ANNOUNCING!
2025 Season Lineup
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Olympic Peninsula Panto:
Cinderella and the Enabling Habit
PA Panto has found a new home at OTA. Pantos provide comedic, over-the-top, mixed up fairy tales with interactive booing and cheering for an evening you have to experience for yourself. This year’s production of Cinderella and the Enabling Habit is no exception. Join Cindy in the kingdom of Sequiminham, as she navigates through her stepsisters’ needs, Lady Tremayne’s demands, Lord Prince’s grand ball. It’s all set in OTA’s Gathering Hall, for an intimate, immersive audience experience.
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Runs February 7th - 23rd
Fools (Members' Choice) - Comedy
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.
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Runs March 7th - 23rd
Wrong Turn at Lungfish - Light Comedy
Audiences in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, where George C. Scott starred, applauded the comedy and the drama of Wrong Turn at Lungfish, the story of a blind and bitter college professor and his encounter with a saucy, streetwise young woman who volunteers to read to him in the hospital. The clash of intellect and wit takes the two from animosity and fear to friendship and understanding. Both come to their relationship with questions, hers dealing with her station in life and her handsome boyfriend, and his about past life choices. Both leave with hopeful answers, even after the boyfriend shows up.
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Runs April 25th - May 11th
Nunsense - Musical
Nunsense is habit-forming! This riotous show is a fundraiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Updated with new jokes, additional lyrics, two new arrangements, and a brand new song, this madcap musical was recorded for television starring Rue McClanahan as the Mother Superior.
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Runs May 22nd - June 15th
Lavender Melodrama - Melodrama
Boo the Villain. Cheer the Hero. Sigh for the Damsel in Distress in this over-the-top melodrama comedy that tells the tale of lavender in Sequim. Everything Sequim and the Olympic Peninsula is fair game in the laugh a minute fest that is equally loved by locals and tourists. Now in its fourth year.
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Runs July 11th - 27th
Close the Door So It Can't Get in Your Room (Youth Theatre) - Drama
This play suggests an answer to that hard-to-answer question: What makes a good teacher? Paul Bennett has many struggles his first year as a teacher—lazy students, indifferent students, rebellious students, flirtatious students, irate parents, indifferent parents and indifferent faculty members. Bennett's biggest struggle, however, is within himself: "Am I doing any good as a teacher?" he asks. "Should I quit and go into some other work?" The author, a veteran educator in North Dakota schools, has given us a play that will tingle the emotions and tickle the laugh box of everyone who has anything to do with education—teachers, administrators, students, parents and taxpayers.
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Runs August 14th - 24th
Inherit the Wind - Drama
This lively courtroom drama dives into the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, where a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching the theory of evolution. Two persuasive attorneys argue the case in an effort to determine the balance of church and state.
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Runs September 12th - 28th
A Murder is Announced (Agatha Christie) - Mystery
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of the house's several occupants, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Agatha Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case's twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution – at some risk to herself – in a dramatic final confrontation.
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Runs October 17th - November 2nd
New Works Showcase - Various
Olympic Theatre Arts Center’s annual New Works Showcase is a series of original, short plays highlighting the written voices of our community. It is an opportunity not only for entertainment, but for local inspiration and education as well.
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Runs November 14th - 23th
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians- Holiday Comedy
The children of Mars are in trouble! Too much Earth television has made Martian kids everywhere distracted and withdrawn. The leaders have had enough and consult with an 800-year-old Martian sage for an answer— the response? Kidnap Santa and force him to set up a toy factory on Mars. It’s up to young Betty and Billy to help Santa escape back to planet Earth in time to save Christmas, but not before they bring laughter, joy, and the Christmas spirit to the children of Mars. Based on one of the “Top 10 Worst Christmas Films Ever Made,” this hysterical stage adaptation of the 1964 Cult Classic Film is a baffling mixture of sci-fi, Christmas cheer, and childish slapstick live and on stage!
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Runs December 5th - 21st
Season Tickets NOW ON SALE at the OTA box office.
Online Sales available starting November 5th!
*Renewing Season Ticket Holders have been sent an email link to renew