AMSA theater production shines a spotlight on youth homelessness

From left to right, Camron Hamling, Ethan Schommer, Miranda Poferl and Keely Anderson star in “The Boxcar Children,” presented at Anoka Middle School for the Arts Oct. 28-30 and Nov. 4-6. Photo courtesy of Jefferson Fietek

After their parents die, Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny Alden make a home for themselves in an abandoned railroad boxcar to avoid being sent to different foster homes. Together, they have many adventures outrunning the authorities and a mysterious stranger.

The Anoka Middle School for the Arts 2016-2017 theater season begins with Barbara Field’s stage adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner’s classic novel “The Boxcar Children.”

  

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