An exciting announcement rang out across Facebook and YouTube in early March as this year’s nominees were selected for the fifth annual Palm Awards. The nominees were selected from 19 plays and 21 musicals performed at Rio Grande Valley-area high schools. The Palms first rolled out the red carpet in 2017. The awards are the brainchild of former Pharr-San Juan-Alamo theater directors Michael Alebis and Gilbert Zepeda Jr. Alebis and…
Hundreds of Rio Grande Valley high-school theater students will learn who receives the pinnacle of their secondary theater careers, a Palm, on May 15. The red carpet will roll out for these students from more than 30 high schools at the Palm Awards that evening at the McAllen Performing Arts Center. PSJA ISD high-school-theater teachers Michael Alebis and Gilbert Zepeda Jr. began the Palm Awards in 2017. The vision was…
The annual celebration of high-school theater in the Rio Grande Valley, the Palm Awards is going online. Event organizers of the Palm Awards will livestream the awards show May 24 at 3 p.m. on the Palm Awards Facebook page, on TV (Somos El Valle channel 5.2 or cable 1240) and also streaming online. “The Palm Awards is the ultimate celebration of high-school theater in our region, with over 1,700 in…