“I took the cast, and I put them in a circle and I said, ‘Get ready. I think your lives are going to change, ’ ” Ortega tells ...

Lawrence North High School's theater program is putting on "Hadestown: Teen Edition", a modified version of the hit Broadway musical.

Right now, the focus is on "High School Musical," a story about breaking stereotypes and embracing individuality. Monday, the cast sang a group number as the tech crew wielded drills and ...

“But we were filming High School Musical 1, and we were filming the finale, ‘We're All in This Together.’ And we had all these cameras going, and the cast and the dancers, and I looked into ...