Bringing live theater to the Willamette Valley since 1950

ACT is an all-volunteer, non-profit community theater that takes pride in producing a year-round season of top-quality comedies, dramas, and musicals chosen to appeal to a wide range of audience tastes, and to provide creative opportunities for local actors, technicians, and theater lovers.

Cultivating an appreciation of the performing arts through education, experience, and collaboration.

Upcoming Shows

Blithe Spirit

By Nöel Coward

Directed by: Shauna Kiefiuk 
Performances: Sept. 19, 20, 21(m), 26, 27, 28(m), Oct. 2, 3, 4

A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent and well aware of Charles’ shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone’s personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over” and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity. (Concord Theatricals)

84, Charing Cross Road

By Helene Hanff, James Roose-Evans

Directed by: Charlotte Headrick
Performances: October 18

This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff first writes Marks & Co. and ends up corresponding with Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of many old volumes to Helen. She in turn shows her gratitude through the years by sending “care packages” to the staff of Marks & Co.

Evil Dead the Musical

Book and Lyrics by: George Reinblatt
Music by: Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris, George Reinblatt

Directed by: Johanna Spencer 
Performances: Oct. 24, 25, 31(midnight) Nov. 1, 2(m), 6, 7, 8, 2025

After a riotous success in 2024, ACT is proud to perform an encore of Evil Dead The Musical for our anniversary season.

Evil Dead The Musical takes all the elements of the cult classic films The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 and combines them for one of the craziest, funniest, and bloodiest theatrical experiences of all time.

Barefoot in the Park

By Neil Simon

Directed by: Becky Roth
Performances: Dec. 5, 6, 7(m), 12, 13(cc), 14(m, cc), 18, 19, 20

Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He’s a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she’s a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find – too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six-day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie’s loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic, Velasco, where everything that can go wrong does. Paul just doesn’t understand Corie, as she sees it. He’s too staid, too boring, and she just wants him to be a little more spontaneous. Running “barefoot in the park” would be a start…

Get Involved

  • Volunteer

    Everything we do – from acting and directing to building sets, selling tickets and decorating our building – is done by volunteers … about 300 of them each season! And we’re always looking for more

  • Audition

    Auditions are held for each show two to three months before performance dates. You do not need to have any experience to audition for a show; newcomers are always welcome!

  • Become a Member

    Membership gives you voting privileges at our quarterly membership meetings on matters ranging from new capital projects to selection of our production season and board of directors.

LEARN MORE

  • Evil Dead The Musical (2024)

  • Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2024)

  • Irving Berlin's White Christmas (2024)

  • Ride the Cyclone (2025)

  • Ride the Cyclone (2025)

  • The Big 5-0 (2025)

  • The Big 5-0 (2025)

  • The Little Mermaid Jr. (2024)