The Colonial Players are an extra curricular theatre program founded in 1977 that strives to produce professional-quality musicals and plays.

They serve primarily to enhance live theatre performances in the local community and to give students an opportunity to express themselves.

The musical production's earn critic acclaim by the Greater Philadelphia Cappies, a high school theatre awards program, and took home their first Cappie award in 2006 in Props and Effects for the design of an oversized piano in Big, The Musical.

In 2009, the Colonial Players earned 13 Cappie nominations for their production of Little Shop of Horrors, "Best Show" being among them.

In the 2012–2013 season, the Colonial Players put on Father of the Bride and Guys and Dolls, which was well revered by the high school Cappie reviewers.