It’s 3:00 AM, and the high school’s production of “Nice Guys” has just turned off the lights in the auditorium following its final dress rehearsal. As theater kids begin the process of shedding their costumes and makeup, they welcome the likely future of intense homework and little sleep.

 “I had a few hours of homework when I was done, just three or four so it wasn’t that bad,” said Cosette Emerson ’26, one of the student leaders of the high school’s drama department.

On Sunday, February 22, President Donald Trump called the USA Olympic men’s ice hockey team to congratulate them on their gold medal win against Canada and to invite them to celebrate at the White House. He then made a sexist quip about having to invite the women’s hockey team, who also won gold, to which the men’s team laughed.

The high school hosted the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild , a regional interscholastic theater competition, on February 28, marking the school’s first time hosting the event since 2019 and showing that the high school’s theater program has grown in recent years.