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5 unusual facts about Olney Theatre Center for the Arts


Des Keogh

In April 2010, Keogh appeared in the title role in the play Da by Hugh Leonard at the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts in Olney, Maryland, USA.

Olney Theatre Center for the Arts

1949 Players, Inc. (now known as National Players, OTC's touring company), is created by Father Gilbert V. Hartke to bring live theater and educational programming to students and public audiences across the United States and overseas.

2005 Olney Theatre Center opens its new amphitheater, the Root Family Stage at Will’s Place, finally giving a permanent home to its Summer Shakespeare Festival.

It presented summer theater where shows featured well-known stars such as Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Tallulah Bankhead, and Helen Hayes.

An award-winning regional theater, Olney Theatre Center is one of only two theaters in the country to operate under an Actors' Equity Association Council of Stock Theaters (COST) contract.



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