Wilson Family
Black Box theatre
OCT's Wilson Family
Black Box Theatre
Our Black Box space has been developing and growing over the past few years. An intimate, underground space with unique ambiance and uses, the Black Box is now home to many celebrated OCT events: The Living Room Reading Series, Papa Capp’s Variety Show, The 10-Minute Play Festival, The Winter Series, Post-Mortem Players smaller productions, and OCT Summer Camps. When not in use for performances, the space can be used for rehearsals and meetings.
OCT views this venue as an opportunity to offer productions and events that call for a more intimate environment, as it holds fewer than half the seats of the main stage. Such a space allows us to explore lesser-known titles and sometimes ‘edgier’ subject matter.
Recently, the Wilson Family Black Box has seen facility improvements, such as isolated heating and air conditioning units, dedicated lighting and sound systems, and updated seating. OCT continues to dedicate resources to further developing and improving the Black Box space for exciting future endeavors.
2026 Wilson Family Black Box Series
Driving Miss Daisy
Written by: Alfred Uhry
Directed by: Lisa Ulanow
Audition Dates: January 4 and 5, 2026
Performance Dates: February 26 to March 1, 2026
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Story: The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer’s patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other.
If All the Sky Were Paper
Written by: Andrew Carroll
Directed by: Dr. Elizabeth Peterson-Vita
Audition Dates: March 8 and 9, 2026
Performance Dates: May 14 to 17, 2026
The Story: After bestselling author Andrew Carroll found a riveting, heartfelt letter written by a distant cousin deployed as a pilot in World War II, he embarked on a trip to all fifty states and to more than thirty countries across the globe, including two active war zones, in search of more wartime correspondences. The letters and emails he found—by combat troops, medics, nurses, and chaplains, as well as family members on the home front and civilians caught in the crossfire of battle—came to represent to Carroll the “world’s great undiscovered literature.” They weren’t just about warfare, he realized, they were about the human condition itself—love and longing, courage and resilience, grief and hope, compassion and mercy, and, ultimately, reconciliation.
Reminder the Deadline for Submissions is Sunday, March 15, 2026.
Living Room
Reading Series
Next Performance:
"Talley's Folley"
February 8, 2026
4 p.m.
Talley's Folly is a 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Lanford Wilson about the unlikely romance between Matt Friedman, a Jewish accountant, and Sally Talley, a nurse from a conservative Missouri family, set in a dilapidated boathouse in 1944 as he tries to convince her to marry him.
Papa Capp's
Music
Papa Capp pitched the idea of a variety show to the Old Courthouse Theatre Board of Directors about two and a half years ago. Since then, we’ve produced the event over 24 times and still going strong!
All acts and performances are welcome to offer their art in a safe and supportive environment. We’ve seen many singers showcasing their original and cover tunes, improvised skits, comedians, story tellers, poets, jugglers, clowns, mimes, Karaoke artists, and much more!
Papa opens the show with a “family friendly” first hour. After a short intermission, Papa comes back with the ‘Stupendously Hilarious Incredible Talent Show’ where anything goes, as long as it’s legal!
Papa Capp’s variety show runs the first Tuesday of each month in the Black Box Theatre. Admission is free (we ask for a small donation if you’re able.) Concessions are available.
Make plans to come out and enjoy a rare evening of a variety of performances. You don’t have to participate if you don’t want to. We hope to see you the first Tuesday of the month! Papa Loves You!”
Post Mortem Players
STAGE FRIGHT IS OUR BUSINESS
Founded in 2022 by horror fan, Charlotte native, and long-time performing arts professional, Chris Stonnell, Post Mortem Players is a new theatre company that specializes in stage works of horror, the macabre, and things that go bump in the night.
Representing the Charlotte, North Carolina region, productions take place at the Old Courthouse Theatre in Concord.
Each season consists of three hair-raising productions: our annual "Christmas Spirits" ghost story in December, and two other classic or contemporary horror plays and musicals, one in October for Halloween and the other in late spring/early summer.
The Third Performance of their 4th Season is Alistair McDowall's "X". Alistair McDowall’s mind-bending sci-fi chiller. On a remote Pluto research base, five astronauts lose contact with Earth and reality.
Performance Dates: June 18, 2026 to June 28, 2026,
