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2026: Season 3
AMERICAN MYTHS
Stay tuned! We'll be announcing our new season shortly.
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The Off Center's unique puppet-theatre adaptation of ETA Hoffman's original story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Absolutely no tutus!
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When her mother invites a mysterious clock-maker to their holiday festivities, Marie plunges into an imaginary world populated by toy soldiers and talking rodents.
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December 11-13, and 18-20
7pm
Shenandoah LGBTQ Center,
The Masonic Building (Two doors west of Baja Bean)
​13 W Beverley St Fifth Floor, Staunton, VA 24401
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Make a Gift and Your Gift will be doubled.
A very generous and mysterious benefactor has made a matching challenge donation. This means that between now and April 16 your gift will be doubled.
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We believe strongly in the importance of daring independent theatre, locally conceived, written, cast, created and presented. Help us to bring you the strangest stories we can think of, the weirdest puppets we can cobble, soul-stirring music, and thoughtful conversations.
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Your donations will help us pay our performers, and while we try to use recycled materials, there are several materials needed to turn our garbage into art. As our ensemble and our ambitions grow, things like lighting and sound equipment, and old refrigerators creep into the budget. Become our patron, and make our work possible.
The Off Center's Mission
The Off Center is a Staunton, Virginia based organization that brings people of every background together to experience curious stories and experiences. We believe in the intrinsic value of gathering and exploring thoughts that we’ve never thought. We encourage novelty and disruption. Discovery is a basic human need. We seek to fill it.
The work that we create and support is off center, inviting participants to see something askew, possibly something previously unconsidered, maybe something uncommon or even disquieting. An aslant view, we believe, brings us all together as community, welcoming our quirky and genuine selves.