OCTOBER 16, 2024 www.wintertexantimes.com 12 WINTER TEXAN TIMES (956)566-1157 STC Theater and Dance announces schedule 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. VA encourages turn-in of unused medications On October 25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System will participate in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Proper disposal of unused drugs saves lives and protects the environment. On October 25, you can safely dispose of unused medications at two Valley locations – Harlingen Health Care Clinic, 2601 Veterans Drive; and McAllen VA Outpatient Clinic, 901 E. Hackberry Ave. You can also drop off in Laredo at Laredo Outpatient Clinic, 4602 N. Bartlett Ave., and in Corpus at Corpus Christi Specialty Clinic, 205 Enterprize Parkway. During National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, all members of the community, not only Veterans, are encouraged to drop off their old, unused, or expired prescription and over-the-counter drugs, including controlled substance prescription medications. In the wrong hands, legal medications can be just as dangerous as street drugs when taken without a prescription or a doctor’s supervision. The non-medical use of prescription drugs is the second-most common form of drug abuse in America. Unused prescription drugs thrown in the trash can be retrieved then abused or illegally sold. If flushed, they can contaminate the water supply. See VA pg. 15
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