Champion High School Theatre has been named the 2025 UIL Area Champions. The ensemble competed at the 5-A Area One-Act Play competition on Saturday, April 12, performing scenes from Anna Kareninaby Helen Edmundson, a play adapted from the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The Champion Theatre production was selected as the top Advancing Play in the Area. This is the fourth time in the last five years the program has been named Area Champions, and the group will go on to compete at the Regional Contest on Friday, April 25, at Southwest High School in San Antonio. Two schools from the Regional competition will advance to the State contest in May where 8 schools will compete for the State Championship. Out of approximately 437 schools that entered the statewide contest this spring, Champion is now one of only 24 schools remaining in the tournament. The Champion Theatre program hopes to make its third appearance at the State Contest in the last four years; appearances that included a State Championship in 2022 and third place honors in 2023. The UIL One-Act Play contest was established in 1931. Created to spotlight and promote the theatrical arts in Texas public schools, it is the largest high school play production contest in the world.

Shows will begin at 12:00 PM and will run back-to-back. The anticipated performance schedule is as follows:

12:00 PM	Women of Troy	MacArthur HS
	Unexpected Tenderness	McAllen HS
	Kodachrome	Seguin HS
3:00 PM*	Anna Karenina	Champion HS
	33 Variations	Harlingen South HS
	Ripcord	Corpus Christi Miller HS

Tickets are $15, and may be purchased here.

*Times are approximate. Per UIL guidelines, each show may run as short as 18 minutes and as long as 40 minutes. Companies are allowed 7 minutes to set up, and 7 minutes to strike the stage. There will be no admittance to the theater once a show has begun. Audience members are advised to arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the expected start of each show, as they will have to go through an onsite instant background check using their ID.

Individual honors at Area competition include: Marlowe Cooper, All-Star Technician; Jake Jaime in the role of Levin, Honorable Mention All-Star Cast; Aidan Cooper in the role of Vronsky, All-Star Cast; and Riley Meyer in the role of Anna Karenina, Best Performer.