Oddfellows Playhouse

Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater is a Middletown-based non-profit which offers classes, productions and special events in theater, dance, music, circus and visual arts to kids ages 4 – 20 and their families. Founded in 1975 by a small group of college students, Oddfellows has grown into Connecticut’s oldest and largest theater program for young people.

We believe that access to high-quality arts experiences is a fundamental right. Throughout its history, Oddfellows has remained committed to artistic excellence and social change. The Playhouse’s mission has three parts: 

1) an artistic dimension to provide high-quality theater by and for young people; 

2) an educational dimension to promote the growth of young people--in skills, knowledge, and self-confidence--through the performing arts; and 

3) a social action dimension to offer opportunities especially to underserved and at-risk youngsters to promote the development of a genuinely multiracial, multicultural society. 

Individual Playhouse programs must address at least one of these broad goals; Playhouse activities as a whole must address all three.

Signature programs include the Teen Repertory Company, Circophony Teen Circus, Oddbridge After-School Program and the Children’s Circus of Middletown.