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Starkville Community Theatre's 2017-2018 Season
Join us as we celebrate our 40th Season
Arsenic and Old Lace
By Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Karen Thead
September 5-10 and September 12-14, 2017
Please note special dates.
This classic dark comedy features two charming older ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of “acceptable” roomers at their house; their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; the questionable activities of their monstrous nephew and his shady lackey; and the other nephew trying to keep his sanity amid all the madness.
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Christopher Sergel and Harper Lee
Directed by Michele Crescenzo
November 9-10, 12 and November 14-19, 2017
Please note special dates.
In this classic Southern drama, wide-eyed young girl Scout Finch is about to experience tumultuous events that will affect the rest of her life. She and her brother Jem are being raised by their widowed father Atticus, a lawyer, and by strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Scout is fascinated with the people of her small Southern town, but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface of life there.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
By Steve Martin
Directed by Sean Dyess
February 8-11 and February 13-17, 2018
What if Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso met at a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism? Steve Martin plays fast and loose with fact and fame as these two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects with infectious dizziness. Bystanders include Picasso's agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso's date, and a final surprise patron - a charismatic dark-haired singer time-warped in from a later era.
The Drowsy Chaperone
By Bob Martin and Don McKellar
Directed by Paula Mabry
April 5-8 and April 10-14, 2017
With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of fictitious 1928 musical "The Drowsy Chaperone". The recording comes to life as the man in the chair watches along, interjecting his own thoughts throughout the story of two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone. Mixed together, you have all the ingredients for a madcap, musical-comedy delight.
Season Extra - The Laramie Project
By Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Angella Baker and Gabe Smith
May 15-May 19, 2018
In October 1998, a 21 year-old student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died less than a week later. This shattering drama was written from the text of more than 200 interviews conducted in the aftermath of a brutal hate crime that attracted worldwide attention and shined a public spotlight on issues of sexual discrimination and violence.