Sammie Joe Kinnett, seen here in Colorado Springs Theatrworks’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ will star in ‘The SantaLand Diaries.’

Colorado Springs TheatreWorks has announced its first season since the death of founder Murray Ross (pictured right) in January. The 2017-18 season will be presented in honor of Ross:

• Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare (July 27-Aug. 19 at Rock Ledge Ranch)
• Heisenberg, by Simon Stephens (Sept. 7-24 at the Bon Vivant Theatre)
• Wild Honey, by Michael Frayn, adapted from “The Play Without a Title” by Anton Chekhov (Oct. 19-Nov.  5 at the Bon Vivant Theatre)
• The SantaLand Diaries, by Joe Mantello, adapted from David Sedaris (Nov. 30-Dec. 23, starring Sammie Joe Kinnett at the Bon Vivant Theatre)

The following will be presented at the new Ent Center for the Arts at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs:

• Oklahoma! by Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers (Feb. 15-March 11, 2018)
• Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer (April 26-May 13, 2018)

Our tribute to Murray Ross: He put goodness out into this world’

• Trouble in Tahiti, by Leonard Bernstein (Feb. 22-March 4, 2018)
• Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen (April 5-15, 2018)

For more information, visit theatreworkscs.org or call 719-255-3232

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