Do any MCPS middle schools have theaters?

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Parkland MS has a stage at the end of the gym.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually I would have asked if any do not. We’ve been to a variety of area MS’ because of various events and they all had theaters.

Can you list them?

NP. SSIMS doesn't have one, not even a stage at the end of a gym or cafeteria. They sometimes use the all-purpose room stage in the adjoining elementary school for school plays, but this is a source of friction, and they seem to have given up attempting that. The only option is fitting events into the band room, or scheduling a HS auditorium.

SSIMS will be getting a real stage, in the new gym due to be constructed within the school building in a few years.

[Anonymous]

White Oak MS has a stage in the gym.

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Anonymous wrote:Loiderman is getting an actual dedicated performance space but every other middle school uses the cafetorium for that.

Nice! I was just about to say that all the middle schools I know have a stage in an "apr" -- shared space with cafeteria or gym. I wouldn't call any of those a "theatre." Always so hard to see anything with these configurations, but at least you can get kids on stage and people in the house. Bravo, Loiderman, though.

Yes, and it looks really nice!

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/construction/project/loidermanms.aspx

+1 this

Apply to Loiederman if your child is very interested in theater/having an actual performance space is important to you/your child. The addition is supposed to be completed by winter 2021

[Anonymous]

Sligo has a stage in the gym and Eastern has a stage in the cafeteria. For big band/orchestra concerts, they hold them at Northwood and Blair, respectively.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never seen any theater space at North Bethesda Middle School, but perhaps they have one. I know the year-end productions are at Walter Johnson high school.

They use the stage at the end of the gym for the spring musical, while choir and instrumental music concerts are at WJ.

Same with pyle and Whitman’s arrangement.