ELKINS — The Elkins High School Theatre will premiere its production of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” on Thursday, April 9.

The show will run through Saturday, April 11. The Thursday and Friday performances will begin at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.

The Saturday performance will be a matinee, beginning at 3 p.m., with doors opening at 2:30 p.m. Tickets for the show can be purchased at the door.

“We had such a good experience doing ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ last year, we just had to do another Shakespeare this year,” Elkins High School’s Theatre Director Jennifer Armstrong told The Inter-Mountain. “(The students) were very excited! They’d been begging me to do another Shakespeare as well.”

Armstrong is directing the show alongside fellow EHS teacher Andrew Carroll. This isn’t the first time EHS students have performed Shakespeare, with Armstrong and Carroll having co-directed The Bard’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” last spring. Carroll also directed a production of “Romeo and Juliet” with EHS students in 2023.

When asked how the students have taken to the script, Armstrong said they’ve embraced the writing and have come to enjoy performing Shakespeare’s plays.

“Many of them have shown me the research they’ve done so they can fully understand their lines, without being prompted by myself or Mr. Carroll,” Armstrong said. “It’s impressive.”

The show has faced some challenges though, especially with the number of snow days Randolph County Schools had to call for due to extreme weather, such as the January snowstorm — Jan. 26 through Jan. 30 — when Gov. Patrick Morrisey had to declare a State of Emergency. Despite this, however, Armstrong has confidence in her students. She said that though they had lost a lot of time from the snow days, “it will all come together.”

Armstrong said her students are rightfully excited to perform as they’ve worked hard during rehearsals. She added that she’s confident that it will be a good show.”

When asked what audiences should look out for with the performances, Armstrong said she expected audiences to enjoy the jokes the most as “Twelfth Night” is a comedy.

Armstrong also said audiences should look out for “incredible student involvement” in the show, as students helped design costume pieces and the lighting for scenes.

This show will be the first performance put on in the Elkins High School Theatre since the facility received a brand new lighting system, paid for through a grant from the Snowshoe Foundation.

“We’re always looking for sponsors to help pay for things,” Armstrong told The Inter-Mountain in November before the theatre’s winter performance of “The Velveteen Rabbit.” “Theatre can be expensive. We’re finally going to replace our lights very soon. After that, every dollar we save will be going towards getting new (stage) curtains.”

Though asked, Armstrong couldn’t give any hints as to what shows students and audiences could expect to see in the 2026-2027 school year. She would only say, “You’ll just have to wait and see.”