Our Mission is to Create and Celebrate the Arts with the Southcoast Community in an Inclusive Theatre Environment.

To create

We create by finding and telling stories, sometimes big, sometimes small, sometimes entertaining, sometimes transforming, but always by our community and for our community.

and celebrate

We celebrate joyously as part of something greater than ourselves and in ways more wondrous than the transactional. We celebrate by embracing the whole, not merely what we prefer. We celebrate together.

the arts

We believe the arts include theatre, dance, opera, music, visual arts, and so much more! When someone shares their story—connecting strangers together with understanding or experience—they are artists.

with the Southcoast community

Our community is rich in unique history, legacy, and culture. The Southcoast community includes everyone who calls this place home. It is not only our audience but also our partners in everything we do.

in an inclusive

We encourage new and old alike. We do not merely tolerate differences; we seek and celebrate them. We are intentionally open, welcoming, and willing to share. We are incomplete without our entire community. We commit to leaving behind any attitudes, actions, preconceptions, traditions, or prejudices that do not serve our whole community.

theatre environment

We are always a team and always learning. We believe in sharing a vision. We thrive with and without limitations. We celebrate long-held conventions of craft, as well as breaking them. We are energized by collaboration and working together.

We envision a future when Your Theatre is known throughout the Southcoast as an enthusiastically welcoming and supportive producer for local performing artists.

Your Theatre will be a place where collaboration, community, and conversation create belonging

—a diverse, safe space where anyone can join together and tell unique stories to entertain, educate, empower, and transform our community from stage to spectator and back again. 

Through Steeple Playhouse, we envision thriving partnerships with local groups, enabling us all to create and celebrate art with more of our community.

We look forward to a time when Steeple Playhouse is a thriving, community-focused performing arts center that professionally equips a diverse array of producers to present accessible and beneficial events

—becoming a place where every week of the year, you can see our community creating and celebrating art in ways that make you proud to call the Southcoast home.

We see a future when we are an organization made of engaged members, directors, staff, and volunteers who reflect our community’s diverse cultures and experiences. As we strive to represent and reflect our whole community, we will be a place that rejects attitudes, actions, preconceptions, traditions, or prejudices that do not serve our community.

We are committed to becoming a community theatre where it is always apparent that we value both community and theatre.