Nuns, Martians and a courtroom classic take the stage at Olympic Theatre Arts next year.
Actors and theater staff revealed the 2025 show schedule on Oct. 5 from OTA’s main stage with short snippets of the 10 productions to come.
They start with Olympic Peninsula Panto offering “Cinderella and the Enabling Habit” in February, with one highlight being “Nunsense” next May and June, and finishing the year with the stage-adaptation of the cult classic sci-fi flick “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” in December.
Season tickets are on sale now at the OTA box office, 414 N. Sequim Ave., and go online starting Nov. 5. Find the full 2025 show list and tickets for the remainder of 2024’s shows at olympictheatrearts.org.
Rounding out OTA’s productions for 2024 are “Night of the Living Dead” (Oct. 18-27), the New Works Showcase (Nov. 15-24) and “The Rented Christmas” (Dec. 6-22).
2025 OTA shows
• “Cinderella and the Enabling Habit” by Olympic Peninsula Panto
Feb. 7-23, Gathering Hall
PA Panto brings comedic, over-the-top, mixed up fairy tales with interactive booing and cheering. Join Cindy in the kingdom of Sequiminham, as she navigates through her stepsisters’ needs, Lady Tremayne’s demands, Lord Prince’s grand ball.
• “Fools” by Neil Simon (OTA Members’ Choice)
March 7-23, Main Stage
Leon Tolchinsky lands an ideal teaching job but finds life in his new town is all backwards and the town has been cursed with chronic stupidity. However, Leon only has 24 hours to break the curse or he becomes stupid, too.
• “Wrong Turn at Lungfish” by Gary Marshall and Larry Ganz
April 25-May 11, Gathering Hall
Wrong Turn at Lungfish” follows a blind and bitter college professor and his encounter with a saucy, streetwise young woman who volunteers to read to him in the hospital. The clash of intellect and wit takes the two from animosity and fear to friendship and understanding.
• “Nunsense” by Dan Goggin
May 22-June 15, Main Stage
This riotous show is a fundraiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Updated with new jokes, additional lyrics, two new arrangements and a brand new song.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ “Nunsense” was announced on Oct. 5 as part of Olympic Theatre Arts’ 2025 run of stage shows. It will run May 22-June 15 on the main stage with new jokes, arrangements, and a brand new song.
• “Lavender Melodrama” by David Herbelin
July 11-27, Main Stage
Once again, OTA invites you to 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.
• “Close the Door So It Can’t Get in Your Room” by Ev Miller (Youth Production)
Aug. 14-24, Main Stage
Paul Bennett has many struggles his first year as a teacher with a range of students, faculty and parents — but his biggest struggle is within himself. The author, a veteran educator in North Dakota schools, shares a play that will tingle the emotions and tickle the laugh box of everyone who has anything to do with education — teachers, administrators, students, parents and taxpayers.
• “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Sept. 12-28, Gathering Hall
This lively courtroom drama dives into the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial where a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching the theory of evolution. Two persuasive attorneys argue the case in an effort to determine the balance of church and state.
• “A Murder is Announced (Agatha Christie)” by Leslie Darbon
Oct. 17-Nov. 2, Main Stage
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. The victim is not one of the house’s several occupants, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Agatha Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution – at some risk to herself – in a dramatic final confrontation.
• “New Works Showcase”
Nov. 14-23, Gathering Hall
Olympic Theatre Arts Center’s annual New Works Showcase is a series of original, short plays highlighting the written voices of the community.
• “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” by Mark Landon Smith
Dec. 5-21, Main Stage
Based on 1964 cult classic film with a weird mix of sci-fi, Christmas cheer and childish slapstick now live on the stage. The children of Mars are in trouble as too much Earth television has made Martian kids everywhere distracted and withdrawn. The leaders have had enough and consult with an 800-year-old Martian sage for an answer— the response? Kidnap Santa and force him to set up a toy factory on Mars. It’s up to young Betty and Billy to help Santa escape back to planet Earth in time to save Christmas, but not before they bring laughter, joy, and the Christmas spirit to the children of Mars.
For more about the 2025 OTA season, visit olympictheatrearts.org/2025season. Or, call the OTA box office at 360-683-7326.
