A spotlight shines down on the closed red curtain of the auditorium stage. The audience is silent, anticipating the usual director's welcoming statement. However, Director Melissa Carpenter doesn’t enter; rather, a pair of seniors take center stage.  The Argyle Theatre Department will showcase their senior directs on Jan. 16 and 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Each night there will be three plays performed: Always a Bridesmaid directed by Madison Jackson and Vrddhi Raviraj Jathan, Over the River And Through the Woods directed by Jacob Allen and Alix Bourland and The Tin Woman directed...

As the sky evolves from a bright open blue into streaks of hues with pink and orange, Argyle residents and community members surround the silhouette of a towering Christmas tree. As they gathered, joyous conversations and laughs of holiday cheer hushed as their gaze shifted towards a figure standing beneath the tree - Santa Claus. The silence is broken as Santa rings out, counting down from five. As he hollers out "one,” the dark tree silhouette is suddenly lit into a beacon of dazzling lights.  Since 2015, a local environmental and community volunteer organization, Keep Argyle Beautiful...

The week before Thanksgiving Break, 35 students from the Theatre Department attended the Texas Thespian Festival held at the Gaylord in Grapevine. The department finished with nine out of 15 individual performances and IE entrees qualifying for the National Festival, which will be held in Indiana in June 2025. The department also participated in various events and attended several workshops to further elevate their skills. The department also had the largest amount of people in troupe history audition for colleges and universities. Argyle Theatre National qualifiers are: Lily Boyle - Solo...

On Monday, Argyle's UIL Congressional Debate team participated in the Regional competition. Five students made it to finals, Krithika Ganti, Chitrita Logesh, Adhishri Dingokar, Liyah Cha, and Jack Dillon. In addition to a strong presence in finals, students Cha and Dillon will compete at State in Jan. Dillon placed third and Cha placed first with the highest place ranking from all three judges.

“Whenever they announced it, Addie Crawford and I were bawling our eyes out,” senior and drum major Rayne Haesly said. “It showed where we've come from and how far we've come.” At the UIL Area Marching Band competition last week, the band placed fourth and secured a spot at 5A State for the first time in Argyle history. Today at 5 p.m., the band will perform in the preliminary round at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Results from preliminaries will be announced at 8:45 p.m. “Last year we didn't make it, and it was really devastating,” Obrzut said. “But this year, we made it and we...

Covered with fake blood and hair unbrushed, senior Julian Lafayette was almost unrecognizable. He stood at the entrance to the scene shop, a prop leg in both hands. Directly across from him - a man with a chainsaw. But this wasn’t a scene in a graphic horror film, but rather a scene from the Theatre Department’s haunted house. “The scene shop is super spooky, because I would be at the door, eating a leg, and someone else would just be laying on the floor,” Lafayette said. “They’d get up right as people walk past and then chase him out.”  This Saturday, the Theatre Department...