Sussex County - Summer will soon be here and with the warm weather comes the 2006 season of “Thursdays on the Green” at Sussex County Community College. This year’s season kicks off on Thursday, June 8, with a production of “Romeo and Juliet” performed by Shakespeare LIVE!, the acclaimed educational touring wing of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. The production will be held in the Lakeland Bank Pavilion on the Connor Green beginning at 6:45 p.m. The performance is free and the public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be available for purchase and chairs will be provided for the event. The servants of the Capulets and the Montagues, two feuding households both alike in dignity in fair Verona, are brawling in the streets. Young Romeo Montague is lovesick over a young woman named Rosalind while Juliet Capulet is being considered as a bride for the noble Paris. At a masked ball held at the house of the Capulets, Romeo and Juliet meet and instantly fall in love. But the enmity of their fathers makes this a star-crossed love from the onset. Romeo and Juliet is undoubtedly the most famous love story in Western Literature. The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is one of 22 professional theatres in the state. One of the leading Shakespeare theatres in the nation, serving nearly 100,000 adults and children annually, it is New Jersey’s only professional theatre company dedicated to Shakespeare’s canon and other classic masterworks. Through its productions and education programs, the company strives to illuminate the universal and lasting relevance of the classics for contemporary audiences. “Thursdays on the Green” will continue throughout the summer with an assortment of music and entertainment. The schedule for 2006 is: June 15 - Patrick Fitzsimmons (Folk-Rock) June 22 - Joanna Mell with Alison Gillespie (Celtic Music) June 29 - The Christopher Dean Band (Blues/Soul) July 6 - Cornerstone Playhouse (Two Full-Length One Act Plays) July 13 - The Dixie Devils (Dixieland Music) July 20 - Conjunto Imagen (Salsa Music) July 27 - The Dirdy Birdies Jug Band August 16 - Trio Globo (Contemporary Acoustic Jazz), Special Thursdays on the Green to Celebrate SCCC’s 25th Anniversary which begins at 6 p.m. Sponsors of “Thursdays on the Green” include: Lakeland Bank, Sussex Bank, van den Heuvel & Fountain, Inc., James Alexander and the Newton Rotary. All of the “Thursdays on the Green” performances are free. Each performance begins at 6:45 p.m. with the exception of the Special Thursdays on the Green on Aug. 16 which will begin at 6 p.m. Refreshments are available for purchase, with proceeds from concession sales benefiting scholarships at the college. For information, call 973-300-2120, or visit www.sussex.edu.