door for...

O’neil Cinemas recently opened at the Point in Littleton. The building contains both a restaurant and a theater. The theater section of the building contains eight movie theaters and a concession stand. The concessions there are the typical concessions sold, candy, popcorn, and drinks. The popcorn...

This season for its fall musical, Westford Academy Theater Arts will present Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Directed by Larry Sousa, the play is based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson and the Disney classic film. The story follows Ariel, a mermaid princess who has a deep curiosity of the human...

The fall musical, The Little Mermaid directed by Larry Sousa, runs from Friday, November 10 to Tuesday, November 21, and stars Thomas Sanders as Prince Eric and Emily Sawosik as Ariel. Sanders has been acting in theater since fifth grade. He first began acting at SSPA, and the past few summers he...

With WATA's latest play The Gingerbread Lady fresh out of the oven, the Ghostwriter went behind the scenes to see how the stage was set. The story revolves around Evelyn "Evy" Meara (played by Sami Killian), a recovering alcoholic trying to get her life back together with her two friends Jimmy...

  On Saturday, March 18th, Westford Academy Theater Arts presented Caryl Churchill's play Fen at the Massachusetts Education Theater Guild state semi-final, but their performance went just past the time limit and was disqualified from the competition. The entire performance was required...

Westford Academy Theater Arts’s newest production, The Gingerbread Lady, opens on March 22, at 3:00 PM. Although it is a Black Box show, it takes place on the mainstage in the WA performing arts center. The Gingerbread Lady will perform 6 times, on three different dates, March 22, 23, and 24th. Show...