Key City Public Theatre | Port Townsend's Community Theatre

About Key City Public Theatre

Key City Public Theatre is your place to meet new friends and explore new worlds.

• Award-winning live performances
• Educational community, family and youth programs
• Year-round programming
• 400+ volunteer opportunities each year

KCPT is Port Townsend and Jefferson County’s premier theatre – Feeding minds and fostering friendships for over 50 years.

We are celebrating our past and building toward our future as we actively work towards our goal of a new theatre facility to better serve our community.

We are funded in part by the Port Townsend Arts Commission, but the majority of our support comes from the annual financial contributions and season subscriptions of local businesses and individuals like you.

Key City Public Theatre is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.

Our 2010 Annual Report (PDF)

Our Mission

Key City Public Theatre fosters artistic expression that entertains, educates and engages our community while developing an accessible and relevant theatre that produces new works, contemporary plays and innovative interpretations of classics that captivate, challenge, and celebrate our audiences and artists.

Read more about how KCPT enriches our community.

About our community -- Port Townsend

Key City Public Theatre is located in the heart of beautiful Port Townsend, Washington, the Olympic Peninsula’s Victorian Seaport and Arts Community. Key City Playhouse is located in the heart of the historic downtown district, adjacent to Point Hudson Marina and within walking distance of dozens of fine restaurants and many charming inns, hotels and bed-and-breakfast accommodations.

Our theatre adds to a vibrant local arts scene of renowned visual artists and galleries, musicians, filmmakers, writers and poets. Over 8,000 residents and visitors throughout the Puget Sound region enjoy KCPT’s performances and programs each year. Read more about how KCPT enriches our community.

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Artistic Director

In 2005, Key City Players hired Denise Winter as Artistic Director, bringing an end to our long all-volunteer history and ushering in a new era of professionalism.

Denise Winter brings 20 years of professional theatre experience to KCPT. Before arriving in Port Townsend, she served on the artistic staff of six Tony Award-winning regional theatres and performed in 48 states, plus Canada and China, with companies such as the New York City Opera, The Children’s Theatre Company and American Repertory Theatre, along with Radio City Entertainment's Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes.

At KCPT, Denise directed the Northwest premieres of Constance Congdon's "So Far:The Children of the Elvi," and Gip Hoppe's "A New War." She most recently directed and workshopped Wendy MacLeod's new play "Birnham Woods" and directed KCPT's Shakespeare in the Park productions of "The Comedy of Errors" and "As You Like It." Denise received her BA in drama and literature from Kenyon College.

A message from Artistic Director Denise Winter

When you subscribe to Key City Public Theatre’s
season, you do more than guarantee your
seat at every mainstage performance. You express
your support for quality theatre created for and
by your community. You embrace our vision of an
artistic forum that offers the stimulating community
dialogue and exhilarating entertainment that only
live theatre can provide. This season we continue
our commitment to artistic excellence. Please join us

for your next great escape during Key City

Public Theatre’s 2010 season.

See you at the theatre!

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