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...

The Westford Improv Troupe (WIT) is back in action yet again for a Valentine's themed treat. The self proclaimed "group of goof ball disciples" have returned to the WA black box stage for another after school show of improvised puns, jokes and games. WITentine's, as it is called, is promised to...

Freshman Emma Monville sits on the floor of the makeup rooms backstage during the Servant of Two Master's last run.  Manville, who painted Trufalldino's face, had to completely re-do his entire face after he was attacked with whipped cream during the last scene of Act I. Monville, unlike other freshmen,...

Next week, there will be another WATA play produced, The Servant of Two Masters. This play's makeup director is Kenna Rooney. According to Rooney, the play is about people getting married and uniting, and that there are a bunch of clowns. She also says that none of the clowns look creepy or stalkerish,...

On Thursday, October 27th at 3pm, another Black Box theater production, Ride, will hit the stage. The production by Eric Lane will be directed by WA senior Emily Trantanella. According to Trantanella, the play follows the journey of three teenagers on a road trip, and the deeper issues of their...

With yet another class of freshmen entering WA, the Ghostwriter has decided to put together a list of must sees for freshmen for the beginning of the school year. As a freshman, you may feel as though you should not care about school events when you are just a "frosh", we believe from experience that...

Class actress, lead in Young Frankenstein, and singer of the national anthem at the spirit rally, Claire Shea has become a star at Westford Academy.  Her voice has been heard reverberating in the auditorium on numerous occasions, and her passion for music and performing has never faltered.  Despite...