Olympic Peninsula Panto:
Dick Wittington And His Amaaazing Cat
(Gathering Hall)
The Panto returns to OTA for its third season bringing with it laughs, fractured fairytales, audience interaction, and nonsensical fun. Panto is a family friendly, musical variety show where you are encouraged to sing along, shout, call out classic catchphrases like "He's behind you!", and have an overall brilliant time!
Runs February 12th- February 28th
Young Will Shakespeare has writer’s block. The deadline for his new play is fast approaching, but he’s in desperate need of inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse... the feisty, brilliant and beautiful Viola. This crafty young woman is Will’s greatest admirer and will stop at nothing (including breaking the law) to appear in his next play. Against a bustling background of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming and backstage theatrics, Will’s love for Viola quickly blossoms, inspiring him to write his greatest romantic masterpiece.
Based on the Academy Award-winning movie, this enchanting, hilarious, romantic stage play reimagines William Shakespeare's creative process- and explores his inspiration-as he writes Romeo and Juliet.
Runs March 5th- March 28th
Shakespeare In Love- Dramatic Comedy
(Main Stage)
New Works Showcase- Various
(Gathering Hall)
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 April 16th-April 25th
Young Frankenstein- Musical Comedy
(Main Stage)
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein!
Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.
​Runs May 28th- June 20th
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 sixth year.
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​​​​​​​​Runs July 9th-July 25th
A Few Good Men- Drama
(Main Stage)
This Broadway hit about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a cover-up of what really happened. Prodded by a female member of his defense team, the lawyer eventually makes a valiant effort to defend his clients and, in so doing, puts the military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.
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​​​​Runs August 27th-September 12th
Blithe Spirit- Comedy
(Main Stage)
A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent and well aware of Charles’ shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone’s personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over” and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
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​​​Runs October 15th- October 31st
A Christmas Carol- Christmas/Holiday
(Main Stage)
It's Christmas Eve, and Ebenezer Scrooge wants nothing to do with the holiday. Then the ghost of his late partner, Jacob Marley, appears with a warning. Over one night, three spirits take Scrooge through his past, his present and the future he's heading toward.
Silker's adaptation moves briskly and tells Dicken's story of second chances at a pace that suits the whole family.
​​​​​​Runs December 3rd- December 19th
