SSCCTheatre is very pleased to announce their upcoming eleventh theatrical season. This fall, Oscar Wilde’s classic farce The Importance of Being Earnest will kick off the season on November 7 – 9, 2014. The powerfully dramatic, Tony-award winning play, August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts, takes our stage March 27 – 29, 2015. And the season concludes with the hilarious musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin, July 24 – 26, 2015. Season tickets will go on sale this summer. For more information about upcoming productions, past productions, auditions, and more, please visit www.sscctheatre.com.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Oscar Wilde
November 7 – 9, 2014
Oscar Wilde’s classic is a delight from the first cucumber sandwich on as Jack’s double life catches up with him. The problems are resolved in an extremely charming and quite unexpected way as Jack and Algernon discover the importance of being earnest while answering to the name of Ernest.
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
by Tracy Letts
March 27 – 29, 2015
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Mix in Violet, the drugged-up, scathingly acidic matriarch, and you’ve got a major new play that unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
music and lyrics by William Finn
book by Rachel Sheinkin
conceived by Rebecca Feldman
additional material by Jay Reiss
originally directed on broadway by James Lapine
originally produced on broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
July 24 – 26, 2015
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home life, the tweens spell their way through a series of [potentially made-up] words hoping to never hear the soul crushing, pout inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.