Highland Theater Plans

The Highland Community College theatre department announces its 2021-22 theatre season by producing two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: “Our Town” on Oct. 7, 8, and 9; and “Sweat” on March 10, 11, and 12, 2022. Both productions are performed by Highland students on the Fine Arts Theatre stage in the Ferguson Fine Arts Center, 2998 W. Pearl City Rd., Freeport, Ill.

“Our Town” by Thornton Wilder begins with the simple aspects of the lives of the residents of the mythical small town of Grover’s Corners and ends asking profound questions. “Our Town” examines with humor and sadness the joys and losse...