Open Circle Theatre advances the idea that disability can enhance the artistic experience, inspire aesthetic innovation, and influence a community to become accessible for all. Through the arts, a community can be brought together to celebrate all abilities and embrace similarities rather than differences.
Mission Statement
Open Circle Theatre produces high-quality, inventive theatre productions that provide opportunities for professional theatre artists with and without disabilities. Consequently, a space is established that:
• Exposes the work of artists and arts administrators with disabilities in an integrated setting and celebrates the innovative artistic aesthetic that can be generated
• Creates an environment that is accessible to all and strives to provide an equivalent experience for every member of a diverse audience.
• Uses the performing arts to make education and learning inclusive for all students and all types of learners
• Mentors the development of professional artists with disabilities.
Activities and Programs
Mounts professional theatre productions featuring artists with and without disabilities, designs programming that ensures inclusive arts education, and creates a space where artists with disabilities can be mentored.
Population
Artists with and without disabilities, students with disabilities, the disability community, and the general public
Reviews
Open Circle Theatre’s mesmerizing production of The Who’s Tommy …is a stunning testament to the power of art to entertain, provoke and console. – The Washington Blade
The exuberant production plays on the now outdated anthems of that deaf, dumb and blind kid by doubling all of the main characters with American Sign Language interpreters. The pairings fit perfectly in a work that is already dominated by a mirror that eventually shatters – as this production does to barriers. – Broadway World