Announcing the 2020 OACT Season
Buy your Season Tickets before the Shirley Valentine opening night party on January 24 and receive a chance to win one of three outstanding prizes:
- an oil pet portrait by Ojai artist Sharon Butler, value $600
- two VIP Tickets to the Ojai Film Festival, value $300
- dinner for two at Ca’ Marco, value $100
In 2020, the Ojai Art Center marks its 81st anniversary. It is the longest, continuously running Art Center in California. The outstanding community theater has planned a diverse group of plays and musicals to pay tribute to its longevity and the quality of its productions.
This year’s season consists of three plays and two musicals.
This year’s season consists of three plays and two musicals.
SHIRLEY VALENTINE Jan. 24 – Feb. 16
An ordinary middle class housewife reminisces about her life with her husband, her children, her past. She accepts an invitation from a girlfriend to join her in Greece in search of romance and adventure, and finds it, with a local fisherman. Will she stay with him? This Tony award winning play deals with a real “change of life” in a heartfelt and hilarious manner. Directed by Steve Grumette. 
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE March 20 – April 12
Winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play this playful Chekhov parody from the offbeat mind of Christopher Durang offers siblings who bicker and dicker, drink liquor and snicker in an old farmhouse on a Bucks County, Pennsylvania cherry orchard. Movie-star-sister Masha dresses as Snow White and Spike strip teases to the delight of (almost) everyone! Directed by Linda Livingston. 
THE MIRACLE WORKER Nov. 20 – Dec. 13
This classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller, and dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent and spoiled. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured silence. Directed by Gai Jones. |
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN May 8 – May 31
This hilarious musical entertainment brings you the story of Frankenstein as transmogrified through the no-filter brain of writer, Mel Brooks. Get ready for bad puns, good badinage, the hunchback Igor, the leggy assistant, Inga, clever songs, outrageous dances and barely controlled mayhem in this Monster-mashup and goulash of ghoulish farce. As young Frankenstein would say, “it’s alive!” Directed by John Medeiros. 
THE MUSIC MAN June 26 – July 26
Harold Hill is back with his blend of charming smarm and musical magic, while falling in love with Marian the Librarian. Who can resist the classic songs, “TilThere was You,” “76 Trombones,” or “Goodnight, My Someone?” You’ll “Pick a Little, Talk a Little,” as that “Trouble in River City,” that starts with “T” and rhymes with “P” is lovingly sorted out! Directed by Tracey Williams Sutton. 
The Art Center Youth Branch presents Frozen Kids Aug 6-9. Ticket prices are $10. This is not part of your season ticket.
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