Announcing our 2025-26 Season!
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Thank you for a great 2024-25 season!
Thank you to all of our donors, volunteers, and patrons for helping us present another successful season! Check back in August for the announcement of our 2025-26 season!
Which of our amazing productions did you see this season?
Every Brilliant Thing
by Duncan MacMillan
with Jonny Donahoe
When Mum’s in the hospital and Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’, there’s not much a seven year old can do.
1. Ice cream
2. Water fights
3. Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV.
These are the first three items on a list of every brilliant thing in the world worth living for. Duncan MacMillan’s play Every Brilliant Thing pulls back the curtain on what it’s like to be a child of a suicidal mother and the lengths we go for those we love. Based on true (and untrue) stories, Every Brilliant Thing is a life-affirming story of how to achieve hope through focusing on the smallest miracles of life.
Misery
by William Goldman, from the novel by Stephen King
Performances at Oxford Community Arts Center, 10 South College Ave., Oxford, OH 45056
Out Cry!
by Tennessee Williams
Out Cry is set in an empty, run down theatre in an unspecified location. Siblings Felice and Clare discover that the acting company that they have been directing and touring with has abandoned them for nonpayment of salaries. Deserted and penniless, the two are left to perform a play by themselves without complete set, costume, and props. They must deliver a spectacular performance despite their own insecurities. They are literally playing for their lives. This play is achingly plaintive, amusingly combative, and wildly humorous. Williams believed that this was, “My most beautiful play since Streetcar the very heart of my life.” As with all of Tennessee Williams’ plays, his characters are isolated, flawed, and always fragilely human.
The Woolgatherer
Our first production of the 2023-24 season was a stunning success! Thank you to everyone who came to see this powerful production!
by William Mastrosimone
directed by Cathy and Michael McVey
This “opposites attract” story features Rose, a shy dime-store clerk, and Cliff, a hardworking truck driver, who struggle to find love. First staged in 1979, The Woolgatherer “profiles two lonely people who have nothing in common except that they are in the same room together, yet by the end of the play, they have found each other, soothing their respective senses of isolation and loneliness.” (VC Onstage Review)
Profanity, Poetry, Humor, Hauntings, Wackos, Wine, Birds, Beer, Sweaters, Sweets, and
Nosy Old Ladies
Educating Rita
Educating Rita
by Willy Russell
directed by Ben Mattox
Feb. 16, 17, 18 & 23, 24, 25
This comedy by British playwright Willy Russell is a witty yet poignant look at a working class woman’s attempts to change her social circumstances through pursuit of an Open University qualification. Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books. Enter Rita, a forthright 26 year-old hairdresser who is eager to learn. Their relationship as teacher and student blossoms, ultimately giving Frank a new sense of self and Rita the knowledge she so craves.
Head Elf
Ripcord
2022 -2023 Season
“A situational comedy about adversarial roommates in a nursing home:” A sunny room on an upper floor is prime real estate in the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility, so when the cantankerous Abby is forced to share her quarters with new arrival Marilyn, she has no choice but to get rid of the infuriatingly chipper woman by any means necessary. A seemingly harmless bet between the old women quickly escalates into a dangerous game of one-upmanship that reveals not just the tenacity of these worthy opponents, but also deeper truths that each would rather remain hidden.
Two on the Aisle, Three in a Van
2022 -2023 Season
by Mary Lynn Dobson
directed by Kayleigh Swatzell
Feb. 17, 18, 19 and 24, 25, 26
A hilarious look at theater from the inside out. The show follows a local summer theater troupe through the point of view of the unsung heroes who call the show, run the spotlights, sew the costumes, count the tickets, and suffer through every flubbed line, forgotten prop, and missed cue. In the end, Two on the Aisle, Three in a Van continues to prove the old adage that somehow, some way, the show must go on. And it does—just not always as planned.
That adage has never been more true–after Covid cancelled this show in 2020, and we encountered unforeseen challenges that caused us to replace this show at the last minute last season (with the very successful Edgar Allan Poe Afterlife Radio Show), we are once again giving this production our best shot–third time’s a charm!
AUDITIONS for our 2nd production of the 2025-26 season have concluded. Stay tuned for more information about this February production!
Performance dates Feb. 20, 21 @ 7:30; Feb. 22 @ 2:00; Feb. 27, 28 @ 7:30; Mar. 1 @ 2:00 READ MORE
Strong Girls, Powerful Women: Tales of Triumph
Thank you to everyone who came out to support this production! Keep Your Hands Off My Gender is a humorous and touching story of one girl’s awakening to the politics of authority, gender,... READ MORE
Become an OxACT Supporter!
We count on the generosity of our community as we continue to provide a wonderful training ground for actors, directors, and those most valuable behind-the-scene crews. It takes a lot to put on... READ MORE
Founding Patrons
These are the names of the founding patrons of the Oxford Area Community Theater. Without their faith in the future of community theater in our town, we wouldn’t be here. Susan Braunig Bill... READ MORE
