Community Theater for The Outer Banks
Theatre of Dare began in 1991 with the help of Ruth Ambrosius and Pat Clayton with the Outer Banks Forum. The first organizational meeting was held in November of that year and along with the Dare County Arts Council "TOD" was born. Actually, the original (and mercifully brief) name of Theatre of Dare was the "Players of Truth and Dare"!
Auditions for the first production, California Suite, were held in January 1992, and the show was performed at the Port O'Call restaurant March 19-22, 1992, to great acclaim and gustatory delight. After a few other interesting locations were tried, the Theatre finally settled in the College of the Albemarle (formerly Manteo Middle School) auditorium, which had appropriate seating and a real theatrical stage... until 2017 when the auditorium was closed and torn down. Between 2017 and 2022, Theatre of Dare was a theatre 'on the run', performing in locations such as the Lost Colony Sound Stage, the Dare County Arts Council, Festival Park, and the Elizabethan Gardens. Finally, in 2022, almost thirty years to the day of our first production, Theatre of Dare opened its own place in Kitty Hawk, creating a brand new space for the performing arts in Dare County.
