THE STING Opens at Maverick Theater Tomorrow, 5/31

The Maverick Theater presents the stage version of David Ward's Academy Award-winning film The Sting. The Maverick has staged over 35 screenplays in the past 10 years, but this large-scale production of The Sting is its biggest yet, as the Maverick uses both of its stages to create the underworld of the 1930s con-man.

Directed by Brian Newell, The Sting opens May 31st and runs through July 14th. Performances are 8:00 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 5:00 p.m. Sun, starting June 8 th. Tickets are $20.00 general, $10.00 for students with a current I.D. Tickets may be purchased online at www.mavericktheater.com or by calling 714-526-7070. The Maverick Theater is located at 110 E. Walnut, Fullerton, CA 92832, across from the Amtrak station in historic Downtown Fullerton.

The popular 1973 film, directed by George Roy Hill, re-introduced the public to ragtime music and helped make ragtime composer Scott Joplin a household name. To punctuate the action, humor, and drama in the Maverick's production, director Brian Newell uses the late Marvin Hamlisch's Academy Award-winning score, which is comprised of some of Joplin's most popular syncopated masterpieces.

The Sting is about Johnny Hooker, a small-time grifter who unknowingly steals from Doyle Lonnegan, a big-time Chicago crime boss, when he pulls a standard street con. Lonnegan demands satisfaction for the crime. After Hooker's partner, Luther, is killed, Hooker flees, and seeks help from Henry Gondorff, a master of the big con. To get revenge for Luther's murder, they devise a complicated scheme and amass a talented group of other con artists to take Lonnegan for an enormous sum of money in a big con known as "the sting." The stakes are high in this game, and the pair must not only deal with Lonnegan's murderous tendencies, but also other side players who want a piece of the action.

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