Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment:

• The Oakland Center for the Arts will share its future plans for downtown Warren during an open house on Monday.

The theater company, which started in 1987 in Youngstown, has a new home at the former First United Church of Christ, 280 E. Market St. Congregation members voted in 2024 to sell the gold-domed building to the community theater for $1 after the church council decided to dissolve the church due to declining membership.

Attendees will be able to tour the building, enjoy refreshments and learn about its plans to transform the building into a performance space (and the fundraising necessary to do that) as well as some of the productions it plans to stage.

That list includes “Shrek the Musical” and the interactive “Awesome ’80s Prom.” “Shrek,” based on the animated film, received eight Tony nominations during its Broadway run, and it has been a popular show with community, college and school theater programs. Millennial Theatre Company and Kent-Trumbull Summer Stock have staged the all-ages version of the show, which is what the Oakland has planned for its new space. Both Playhouse Youth Theatre and the Oakland’s Kids First Theatre Initiative have staged the “Jr.” version with youth casts.

For “Awesome ’80s Prom,” the audience becomes the attendees at Wanaget High School’s Senior Prom in 1989 and get to interact with familiar character types from the teen movies of that era. The audience also chooses who is crowned prom king and queen. The original New York cast of the show included Liberty native Jenna Pace.

According to the Oakland’s social media, auditions are planned in July.

The open house starts at 5 p.m., and Oakland President and Executive Director Brendan Byers said there is no set ending time for the event. For more information, call 330-406-0606.

• The Robins Theatre in downtown Warren will host a free screening of the comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” on July 10 as part of Ohio Goes to the Movies.

The film series is part of the America250-Ohio celebration, and organizers arranged showings in all 88 Ohio counties of films that have a connection to the state — made here, set here or created by and starring talent from here.

“Mrs. Doubtfire,” of course, was directed by Chris Columbus, who grew up in Champion and graduated from John F. Kennedy High School. In past interviews, Columbus talked about going to see movies at the Robins before it initially closed in the mid ’70s.

The comedy starring Robin Williams, Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan was a huge hit in 1993, grossing more than $440 million worldwide. An IMDb.com list of the top grossing comedies of all time (one that filters out superhero movies like “Deadpool” and sci-fi comedies like ‘Men in Black”) places “Mrs. Doubtfire” at #6. Topping the list is another Columbus film — “Home Alone.”

Columbus has many hit films to pick from, and when this film series was announced last December, the movie originally scheduled at the Robins was “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the first film based on the series of novels by J.K. Rowling. Columbus directed the first two and was a producer on the others.

It’s more than a little funny that a movie based on books by a woman known for her outspoken views opposed to transgender rights was replaced by a movie about a guy who dresses as a woman in order to be close to his estranged family.

Seating is general admission for the 7 p.m. showing. There’s no cost, but tickets are necessary for admission and can be reserved online at robinstheatre.com.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com.