Unlace Your Imagination
with Durham Shoestring Performers
Oshawa’s Downtown Community Theatre

Announcing a new season for DSP

WHEN POWERS COLLIDE

Discover the shows at 2024-2025 – the 51th Season

Actors, directors, tech folk, designers…all are essential to putting on a show. Stage Managers link all these departments. SM positions are perfect for people who want to make a central contribution to a play. Patient listeners and good organizers make wonderful SMs, and rookies can learn the job! Please join us in Ajax to find out what it is all about.

Something to celebrate – 159 productions in downtown Oshawa, 104 of them Canadian, 34 of them by local writers. Since 1974, DSP’s non-profit objectives have been all about quality and accessibility: to present challenging and entertaining plays with an emphasis on innovative directing and design, and to keep production costs low so that live theatre can be enjoyed by all members of the community. Our shows are always chosen in collaboration with directors so there’s passion for the piece right from the beginning, and auditions are always welcoming, friendly and open to all.

Our Venue

Most DSP events are held on the second floor of the Arts Resource Centre, 45 Queen St., Oshawa, which is fully accessible by ramp outside and elevator indoors. The theatre space is an intimate, air-conditioned 100 seat venue with no seat farther than 8 metres from the action!

Plentiful parking is free after 6 pm. If the lot closest to the building is full, there’s more parking on the south side of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Occasionally there is some congestion if City Hall, the Library, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the Arts Resource Centre are all holding events simultaneously, but we love it when downtown is full of cultural activity.

DSP is a member of the Association of Community Theatres – Central Ontario and the Pine Ridge Arts Council.