Orlando Family Stage invites generations of patrons, artists, volunteers and art lovers to walk through history at its 100-Year Reunion this week.
Part of the theater’s Centennial Celebration, the reunion event takes place Tuesday, Feb. 3, and marks exactly 100 years since the Orlando Family Stage presented its first plays in Orlando at the former Beacham Theatre.
The reunion happens from 5:30 to 8 p.m., is free to attend and will feature food, beverages and opportunities for attendees to connect with other theater enthusiasts. There will be archival tables displaying programs, costume sketches and artifacts from every decade of the organization’s past.
Now named the Orlando Family Stage, the theater in the past was known as the Central Florida Civic Theatres and then the Orlando Repertory Theatre, aka The Rep. The most recent renaming, in 2023, was intended to represent the theater’s mission to inspire young people and create quality performances for all ages, the theater says.
Since its start in 1926, Orlando Family Stage has evolved while aiming to stay true to that message. In its 100-year life, the theater has developed original works, launched arts-learning programs, founded a youth academy and has stood as Florida’s only professional theater for young audiences for 20 years.
To preserve the archival materials, Orlando Family Stage has partnered with the University of Central Florida’s history department to add prominent artifacts to the RICHES Mosaic Interface, a digital database for Central Florida history.
Whether patrons know the theater as the Orlando Family Stage or one of its past iterations, the evening invites them to honor the historic Central Florida fixture.
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