Stray Kats Announce Second Season

“In these difficult times, it might seem mad to think about theater as a priority. And yet times like these are precisely why we need it,” says Stray Kats Theatre Company Artistic Director Kate Katcher. “Theater has always been a place where people can turn for hope and inspiration. My mother was born in 1929 to immigrant parents who barely spoke English. Yet, throughout the Great Depression, they always found the time and means to take their family to the theater. It held them together, made them laugh, cry, and reminded them that better times would return.”

It is in this spirit that Ms Katcher recently announced the second season of the Stray Kats Theatre Company. The 2011-12 season of staged readings of contemporary classes and new works by professional casts will open with Truman Capote’s Holiday Memories on Saturday, November 19.

All shows this year will be on Saturday nights, a change from the inaugural season’s Friday evening presentations. They will continue to be presented in The Alexandria Room at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

The season will continue with a new work, Butcher’s Cabin by Kent R. Brown, on January 14; Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Seascape on February 11; Steve Bellwood’s By the Heirs of St Patrick on March 10; Richard Dresser’s Wonderful World on April 28; and The Subject of Roses, Frank D. Gilroy’s 1965 Tony, New York Drama Critics Circle, Pulitzer Prize and 1968 Oscar-winning work, on May 12.

Tickets for each show are $25, but Ms Katcher is offering a preseason subscription offer. Full season orders placed online before November 19 can be purchased for $90. Visit StrayKatsTheatreCompany.org for full details and to order through Pay Pal.

Phone sales will begin October 5; call 203-514-2221 or send e-mail to info@straykatstheatrecompany.org for details.

Stray Kats Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Each reading is followed by a post-play discussion with Ms Katcher and the evening’s featured performers, and tickets include coffee and dessert from Andrea’s Pastry Shop.