Theatre
Each year, West Ottawa Theatre presents 3 productions: a large-scale fall musical, a large-scale winter or spring play, and a one-act play or musical.
The fall musicals in recent years have included Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Once Upon a Mattress, Les Misérables, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Working (musical), "Guys and Dolls", and The Music Man.
The spring or winter plays in recent years have included Scapino!, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Midsummer Night's Dream, "Harvey", "Lord of the Flies", and Flowers for Algernon.
The theatre department recently implemented the International Thespian Society program and hopes to send students to the annual Thespian festival in coming years to participate in workshops and competitions. West Ottawa is Troupe 5081.
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—Mary Pickford (1893–1979)
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