School for performing arts opens in Poland

School for performing arts opens in Poland

By Ashley Luthern

aluthern@vindy.com

POLAND

The hallway wall along the Stage Door is a blackboard, filled with chalk drawings and messages from students.

Near the far corner, at the height limit of a child’s reach, is a drawing of a half-open door with the words “Where dreams begin” scrawled underneath it.

Notes like that, and even the silly ones like “Monologues make me crazy,” tell Teri Nobbs that she made the right decision to expand her business.

Nobbs opened The Stage Door School for Performing Arts last month at 23 W. McKinley Way. It is her second location; the original is in Liberty.

“Our goal is to teach students to love the arts,” Nobbs said.

About 60 students are enrolled in the Poland location, which Nobbs said she opened because some of her students in Liberty were traveling from Columbiana and North Lima.

Students can be as young as 5 up to adults, and the classes vary from acting, singing and dance to art and speech and debate.

Melissa Masternick of Poland, whose daughter Alyssa Masternick, 10, attends several classes at The Stage Door said a school for the arts was “absolutely missing” from the Poland area.

“It helps make her well-rounded, and I like it because there’s no competition,” she said.

Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.