Theatre Off The Square is the oldest running live theatre group in Weatherford, Texas. It is a subsidiary of the Parker County Fine Arts Association, a nonprofit 501 (c) 3 corporation and is managed by a Board of Directors who donate their time, effort, and resources to benefit the theatre and the community. All of our productions require a lot of team volunteer effort – from the actors on stage and the crew behind the scenes to the folks who run “Front of House,” such as the Box Office and Concessions. It is a 100% volunteer organization. The theatre operates on donations and tickets sales alone.
TOTS, as its loyal patrons call it, has produced some of the most popular and entertaining plays and musicals in America, including plays by premier playwrights like Neil Simon and Agatha Christie as well as popular contemporary playwrights like Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard of Tuna fame and the team Jones Hope Wooten. Several playwrights have visited the theatre, including Jones Hope Wooten who attended the theatre’s production of their play “The Red Velvet Cake War” which was the Southwest Premiere of the show and the WORLD PREMIERE of their play “Doublewide, Texas Christmas.”
The theatre extends their knowledge of theatre arts to the community by holding Theatre Off The Square’s Summer Kids Theatre Camp for youth entering grades 1 – 9 for twelve years running.
We have bright things on the horizon and with your help we can focus on building community in theatre!
The mission of the Parker County Fine Arts Association dba. Theatre Off The Square is to entertain our patrons with quality productions, educate our public about live theatre, and nurture theatrical talent through inclusivity, collaboration, and a strong partnership with our community.
At Theatre Off The Square, we strive to educate the public about live theatre, and this most definitely includes the youth of our community.
We have offered summer theatre camp for Grades 3 – 9 now for 12 years featuring sessions such as fight choreography, musical theatre, improv, and more. This past year, we extended into our StageStruck Theatre Academy to provide fall and spring classes and workshops for learners of all ages.
The continued growth of the size of our education program means an increased cost to pay instructors and camp staff. This along with the increase in supply costs have added to the our annual cost of fulfilling our mission to provide quality theatre education in our community.
The fine arts are not always deemed as important as the academics in schools, and in some areas of the country, the arts have been totally cut. Some children have an innate ability to perform but need to be guided and taught to ensure a successful venture into the performing arts. Others are just wanting to do something fun and perhaps out of the ordinary. Theatre is intriguing, thought provoking, challenging and a great opportunity for life-long learning.
As an additional need, we wish to make physical improvements to our venue for the comfort and enjoyment of our patrons and volunteers. Thanks to the generosity of our patrons, the renovation of our ceiling and addition of new spray in insulation is almost complete! Last year's North Texas Giving Day donations went a long way toward making that happen as well as contributing to some much needed technical upgrades. Our next immediate projects will be 1) making a much needed fix to the plumbing connection in front of the building and 2) updating our front doors as well as the side doors of the building with emergency push bars for the safety and security of everyone in our building.
We're also still in need of updating our flooring and theatre seating, continuing to upgrade stage lighting to LED for energy efficiency and reduction of heat from the incandescent lighting, and eventually making some upgrades to one of our air conditioning units.
Although this year we were finally able to begin paying our directors, we also still have a future goal of being able to invest more in our artists by being able to pay more members of our creative teams a small stipend.
Core Values:
At Theatre Off The Square, we will strive every day to practice these IDEALS or values as an organization and as people:
I - We will continue to operate with INTEGRITY.
D - We will open our hearts and minds to be DIVERSE and INCLUSIVE in our artistic presentations.
E - We will foster EMPATHY through our art to encourage UNDERSTANDING of the rights, gifts, opinions, talents, and culture of our Patrons, Partners, Community, and Artists.
A - We are ACCEPTING of people from any race, color, national origin, religion, gender identification, sexual orientation, or disability.
L - We will promote theatre arts with LOYALTY to the purpose of our craft.
S - We are an organization committed to bringing joy with a SERVANT’S heart.
Organization name
Theatre Off The Square
Tax id (EIN)
75-2772329
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker, Tarrant
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Address
PO BOX 1444