Youth Program
Youth Theatre - Next Gen
Our NextGen Youth Theatre program is exactly what the name implies. 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 Next Gen’s mission is to give our surrounding community open opportunities to immerse themselves into the world of theatre. Whether it’s 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.
OCT Youth Theatre - Next Gen Announces our Fall 2026 Show
Night at the Wax Museum
by Craig Sodaro
Performance Dates:
September 10 to 14, 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! Supposedly, there’s a mighty valuable one hidden in the museum! It’s a wild goose chase to find it, with a greedy museum landlord and her bumbling son joining in the mad search. And why is Lizzie Borden lurking in the shadows, since the aunts say they never had a wax figure of her?! 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
Thank you for a fantastic 2026 Summer Camp Season!
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