Youth Program
Youth Theatre — Next Gen
Youth Theatre — Next Gen
The participants in our NextGen are the next generation to run theaters everywhere! We are helping to shape the future with an inclusive family environment where youth are empowered to hone the skills they are interested in pursuing, using a compassionate educational environment.
Our NextGen'ers can immerse themselves in all aspects of production with enthusiasm and fun through summer camps, youth productions, and shadowing mentors on mainstage and Black Box productions. OCT's NextGen mission is to give our surrounding community open opportunities to immerse themselves into the world of theatre. Whether it is tech, directing, stage management, costuming, acting, or front of house, we want this to be an inclusive, fun and educational space for lovers of theatre and others who want to support the arts.
Fall 2026 Youth Production
Night at the Wax Museum
by Craig Sodaro
Performances: September 10 – 13, 2026
School's out for summer, but not for six unlucky students who don't know much about history — they have to re-take the class in summer school. First year teacher Heather Fairchild has arranged for them to help her two aunts set up a new wax museum as a class project. Though the students' eyes glaze over with boredom, there's a twinkle in the wax figures' eyes when a mysterious incantation from the back of Cleopatra's bracelet brings them to life!
King Henry VIII finds himself smitten with Cleopatra, making his queen, Anne Boleyn, furious. If she can just not lose her head, John Adams is there to serve as her divorce attorney. When Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Blackbeard and a bevy of lady pirates show up, everybody's out for one thing — treasure! Join the hilarious fun as treasure-hungry outlaws, pirates and royalty mount the greatest siege since Vicksburg!
Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Denver, Colorado.
Summer Camp Programs 2027
Call for proposals: proposals for our 2027 Summer Camp Programs are now open. Completed proposals are due on or before November 20, 2026.
Submit a camp proposalRegistration for Summer Camps will open in late January 2027. Check back for our camps and information in January.
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