From Broadway to Orcas Center comes “Of Mice and Men” on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee James Franco and Tony Award nominee Chris O’Dowd star in the hit Broadway production “Of Mice and Men,” filmed on stage by National Theatre Live. This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s play is a portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship.

“Of Mice and Men” is directed by Anna D. Shapiro and features Leighton Meester and Jim Norton. This production was nominated for two Tony Awards.

The symbiotic relationship between smart, scrappy George (Franco) and his hulking, brain-damaged friend Lennie (O’Dowd), is at the heart of this 1937 play adapted by Steinbeck from his own novella about the broken, homeless men who wandered the country, living from farm job to farm job, during the Great Depression. As with all the other itinerant workers traveling together on these rough roads, the unlikely friendship between George and Lennie was first forged out of a mutual need for protection.

Tickets for Of Mice and Men are $18, $13 for students, $2 off for Orcas Center members, and may be purchased at www.orcascenter.org or by calling 376-2281 ext. 1 or visiting the Orcas Center Box Office.