Woodland Theatre was built in 1940 as a movie theater. It was later modified into a combined Volkswagen dealership and motion picture theatre. In January of 1975 a local group of fine artists bought the somewhat-neglected building for $11,000 and renamed it the Old Mission Art Galleries,  intending to use it as a community events center for arts, crafts, teaching, sales, exhibits, and performances. As part of Kettle Falls' Town and Country Days, on May 28 of 1976 (the bicentennial year), OMAG sponsored the "Old Mission Players" staging of their first full production He Ain't Done Right by Nell, followed on the 29th and 30th by a patriotic concert by the Panorama Land Singers. In 1978 the "Old Mission Chamber Orchestra", again sponsored by OMAG, gave its inaugural concert there. In 1988 the theatre was gifted to Woodland Community Concerts, the precursor to today's Woodland Productions. Today Woodland Productions has been very faithful to maintaining the building and keeping community arts alive by providing an outlet for local performers to participate in plays, musicals, choir and instrumental performances.

Click here to see a slideshow of the Theatre over the years

The Woodland Board meets the
second or third Tuesday of the month at 5:30,
usually at the Theatre

---

A quirky piece of  Theatre history from Sean Taboloff