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The Sound Inside
The Sound Inside
11/7 - 11/17/2024


When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly ...

A Tuna Christmas
A Tuna Christmas
12/5 - 12/15/2024


It’s Christmas in the third-smallest town in Texas. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some making their debut.


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The Off Central Players Will Perform THE SOUND INSIDE


by Stephi Wild - October 30, 2024

The Off Central Players fourth season will continue by featuring artistic associate Roxanne Fay in Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside. ...

Review: A BLISTERING “BLACKBIRD,” WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS at THE OFF-CENTRAL PLAYERS


by Drew Eberhard - September 06, 2024

In researching and marinating the events that played out in my head following the opening night performance of the Off-Central Player’s production of David Harrower’s Blackbird, I ran across this quote. The quote in which I will speak about is actually fitting to the play itself. I’m going to post i...

The Off-Central and Outcast Theatre Collective to Present Regional Premiere ORANGE


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 18, 2024

The Off-Central and Outcast Theatre Collective will join forces for the regional premier of Orange, a play by Aditi Kapil. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Review: WHISKEY & SODA at The Off-Central Players


by Drew Eberhard - February 03, 2024

“IMAGINE...” a table is set, where a meeting is to soon take place between Britain’s First Female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and an Ex-Beatle, John Lennon. This is what is laid forth in Ben Randall’s Whiskey & Soda currently onstage at the Off-Central Players....

Lennon And Thatcher Mix It Up In The U.S. Premiere Of WHISKEY & SODA At The Off-Central Players


by A.A. Cristi - January 18, 2024

John Lennon and Margaret Thatcher mix it up in the U.S. premiere of ‘Whiskey & Soda’ at OCP. Sparks fly, wits are matched, laughs exchanged, and life lessons learned in this play that pits the beloved ex-Beatle against the Prime Minister....

The Off-Central Players to Present Four MainStage Productions & More in 2024


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 29, 2023

After only a two-week holiday break, The Off-Central Players are back in rehearsals all through January to kick off 2024 that features four mainstage productions plus a stand-up comedy series. ...

Review: SCROOGE MACBETH: A MASHUP OF SHAKESPEARE AND CHRISTMAS SHOULD BE ON EVERYONE'S LIST at OFF-CENTRAL PLAYERS


by Drew Eberhard - December 14, 2023

David MacGregor’s Scrooge Macbeth, is a Comedic Holiday Comedy set to the tune of two things... everything Christmas and the most prolific playwright ever known to classical theatre, William Shakespeare. Now I know what your thinking, how can the works of the Bard possibly coincide with that of Holi...

Review: A Powerful Staging Of Jean-Paul Sartre's NO EXIT Takes Center Stage At The Off-Central Players


by Drew Eberhard - November 10, 2023

No Exit is an Existentialist French play from 1944 written by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play had its first performance at the Theatre du Vieux-Colombier in May of the same year. Sartre’s inception of the play centered around this idea of the look and the ontological struggle of being caused to see onese...

The Off-Central Players to Stage Jean-Paul Sartre's NO EXIT


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 03, 2023

The Off-Central Players to stage Jean-Paul Sartre’s Philosophical Masterpiece 'No Exit”. Experience the captivating exploration of existentialism, human nature, and the consequences of our actions in this highly anticipated production....

The Off-Central Players to Present Stage Jean-Paul Sartre's NO EXIT in November


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 13, 2023

Don't miss The Off-Central Players' captivating production of Jean-Paul Sartre's 'No Exit,' a groundbreaking play that delves into existentialism and the consequences of our actions. Get your tickets now for this thought-provoking experience....

Past Shows

The Sound Inside
The Sound Inside
11/7 - 11/17/2024


When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly ...

The Hollow
The Hollow
10/3 - 10/13/2024


A world-premiere, solo performance of  The Hollow .  Adapted for the stage by local theater favorite Roxanne Fay, this Washington Irving classic chiller of Ichabod ...

Blackbird
Blackbird
9/5 - 9/15/2024


In this unremittingly intense 80-minute one-act, Una and Ray, are birds with broken wings—psychologically crippled by an episode that left both their lives in tatters. ...

Whiskey & Soda
Whiskey & Soda
2/1 - 2/11/2024


It is December 17th, 1979. Margaret Thatcher is visiting Washington D.C. Whilst preparing for her first speech at the White House,  she invites a guest for ...

Scrooge MacBeth
Scrooge MacBeth
12/7 - 12/17/2023


  Right on the heels of the sublimely satirical existential hit No Exit,  The Off-Central Players shift to the silly, hilarious and ridiculous. Currently in ...

Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing
9/7 - 9/17/2023


 Duncan MacMillan's   Every Brilliant Thing When Mom’s in the hospital and Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’, there’s not much a seven-year-old can do. Dylan ...

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The Sound Inside in Tampa The Sound Inside
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