Beginning Thursday, September 1, season tickets for SSCC Theatre’s 2011 – 2012 season will be on sale via the theatre’s website. Tickets for the set of four shows are $15, a savings of up to $9. All major credit cards accepted for on line purchases only. The productions in line for this exciting year are:

Biloxi Blues, by Neil Simon, in which a 20-year-old Eugene Morris Jerome, from Brooklyn, is drafted into the United States Army during World War II. As a young army recruit, Eugene must go through basic training and learn about Life and Love with a capital ‘L’ along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943. Biloxi Blues won Simon a Tony Award for Best Play in 1985. Biloxi Blues plays November 11 – 13.

The Laramie Project, by Moisés Kaufman, brings us a story from October 1998, where a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. The Laramie Project plays March 2 – 4, 2012.

 

An Evening with Durang, is a selection of one-act plays by Christopher Durang that will be performed, which may include: “Naomi in the Living Room,” “Funeral Parlor,” and “DMV Tyrant.” “With the help of Mr. Durang, the fine art of parody has returned to theater in a production you can sink teeth and mind into, while also laughing like an idiot. Parody of this comic verve is as much fun as the sort of marvelous party Noel Coward once sang about. I couldn’t have enjoyed it more.” —NY Times. An Evening with Durang is May 30, 2012

Annie, by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, and Martin Charnin,  is a spunky Depression-era orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and finds a new family and home in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy. Annie runs August 3 – 5, 2012.

To get your season tickets or to learn more about SSCC Theatre please visit www.sscctheatre.com