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2025 Season
Every story starts with the arrival of someone to some place they don't belong.
Amerika: The Boy Who Disappeared
April 17-26 - Thursday - Saturday, 7pm
Staunton Augusta Art Center
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
June 12-14 - Thursday - Saturday, 7pm
Staunton Augusta Art Center
Dad's Original Tangy BBQ Sauce
July 16-26 - Thursday - Saturday, 7pm
Staunton Augusta Art Center
Degenerate: the Dejarnette Project
September 11-20 - Thursday - Saturday, 7pm
Staunton Augusta Art Center
Stories From the Ether
October 16-25 - Thursday - Saturday, 7pm
Staunton Augusta Art Center
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
December 11-20 - Thursday - Saturday, 7pm
SolArt Center
Amerika: The Boy Who Disappeared
​April 17-19, 24-26 @ 7pm
Staunton Augusta Art Center
20 S New Street, Staunton
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A wild adaptation of Kafka's unfinished epic
novel. Karl Rossman has been banished to the
United States by his family. Join us for a look at a
kid finding a new beginning in a strange new
world through the eyes of an immigrant, filtered
through Kafka's horrifying imagination and The Off
Center's playful puppetry.​
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An Off Center Fundraiser
OFF OUR ROCKER HAPPY HOUR
Featuring Performances by Maria Leckey and the Off Center 2025 Ensemble
Tuesday, Aprill 22: 6 - 8pm
The Green Room - 130W. Beverley Street
$10 suggested donation at the door
Drink Specials
Music and Puppets
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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.