When a TV character wants to “find themselves,” they usually do it by breaking rules — partying, rebelling against their parents, or rejecting expectations set for them. The new Netflix animated...
After You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2023), Singin’ in the Rain (2024) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2025), Shalhevet’s musical theater streak continues with The Addams Family...
Painted doves fly out of vibrant flames of red and purple in a new mural commemorating Oct. 7 on the second floor landing of Shalhevet.
Internationally-famous Israeli artist Solomon Souza came to Shalhevet...
By Sophie Katz, Outside News Editor
• June 1, 2024
After 21 years of leading the Boiling Point, directing the Choirhawks, and teaching classes, Mrs. Joelle Keene is leaving Shalhevet to continue and expand her work at the Jewish Scholastic Press Association,...
By Sonya Katzin, Arts and Culture Editor
• May 15, 2024
As the lights dimmed and the audience quieted, a hunched and elderly man emerged from the corner of the room, accompanied by a nurse. Slowly, they made their way to the center of the stage, where the man...
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor
• February 20, 2024
Flashing lights. Multicolored balloons. Cheerleaders dancing along to a catchy song. A fluffy blue mascot. A stiffly starched man reveling in it all. And what is the crowd cheering?
“Oxy-Con-tin!”
This...
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor
• February 1, 2024
Ms. Emily Chase, who founded and developed the Shalhevet drama department while encouraging students to write and direct their own plays, has left for Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica...
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor
• August 24, 2023
Ms. Emily Chase, who founded and developed the drama department while encouraging students to write and direct their own plays, announced this morning that she will be leaving for Crossroads School for...
An in-class play about piano, death and teenage emotions took center stage at a theater in San Diego earlier this year when senior Tehilla Fishman’s class playwriting assignment was produced there after...
Walking into the Shalhevet theater, I was impressed to see a beautiful cartoonish set painted in vibrant primary colors. As the classic Charlie Brown piano music played, Shalhevet’s six-person cast erupted...
In a dimly lit auditorium scattered with people, the Shalhevet Choirhawks used music to paint a picture of Israel in the months just before it was formally established.
The performance – their first...
By Olivia Fishman, Arts and Culture Editor
• November 19, 2022
When students walked into Shalhevet last August, they didn’t expect to be greeted with vibrant, oversized but lifelike, graffiti-sprayed street art.
But during the last two weeks of summer break,...