A Bay Area theater is risking it all to buy this historic building

Oakland Theater Project has performed in a rug store, a shoe store, the Oakland Aviation Museum, a church, a mechanic’s shop, a parking lot and under an overpass.

Now the company that for the last eight years has done most of its work in a garage attached to Oakland’s Flax store has a space of its own.

In September, the 14-year-old theater leased 1743 San Pablo Ave., the former home of music venue the New Parish in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. The lease also gives the theater an option to purchase the building, which OTP plans to do by the end of 2027…

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