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Otterbein Summer Theatre Presents: Beehive – The 60’s Musical


Otterbein Summer Theatre > Forever Plaid > It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play > Beehive – The 60’s Musical > The Pirates on Penzance > Otterbein Summer Theatre Past Shows > Explore the powerful and iconic female voices that made up the 1960s in this energetic, rockin’ show! Told through the perspective of six women coming of age, the show follows the journey and changes America underwent in the ‘60s by pairing big hairdos with big voices. With…

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It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

Otterbein Summer Theatre Presents: It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play


Otterbein Summer Theatre > Forever Plaid > It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play > Beehive – The 60’s Musical > The Pirates on Penzance > Otterbein Summer Theatre Past Shows > Experience the Golden Age of Radio in this reimagined telling of the beloved holiday classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. Catch a rare glimpse inside the radio sound studio as only a handful of actors portray multiple characters alongside talented foley artists who create all of the sound…

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Otterbein Summer Theatre Presents: Forever Plaid


Otterbein Summer Theatre > Forever Plaid > It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play > Beehive – The 60’s Musical > The Pirates on Penzance > Otterbein Summer Theatre Past Shows > Based on the popular all-male singing groups of the ‘50s, this the story of Sparky, Smudge, Jinx, and Frankie, aka “The Plaids” as they perform the concert that never was. Singing in close harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with…

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The Launch A Senior Cabaret

The Launch 2024: A Senior Cabaret


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Conceived by The Class of 2024 A fundraiser for the New York Senior Showcase, the cabaret will include the favorite songs, dances, scenes and monologues of the Class of 2024. It will be an afternoon of celebration and joy, the perfect…

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9 to 5: The Musical

9 to 5: The Musical


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic. Pushed to the boiling point, three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist,…

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Dance 2023: Escape to Wonderland


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Escape to Wonderland will explore themes of self-discovery, imagination and guiding dreams. This full-length dance concert is a unique conceptual voice inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It is a journey into the depths of relationships, shared love and the darkest…

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Deep in a magical forest, mortals and fairies collide, resulting in tempestuous love triangles, contagious fogs and moonlight revels; proving that “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare’s best-known comedy is a fairy tale about the complexities of…

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Everybody


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Death has come, but Everybody, an ordinary human, can’t go quietly, and most certainly can’t go alone. Desperate to hold onto something familiar, Everybody looks to Friendship, Kinship, Stuff, Mind, Five Senses, Understanding, and Love to accompany them on this unexpected…

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Cabaret


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Willkommen to the tantalizing Kit Kat Club where troubles of the outside world are willfully forgotten, and artists and outcasts are free to gather for experiences of pleasure and debauchery! Set in 1929, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous lives…

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Otterbein Summer Theatre Presents

Otterbein Summer Theatre Presents: Baby


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Three couples on a university campus deal with the painful, rewarding and agonizingly funny consequences of the universal experience of pregnancy and upcoming parenthood. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult lives; the thirty-somethings, having trouble…

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Otterbein Summer Theatre Presents: I Do! I Do!


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > I Do! I Do! is a musical valentine and celebration of a marriage. Written by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (The Fantasticks), the original Broadway production received seven Tony Award nominations. This touching story of two soulmates navigating the perils of life…

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Dance 2022

Dance 2022: Find Me in the Shadows


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > One weekend only! A murder has been committed. The journey to reveal the culprit has many twists and turns. Between the light and the shadows, suspects reveal their humanity and their secrets. Whodunnit? That’s for you to decide. Magnificently conceived by…

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Our Town

Our Town


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > A landmark in American drama, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager, the play depicts the simple daily…

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Bright Star

Bright Star


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Inspired by a true story and featuring the Tony®-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ’40s.…

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A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Set in Sweden, A Little Night Music explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When the traveling actress…

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Black Comedy

Black Comedy


Current Performances > The Importance of Being Earnest > Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 > The Laramie Project > Footloose > The Launch: A Senior Cabaret > Subscribe to the 2024-25 Season > Past Performances > Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d’arte “borrowed” from the absent antique collector next door, hoping to impress his fiancée’s pompous father and a wealthy art dealer. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe, returns…

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