STC Theatre & Dance invites the community to join them for another year of fun and quality entertainment. All productions will be held at STC’s Cooper Center for Performing Arts, located at the Pecan Campus, 3200 W. Pecan Blvd. in McAllen.

The season starts on November 7, 2024, with CLUE on stage, written by Sandy Rustin, based on the 1985 Paramount Pictures film by Jonathan Lynn, which was inspired by the classic Hasbro game, six mysterious guests gather for a night of murder and blackmail. When their host turns up dead, Mrs. Peacock, Ms. White, Ms. Scarlett, Professor Plum, Mr. Green and Colonel Mustard must figure out WHO did it, with WHAT and WHERE!

We enter the spring semester, February 20, 2025, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s continuous work in Miss Holmes Returns, where a nurse and activist finds herself on the run, wanted for murder. Pursued by authorities who choose to ignore a clear case of self-defense due to her Indian heritage and influence from sinister figures from the shadowy criminal underworld, she turns to Miss Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Dorothy Watson for help. Miss Holmes Returns is theatrical “fan fiction” that explores specific themes using the characters, settings and tropes created by Doyle to explore the added challenges and risks faced by these iconic characters if they were women.

We continue the season with STC Dance Collective’s Transcendence 2025, running April 26, 2025. This event showcases the talents of the South Texas College Dance Collective which is composed of STC students, community members, and dance professionals from the Rio Grande Valley. Transcendence 2025 is a series of visionary works that explore the human experience through raw physicality and storytelling. The exhilarating fusion of movement, sound, and theatricality brings to life an event that resonates with all audiences. The STC Dance Collective explores the power of their own lived experiences to present dance works that transport its audiences to familiar and not so familiar places and states of mind.

The 2024-2025 season wraps up with STC’s 4th Annual STX New Play Festival scheduled for June 27 and 28, 2025. STXNPF is an opportunity for writers to create and cultivate these stories and share them with everyone.

General Admission tickets for the Main Stage and Black Box Studio productions are $5. The group rate for 10 or more guests is $3. Tickets can either be purchased online using your credit card or on the day of the performance, tickets can be purchased at the box office with cash or check. Cash only at the box office. For group ratings, call the box office or stop by in person during regular school hours.

Ticket sales help fund STC’s productions and their scholarship, Dr. John F. Carroll Drama Scholarship, throughout the year. Community members interested in supporting STC Theatre’s creative venture can do so by sending a donation either for their program or their scholarship at southtexascollege.edu/go/theatre.

For more information about STC Theatre & Dance productions and auditions, call Johanna Leal at (956) 872-2301.