Photo Coverage: Inside the Ohio Community Theatre Association's Central Region Festival 2018

The Ohio Community Theatre Association (OCTA) held its Central Region Festival on Saturday June 2nd at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. This is a juried festival where the community theaters perform a portion from one of their shows from the past season. Excerpts were by Out of the Box Community Theatre's Harvey, Curtain Players' Wendy Darling, Bucyrus Little Theatre's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Eclipse Theatre Company's Glass, Licking County Players' Almost, Maine, Mount Vernon Players' Dancing On Clouds, and Little Theatre Off Broadway's Psych.

Many of the theater's cast and production staff received awards. Congrats to Curtain Players with Wendy Darling and Eclipse Theatre Company with Glass for being selected to move on to the OCTA State Conference this Labor Day weekend (August31 - September 3). Congrats to Bucyrus Little Theatre with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for being selected as the alternate.

For more information about the winners, the OCTA State Conference on Labor Day weekend and OCTA, please visit https://www.octa1953.org/

Check out a first look below!

Photo Credit: Jerri Shafer

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