'Our Town' Comes To Our Town, Valrico

The Village Players returns to the community theater stage with Thornton Wilder's Our Town, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that this year celebrates its 75th anniversary.

The play, as noted, "explores the fictional lives of the Gibbs family, the Webb family and their neighbors in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire early in the 20th century. With quiet wisdom and an almost bare stage, the play captures the richness of ordinary people living ordinary lives."

The opening night, dinner-theater production is scheduled for tonight, Aug. 9, at the James McCabe Theater in Valrico, at 506 Fifth Street, west of Valrico Road and north of State Road 60.

Staged as a building fundraiser, tonight's theater event features "an all-American picnic dinner" sponsored by Chick-fil-A of Lake Brandon Village and the Westfield Brandon mall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and seating is limited to 80 theatergoers. Tickets cost $25.

Call 813-643-8292 for reservations. Or, Video Exchange, at 813-685-1664.

Other show dates are Aug. 10, 16, 17 and 24, at 8 p.m.; also, Aug. 11 and 25, at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $14 for general admission and $12 for senior citizens, students and military, with identification. The cost for groups of 10 or more, with reserved seating: $10.