“Hallelujah Girls” Presented by Orcutt Community Theater

        The Orcutt Community Theater begins a three-weekend run on Friday, August 14 through Sunday, August 30 with the comedy, The Hallelujah Girls, a play by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, collectively known as Jones Hope Wooten.  Jessie Jones co-authored the classic, Southern-fried funeral comedy Dearly Departed and its feature film adaptation, Kingdom Come, which was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Nicholas Hope, an award-winning playwright, served as Director of Casting at Theatre Communications Group in New York City, The Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and ABC Television. Jamie Wooten was a writer/producer on the much-loved television series The Golden Girls.

        The comedy brings together a group of women in a town in Georgia who decide life is too short to sit around waiting and gather to “take their lives back.”  

        Performances are at the Oasis Center, 420 Soares, Old Town Orcutt.  Tickets are priced at $20 at 805tx.com or at the door. Friday and Saturdays are at 7 PM; Sundays 4 PM.