Soli Deo Gloria

The mission of the NCHS Theatre Department is to give our students an opportunity to discover, develop, and use their gifts to glorify God alone: for in Him we live and move and have our being. -Acts 17:28

When the NCHS Theatre Department began in 2004, the cast was comprised of eight female students who had signed up for the Theatre Elective. However, the play (Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest) required four male actors. This turned out to be a challenge that the actresses handled famously.

Not to be outdone, the actors for 2005's production, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, performed a vignette from the play at the Alcott home in Concord, Massachusetts by special request. The students were honored and excited to perform in the museum.

Auditions have been open to all students in the high school since 2006 when the annual spring play was William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. A talented high school cast of 4 girls and 15 boys presented what theatergoers described as our best production so far!

2007 saw a talented cast of 24 engaging in swordplay and significant makeup as they took on the roles of Cyrano and company in Cyrano de Bergerac.

Two insane aunts looking to "help ease the suffering" of lonely old men in their boarding house in Brooklyn, NY was the backdrop for the 2008 rendition of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic And Old Lace. The actresses who played the “murderous aunties” suggested that  the set walls be painted yellow because according to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” yellow is the color of insanity.

With the downturn in the economy, the NCA Theatre Deptartment slashed its budget in 2009 and leaned on the strength of its actors by performing Whose Night At The Improve Asylum Is It Anyway? One of the funniest performances on record!