Patrick Lathrop directs the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach.

While holiday productions are in the works, North Coast theater groups have announced their seasons for 2025.

“Family” is the theme at the Ten Fifteen Theater in downtown Astoria. The year will begin with three one-act plays in late January.

“Marjorie Prime,” a play about an elderly woman who questions artificial intelligence, follows in March and April. Astoria theater stalwart Marco Davis will present “Again! The Art of Perfection,” an autobiographical musical, in June.

August’s show is “For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday,” a family-focused retrospective. A new comedy, “The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals,” will be staged in October. The season concludes with “Holidazed: A Spectravagasm Christmas,” an “irreverent comedy” written by director Sam Dinkowitz.

The storefront theater is raising funds to pay for a new $30,000 stage lighting system. It received a $10,000 grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust toward the project. By mid-October, it was $6,000 away from reaching the goal.

“Most of our audience members don’t realize how antiquated our current lighting instruments are — each performance we’re crossing our fingers and toes that a bulb doesn’t burn out, or a dimmer pack doesn’t overload,” said Danyelle Tinker, executive artistic director. “The new LEDs will alleviate those worries, and provide a much wider range of artistic capabilities to our lighting designs. It’s really going to be a game-changer for us.”

Comedies

In Cannon Beach, Patrick Lathrop, the Coaster Theatre’s executive director, is excited about a season that leans toward comedy. “Our six-show 2025 season will include an Edgar Allan Poe mystery, an egomaniacal playwright, some really nice Norwegian hit men, a disappearing Elvis, a hilarious vampire and a repentant Tiny Tim,” he said.

The season opens with “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” written by Astoria-based theater director Mick Alderman. The original play, modeled on an Edgar Allan Poe story, was performed at the River Theater in Astoria in 2005. It will be staged Feb. 7 to March 1.

“Play On!” a comedy, follows March 21 to April 26 then a darker comedy, “The Norwegians,” which will run May 16 to June 7.

“Elvis Has Left The Building,” another comedy, is planned July 5 to Aug. 9. The season concludes with a farce, “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,” Aug. 29 to Oct. 11, and a Christmas show, “A Carol for Tiny Tim,” Nov. 21 to Dec. 21.

Not ready

Two Long Beach Peninsula groups said their boards are still working on the specifics of their 2025 activities.

The Peninsula Association of Performing Artists, which stages shows at Fort Columbia State Park in Chinook, Washington, will host a production of the World War II pen pal romance “Dear Jack, Dear Louise” in February. The show was postponed from October.

Leaders have not yet announced its summer musical, which usually has a five-weekend run beginning the weekend after the Fourth of July.

The Peninsula Players, whose members perform at a theater in downtown Ilwaco, plan a spring musical, likely running March 28 through April 13, and a family-friendly comedy during the summer.

‘Clue’

In northern Tillamook County, the Riverbend Players, who perform at the North County Recreation District theater in Nehalem, will stage “The Mirror Crack’d” by Agatha Christie in March, “Sordid Lives,” a play about family difficulties, in June, a live radio play version of H.G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man” in September and a “Christmas Movie Wonderthon” in December.

Rising Tide Productions, which staged “Agnes of God” in 2023, plans a show at the Nehalem theater in mid to late August.

The Tillamook Association for the Performing Arts, which hosts productions at its theater in the former Barn Tavern in Tillamook, has announced its shows. They include two comedies about generational relationships, “Things My Mother Taught Me” in February and March and “Over the River and Through The Woods” in May. The 2025 season concludes with the murder-mystery farce “Clue,” on dates to be announced. All shows run three weekends.