Articles written by Conor Reilly

CONOR REILLY, The Monitor|Feb 5, 2025

By the end of the first day of the 2025 Montana State Thespian Festival in Missoula, the 12 bright, young actors from Whitehall High School were wholly exhausted. A few fell asleep during a capstone performance of "Into the Woods" by the University of Montana theater department, as did several dozen of their fellow student actors. It had been a good, full day. That morning, the Whitehall kids had staged a one-act play, "I Don't Want to Talk About It," before several hundred drama students from...