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Dreams of Hope "Being in, Being OUT"

April 1, 2012  at 2.00pm at Off The Wall Theater Where do you belong?    What does it feel like?   What does it mean to belong? Trying to find one's niche in life, the idea of belonging floats to the surface of many minds. Through the use of multiple creative mediums, queer youth and allies come together on stage, transforming Off The Wall Theater in to a space of exploration around belonging, while exploring this journey through spoken word such as this at the preview show:  I belong in the sound of the song of myself  I belong in my own groove  I belong/ in the sound of my joints cracking  to the feeling of my hands in mittens  I belong in the ragtime tongue twist of my next verse  I BELONG Come to Off The Wall Theater to see our Season show to experience what young queer youth and allies feel and think about belonging as the Dreams of Hope's Performance Troupe in Being in, Being OUT, an original show consisting of spoken word, movement, dra

Our New And Improved Mission Statement

Off The Wall is a theater production company whose mission is to enrich, enliven, educate, amaze and entertain our audiences, to help create a more conscious and compassionate community while increasing the public knowledge and appreciation of theater in South Western Pennsylvania, and to nurture, challenge, inspire and empower women theater artists from our area and beyond to collaborate as playwrights and directors, explore new ideas, and develop new works. Please follow this link . The article by Marsha Norman (we proudly staged her play 'night, Mother in 2010) helped with our decision to add the focus on women theater artists to our mission statement.

And Baby Makes Seven - post mortem

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If you missed Baby click the video for a few funny moments during rehearsal and check below for critics reviews. " I've never heard an audience at Off the Wall laugh more raucously or with more frequency than they did last Friday, at the play and at the finesse and versatility that were obvious in the performances given by Robyne Parrish, Tressa Glover and Tony Bingham." Observer - Reporter "The cast is brilliant with pitch-perfect comic timing. But it is Glover who gives the tour-de-force performance of the show." Pittsburgh Theater Today "Off The Wall Productions again lives up to its name, offering a play which clambers and crawls over provocative space, defying conventions, prodding us to ponder what's inside." Pittsburgh City Paper " High Strung Menage a Trois Makes Myriad of Mirthful Moments...Washington's Off The Wall Theater comes up with yet another delightful way to spend the evening." Pittsburgh OWL Scribe