Hartford High School among nominations for WAVE Awards honoring high school musical theater
- Tri-City Record
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The Lake Michigan College Visual & Performing Arts Department has announced the nominees for its 2025-2026 WAVE Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theatre. Loosely designed after Broadway’s famed Tony Awards, the WAVE Awards recognizes, encourages, and promotes high school theater. Ten adjudicators evaluated 13 high schools and about 890 students who participated in high school musical productions in the 2025-2026 academic year.
Individuals and productions from participating schools were nominated in 14 acting and technical categories. Winners will be announced during an award ceremony at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 20, at the Lake Michigan College Mendel Center Jenkins Theatre on the Benton Harbor Campus, 2755 E. Napier Ave.
Now in its fifth year at LMC, the WAVE Awards includes students and arts educators from Berrien, Van Buren, and Cass counties in Michigan and St. Joseph and Elkhart counties in Indiana. The awards ceremony begins with red carpet arrivals at 6 p.m., followed by the awards, which include musical production numbers from Concord, Edwardsburg, James Whitcomb Riley, Lakeshore, Paw Paw, Penn, and South Haven high schools, as well as an opening number comprised of students from participating schools and LMC.
