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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Local Actor Teaches How to Stand Up to Bullying, Unhealthy Relationships from Stage
Shonna McEachern plays a bullied middle schooler in one production.
Watching someone being bullied can be hard. Imagine setting yourself up for the same treatment. Again and again and again. In front of an audience. Even when it’s scripted. Woburn actor Shonna McEachern has appeared on stage for the past year in a production for middle schoolers, she said, called “Girl Chat.” “I’m the one who gets bullied," she said. She also appears in “Remote Control,” for eighth graders, she said, both under the auspices of Deana’s Education Theater, which also performs “The Yellow Dress,” about dating violence. McEachern has been performing since “I did fake plays in my room” as a child, she told Woburn Patch. She attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan. About a year ago, she heard about “The …
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Woburn Youths Perform at Stoneham Theatre
Special youth shows performed between Feb. 1 and 12.
[Editor's note: The information below is from a Stoneham Theatre press statement.] The Stoneham Theatre is slated to have 12 days of youth theatre featuring actors in grades 1 through 12 from across Massachusetts, according to a Theatre press statement. Stoneham Theatre’s young company presents "Twists on Old Tales!", "Winter Festival with Once Upon A Mattress," Disney’s "Beauty and The Beast," and "Into the Woods." The Festival runs from Feb. 1-12. Tickets per performance are the price of regular admission at $10 in advance, $15 after Feb. 1. Kids and students always pay $10. For advance tickets and information, visit or call the Box Office at 781-279-2200 (Hours: Tues.–Sat., 1–6 p.m.) or log onto the Theatre's website. "Once Upon a …
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Kennedy Middle School Students Continue Holiday Concert Traditions [VIDEO]
Including a visit from St. Nick.
Several traditions make the candlelight holiday concert at the Kennedy Middle School unique. Some chorus members carry lit candles—no, not flame-lit—down the aisles of the Kennedy auditorium and up onto the stage. “Ho, Ho, Ho” himself pays a visit to the auditorium. And students sing with gusto a song with special meaning to the school’s chorus director, Beatriz Bloodsworth: Feliz Navidad. All those traditions continued this year. The Kennedy Concert Band and Chorus performed Tuesday night. Band members performed ensemble and solo pieces. Chorus members sang together and in solos and duets, and a group danced to “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Students on hand bells and guitar accompanied the chorus on different pieces and one student …
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Sounds of The Season Featured at Burdett Mansion
Living History Guild Singers perform against backdrop of holiday decorations.
Listeners filled the parlor and dining room of a historic Woburn home, decorated for the holidays. The performance began. The “musical journey through the centuries” included the “Cherry Tree Carol” and “Holly Tree Carol” and “Boar’s Head Carol”—and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” The Living History Guild Singers—vocalists Clare Hurley, Donna Nagle, Maureen Vallis and Darlene Wigton and, on upright base, Wolfram Neff—performed. Then they led a sing-along. After the performance, some guests toured the Victorian-style Burdett Mansion, built in 1880, the home of the Woburn Historical Society. Two members of the guild singers are also members of the historical society, Hurley told the audience: she and Wigton. Since the summer, the …
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Donna Nagle
3:39 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Thanks so much for this lovely article. We had great fun performing and hope to do more events in the near future. Singing together is a great way to build a strong community! more ›
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
POLL: What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Let us know what's your favorite.
The turkey is in the fridge and Black Friday has come and gone. You kow what that means -- Christmastime is upon us. Over the next few weeks, Patch will be running fun Christmas-related polls and questions. This week, we want to know what’s your favorite Christmas song. Choose from our selections or if your favorite isn’t on the list, choose “Other” and let us know what’s your selection.
Raquelle Matos
5:27 pm on Saturday, December 3, 2011
I have so many! I really love how Rockapella sings Silver Bells. It's all acapella and one of the singers does the bell sound with his throat. Amazing! more ›
‘Alternative Holiday Fair’ Features Items From Near, Far
Fair will be held Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at the United Methodist Church.
Like an eager child on Christmas morning, Rev. Sharon Jones sliced through the tape that sealed a large brown box yesterday and began to unwrap the items inside. Two palm accent baskets from Bangladesh. Onyx candle holders from Pakistan. A Tree of Life trivet from the West Bank. Several kinds of chocolate. Rev. Jones, pastor of the United Methodist Church, and a group of congregants are planning a holiday fair at the church this coming Sunday with a twist. It’s a fair trade fair with items from around the world. They’ll also sell gift certificates to about a dozen local businesses. “Shop local. Think global,” is the thinking, according to Eileen Dougherty, who runs the International Learning Center of the North Suburban YMCA at the …
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Woburnites Open Their Decorated Doors for the Holidays
Holiday House tour is this coming Sunday, Dec. 4; tickets available at 3 locations.
Four elves between the ages of 4 and 9 spent time Friday decorating a circa-1888 home for the holidays. With help from Papa and Mama elf, they carried decorations down to the elegant first floor from the third floor attic. They hung ornaments—many hand-made—on one of the Christmas trees after Papa Elf wound the tree with red and green ribbon and crowned the tree with a bow. The boy elves even donated their hockey sticks for a holiday display on the wide front porch. Come Sunday, you’ll have a chance to see their work for yourself. The home of the Doherty family—Charles, Kathleen and Maura, 9, Joseph, 8, Jack, 6, and Thomas, 4—is one of seven that will be open to the public during the annual Holiday House tour this coming Sunday, Dec. 4, to…
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Santa and More at Saturday's Festival on the Common
Annual festival includes an art exhibit inside First Congregational Church.
Yes, Virginia, tomorrow is Thanksgiving and Santa Claus will visit Woburn two days after that. Santa will stop downtown, across from the Common, this coming Saturday afternoon-into-evening, during the 17th annual Festival on the Common. The festival is held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving because many people come back to the city for that holiday, according to Gary Fuller, festival chairman. Elves from the Department of Public Works have already decorated the Common in advance of Santa’s visit. They’ve put up a new figure this year, Fuller said. Have you seen the polar bear? The festival tradition will continue, he said, with activities from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday. Alford George will carve designs in ice starting at 3 p.m. There will be …
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Patch People
What They Did on Their Summer Vacation
WMHS seniors Mikaela Holt and Laura Standley use art to de-stress; painted patriotic murals on Senior Center wall.
They started with a gray “canvas,” roughly 20 feet long, from left to right, and 16 feet high, and transformed the cinderblock wall into a vibrant, fluttering, red, white and blue American flag. Next to the flag, on a smaller section of the wall, Mikaela Holt and Laura Standley painted the insignias of the five branches of the US Armed Services: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. So where are these murals? On a wall at the Senior Center, outside the office of city Director of Veterans Services Larry Guiseppi. Around Memorial Day, Guiseppi went to WMHS to talk with Principal Joseph Finigan about Memorial Day activities at the school. Guiseppi mentioned, he said Wednesday, that he had a blank wall outside his office and …
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Elanie Holt
1:43 pm on Friday, September 30, 2011
Good Job Laura and Mikaela - so proud of you both! more ›
Earnhardt
4:34 pm on Saturday, April 21, 2012
Go see the THREE STOOGES! it's a scream! woo woo woo woo! more ›