Nashville Children's Theatre's new season opens with HOLES on 9/20

Nashville Children's Theatre (NCT) presents the stage adaptation of Louis Sachar's Holes, opening on Tuesday, September 20 and running through October 16.

Based on the popular novel by Louis Sachar, who also wrote the script, Holes tells the tale of young Stanley Yelnats who is sentenced (despite his innocence) to the wasteland of Camp Green Lake. He and his fellow juvenile detainees are forced to dig holes in the hot desert sun day after day after day by the Warden. What is she looking for? And how is the mystery connected to Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" and a long-dead outlaw named Kissing Kate Barlow?

NCT newcomer, Andy Kanies, plays the lead role of Stanley. Other cast members of the large cast include Jon Royal, Shawn Whitsell, Evan Taylor Williams, Ricardo Puerta, Nikkita Staggs, David Compton, Bobby Wyckoff, Rona Carter, Lisa Dunaway and James Rupolph.

Scot Copeland, NCT producing director, will direct the production. Set design is by Mitch Massaro, lighting design is by Scott Leathers, sound design is by Dan Brewer and costume design is by Patricia Taber.

Holes opens with a Preview performance on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 6:30 pm. Tickets for the preview are specially priced at $6/child and $12/adult. Additional public performances are scheduled for 2 pm on Sept 24, Oct 1 and 2, Oct 8 and 9, and Oct 15 and 16. The show is recommended for ages 8 and up.

Pictured: Nikkita Staggs and Andy Kanies