Open Circle Theater—born in 1992 and best known in its latter years for adaptations and new works based on the New England horror-writer H.P. Lovecraft—has closed. You heard it here last. (Sorry, I was out of town for a few days.)

Open Circle was Seattle's longtime incubator for weird stuff: High Kindergarten Performance Group (which is rumored to have a reunion in the works), "Awesome," and all those H.P. Lovecraft adaptations.

Some of its members are regrouping under the name The Schoolyard and will remount OCT's performance of The Rocky Horror Show at Re-bar later this month.