Orrville Community Theater is excited to announce The Light in the Library! This will be a Rising Stars Workshop for ages 6-18. Sign-up for auditions here! Walk-ins are also welcome!

Director – Chelsea Alleman

Assistant Directors: Annie & Dominic DiScipio

Workshop cost is $40 for the first child and $35 for each sibling in same family. Our Rising Stars workshops teach children about live theater.

Rehearsals will be held at Christ United Church of Christ on Mondays from 6-8pm and Thursdays from 7-8:30pm beginning May 20.

Our Rising Stars show will be on August 16-18 at Christ United Church of Christ.

Talk about literature coming to life! Gabby suspects something is going on in the library at night, so she enlists the help of her best friend, Paige, to do some sleuthing. Together they hide in the library after it closes and discover that it’s haunted by a silent ghost who leads them to a book containing a cryptic poem. As Paige and Gabby decipher the poem, they find clues that enable them to bring fictional characters to life, starting with Jim Hawkins from Treasure Island. Jim helps them summon even more characters from other books and soon, the library is overrun with the denizens of literature — Humpty Dumpty, the Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Romeo, and others. Things are definitely out of hand, but they take a turn for the worse when — shiver me timbers! — Long John Silver is inadvertently brought to life. The pirate sets out on a thieving spree, and he’s not afraid to use his cutlass to get what he wants! It’s up to Paige, Gabby and Jim to defeat the pirate and return the characters to their stories before the library reopens. All that’s necessary for a happy ending is courage, ingenuity… and one more character brought to life.