James Caldwell High Theater Program Wins Paper Mill Playhouse Award

The James Caldwell High School theater arts program has won the Educational Impact Award from Paper Mill Playhouse at the 18th Annual Rising Star Awards on Tuesday at the Millburn Theater.

The high school was given an engraved crystal award from Tiffany & Co. as an award and $500 for its spring production of “Kiss Me Kate”. 

Selected by the Paper Mill Playhouse Education Department, the Educational Impact Award goes to a school that demonstrates specific connections to the New Jersey State Core Curriculum Content Standards. Curriculum connections must be tangible with a well-documented outcome.

The awards, modeled after the Tony Awards, were created by the Paper Mill Playhouse in 1996 to give schools the opportunity to showcase their musical arts programs on a state level. The musicals are adjudicated by Paper Mill Playhouse throughout the spring by a group of 70 Evaluators, with each school receiving four independent evaluations.