Graphic by Carolyn Chen ’25/The Choate News Choate students are presented with many public speaking opportunities throughout their high school careers: the Krause-Stevens Declamation Contest, the Goodyear Presentations in World History, and the Pratt-Packard Declamation Contest. As each speech is presented, five criteria  circle the judges’ minds: stance, projection, articulation,Read More

Colony Hall was honored on April 7 with a performance of the ballet Romeo and Juliet: The Choice, where the audience voted to replace Shakespeare’s classic tragedy with a happy ending by a margin of 20.  Composed on the piano in 1935 by Sergei Prokofiev, the ballet reflects his visionRead More

During the evening hours in the Paul Mellon Arts Center (PMAC) and Colony Hall, building monitors Ms. Sarvenaz Keshavarz and Dr. Bill Powers P’14 walk the halls brimming with creativity, acting as guardian angels to Choate artists. Patrolling the long corridors on weeknights and weekends, they help out students whoRead More

Photo by Toffy Prakittiphoom ’24/The Choate News I.M. Pei’s Paul Mellon Arts Center (PMAC) stands proudly on the Choate campus as the budding home to inspiration and creativity. In this year’s annual Spring Dance Concert, the PMAC itself became a source of inspiration. Reflecting a remarkable variety in student andRead More

Photo by Toffy Prakittiphoom/The Choate News A white room, a seemingly delusional character with uneasy laughs, a set of flashing lights, and a group of ushers reciting an enchanting speech opened the Choate production of Everybody, written by Branden Jacobs Jenkins, last Thursday, February 17, through Saturday, February 19 onRead More

Photo by Rajeev Roy/The Choate News If you happen to step into Colony Hall in the afternoons, you may hear the harmonious melodies of a piano in simultaneous rhythm with the patter of moving feet. After a year and a half, live music has returned to Ms. Pamela Newell’s balletRead More

The Capstone Program, one of Choate’s seven signature programs, provides seniors with the opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty member to design a customized curriculum drawing on multiple classes and to create a final project of their choice. The topic of a student’s Capstone is based on their ownRead More

Photo courtesy of Choate Flickr Ms. Kalya Yannatos, who has directed Choate’s Arts Department for a decade, will be starting a new chapter of her career as a Development Officer at The Putney School in Vermont. Ms. Yannatos came to Choate in 2011 after having worked at Putney as theRead More