Tulsa Community College Theatre Department is presenting its first play of the 2025 Spring semester. “Peter and the Star Catcher,” a Tony Award-winning production, is scheduled for Feb. 27-28 and March 1 at 8 p.m., and March 2 at 2 p.m. at the VanTrease PACE Main Stage on the Southeast Campus, 10300 E. 81st St.

From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, “Peter and the Starcatcher” playfully explores the depths of greed and despair… and the bonds of friendship, duty, and love, according to the Playbill publication that announced its production on Broadway.

If you have ever wondered how Peter Pan learned to fly and gained eternal youth, all is revealed in “Peter and the Starcatcher.” The whimsical award-winning Broadway play tells the backstory of not only Peter but also Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys, the villainous Captain Hook, a notorious crocodile, and other figures associated with Neverland.

Based on a 2004 children’s novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, the play centers on a young orphan and his friends who are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training. She is part of a secret society tasked with protecting a magical dust of extraordinary power known as “starstuff.”

A group of pirates led by the fearsome Black Stache – later to become Captain Hook – will sorely test their bravery. The play, which explores ties of friendship, responsibility, and love, is a prequel to the classic Peter Pan stories by Scottish novelist and playwright J.M. Barrie.

The 18-actor ensemble plays about fifty gender-bending roles and occasionally serves as inanimate objects, such as doors and walls. The play is family-friendly.

 For tickets, call (918) 595-7777 or go to https://pacetickets.tulsacc.edu/events