PPAS is Hosting Three Open Houses!
Two Evenings For Prospective High School Students
Wednesday, October 23 & Thursday, October 24
5 pm-8 pm
And one night for prospective Middle School students on
Wednesday, October 30.
If you know of any parents who are interested in their child attending PPAS, please share this sign up sheet with them.
And if you can help us greet prospective parents, please sign up here.
PPAS Middle School Spring Concert
June 11, 7 pm
PPAS Auditorium
$20 suggested donation
Please RSVP here and let us know you plan to attend
The 7th Grade Musical Revue is a collaborative rehearsal project geared towards the 7th grade class that culminates in a revue-style performance. At the start of the rehearsal process, students collaborated with the director to identify themes and topics that they are passionate about. The content for the show has been devised around the students’ interests and the stories they are excited about telling. Students have be assigned solos, duets and small group numbers based on skill and ability. They have focused on acting-through-song and learned some staging and theatrical movement.
[Dis]Connected: The TA7 Musical Revue
March 14-15 at 7 pm
PPAS Blackbox
Directed and Music Directed by Marissa Davis
Stage Managed by Akua Duodu
Featuring The Waterwell Drama Program – Grade 7
Middle School Parents!
The Middle School Valentine’s Day dance
is on Wednesday, February 14, at PPAS from 3:30 pm-6 pm.
If your child is not enrolled in Manhattan Youth after-school program and wishes to attend, you must submit a permission slip for your child.
Middle School Drama
“Be More Chill”
December 14-16 at 7 pm
December 15 at 4 pm & 7 pm
Share YOUR superpowers by participating in any or all of the upcoming opportunities at PPAS!
1. PPAS C30 Community Feedback
Submissions due by December 10th
The C30 process is the formal process by which school leaders are selected. The superintendent wants your input in determining the next leader of PPAS. Please take a few minutes to complete the below survey. You may list the qualities that you believe are essential for the next principal to hold, and share a question that you would like to ask the candidates that are being considered in the hiring process. Thank you in advance for your thoughtful contributions to the process.
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2. PPAS HIGH SCHOOL CALLBACKS
December 9th and 16th
A new class of students is preparing for their PPAS CALLBACKS. Join us as we help new families navigate the callback process.
Thank you in advance for helping families feel comfortable at PPAS.
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3. PPAS Middle School Musical
December 14th-16th
Under the guidance of Kyle Pleasant, Marissa Davis and Kaelin Fuld, a group of PPAS Middle School students are ready to blow your minds with “Be More Chill”. Sign up to work box office, sell merchandise and concessions, or help usher people into our auditorium where they will experience PPAS magic!
ALL VOLUNTEERS RECEIVE RESERVED AUDITORIUM SEATING
Thank you in advance for supporting these rising stars!
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4. SUPER STRIKE SUNDAY – December 17th
Calling all Dads, dudes, and darn-strong dames!
Join us as we strike (break down) the Be More Chill set, organize and clean up our scene shop, and then head over to Hurley’s to celebrate our accomplishments! Sign up below (18+ only please)
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5. PPAS Middle School Winter Concert
December 19th
Kick off your holidays with the Waterwell Drama program Grades 6-8 Holiday Concert, under the direction of Marissa Davis and featuring our Alvin Ailey Dancers. Thank you for supporting our Middle School Rising Stars.
ALL VOLUNTEERS RECEIVE RESERVED AUDITORIUM SEATING
Teamwork makes this DREAM work!
Thank you!
And a Child Shall Lead
This is the heroic and true story of children coming of age in Terezin, the “Jewish city” established by the Nazis near Prague as a way station before the death camps. In the face of unspeakable horror, these children use their determination and creativity to build lives filled with hope and beauty — playing, studying, making art, and writing an underground newspaper — all at the peril of being executed. Their actual poems and stories are woven into a fast-paced drama, evoking the universality of children caught in the insanity of war.
Directed by Nico Torrez
Stage Managed by Kaelin Fuld
Featuring the WW Theater Arts Classes of ’23 & ’24, with Guest performances by the WDP Class of ’26
June 16th @7pm,
June 17th @3pm & @7pm
PPAS Auditorium
A Light in the Dark
An evening of original short plays written by the Waterwell Theater Arts students
Directed by KiDané Kelati
Stage Managed by Lyss Wortman
Featuring the Theater Arts Class of ’25
June 13th and 14th @7pm in the PPAS Black Box
The Middle School Spring Concert
June 6 at 7 pm in the PPAS Auditorium
Featuring the TA6, TA7, and TA8 classes, a performance of selections from their voice and dance classes this year.
