On April 22 and 23, Theater Centreville performed their spring musical, Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka. This was Centreville’s second show of the year, after a successful run of Mutually Assured Destruction...

After 35 years and 13,981 performances, Broadway’s longest running show, The Phantom of the Opera, has closed its doors. Composed by Broadway legend Andrew Lloyd Webber, Phantom, based on the 1910 novel...

On March 12, 2023, the 95th Oscars ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by late night host Jimmy Kimmel for the third time. Some of the most popular...

Centreville’s Robotics Club has started a month-long robotics club at Bull Run Elementary School to “introduce and explore concepts of robotics, guiding [students] but allowing for their own exploration,”...

The nominees for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on January 24, 2023. Unsurprisingly, the nominations were led by sci-fi hit Everything Everywhere All At Once, with 11 nominations, followed closely...

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), an FCPS school named one of the best high schools in the country, was caught withholding National Merit commendations from its students,...

On December 2nd, Mrs. Cash’s human anatomy class studied the integumentary system by doing a wound lab. The students created fake, but realistic, wounds on their bodies to learn about injuries to the...

From November 18th-20th, Theatre Centreville performed their fall play, Mutually Assured Destruction: 10 Plays About Brothers and Sisters by Don Zolidis. The show was split up into two acts, which together...

The School For Good and Evil is a young adult fantasy film released by Netflix on October 19, 2022. It is based on the book series of the same name by Soman Chainani. The School for Good and Evil contains...

After shutting down in 2017 due to bankruptcy, popular toy store Toys R Us is back, now inside Macy’s department stores. Toys R Us, once a staple for holiday shopping, has been shut down for several...

Jennette McCurdy’s shocking memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died, published on August 9th, 2022, has been topping the New York Times nonfiction list for weeks since its release. McCurdy is primarily known for...

The 94th Oscar Awards ceremony, which was aired live to an audience of over 16 million viewers, is shaping up to be one of the most memorable in years. It was a night of historic wins, but the most significant...

Britney Spears’s conservatorship could be coming to a close after her father, Jamie Spears, filed to end it after 13 years. A conservatorship is a legal arrangement where a person (conservator) is in...

Celebrities are everywhere. Almost everyone can name a favorite actor, musician, or even reality TV star. It’s almost human nature to be attracted to these figures who live a life many people dream of,...

In the past few years, film and television remakes have become more and more common, and Hollywood has started to face more backlash for it. The most recent example of this came when The CW released a...

Brood X, a swarm of billions of cicadas that only emerge every 17 years, will be coming back this summer. It was last seen in the year 2004, meaning some CVHS students weren’t alive the last time they...

Theatre Centreville is gearing up for its 2021 spring production of Disenchanted! There are dozens of enthusiastic CVHS students involved in technical, training, and acting roles. The musical will include...

On February fifth, The New York Times released Framing Britney Spears, an episode in their series of individual documentaries, “The New York Times Presents,” made for Hulu and FX. The documentary covers...

Recently, the Centreville Sentinel asked students to fill out a poll about their opinions on virtual learning and the upcoming plans to have students return in person. Freshmen and seniors will go back...

With the spread of COVID-19 came the closing of theaters around the world, and the longest shutdown in the history of Broadway. But now, the theater has found a new home on TikTok. In what is known as...

Last Friday, December 11, Taylor Swift released her ninth studio album, Evermore, less than five months after her previous album, Folklore. The album features 15 songs, not including the two bonus tracks...

Jane Austen is regarded as one of the most famous authors in the world, and is the author of several literary classics including Pride and Prejudice and Emma. While she is very well known to many, knowledge...

Now that Halloween is over, stores are beginning to fill their aisles with red and green, and Mariah Carey’s earworm, “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, is beginning its annual rise in popularity....

Throughout the spread of COVID-19, people have started watching lots of TV to pass all of the time spent inside. But soon enough, the last episodes left of shows were aired, and nothing new was being filmed...

The 74th Tony Award nominations were held on YouTube on October 15, 2020. It was hosted by 2014 Tony winner for Aladdin, James Monroe Iglehart. The ceremony began with Iglehart in his home, in front...

After Broadway shut down on March 12 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, there was a lot of confusion surrounding the rest of the season. Now that the shutdown has been extended into 2021, it has created...