The Port Aransas Community Theater is ready to cast this summer’s youth production.

Auditions will be held Monday, June 15, and Tuesday, June 16, at 7 p.m. at the Port Aransas Community Theater, 2327 State Hwy. 361.

This year’s play is the melodrama “Shoot out at Darby Wells,” by Nevada Linford and Donna Messersmith. Bill McKinney will direct. The story takes place somewhere in Arizona in the late 1950s, the age of bikers and beatniks.

The cast requires seven female and five male actors. Performance dates are July 31, Aug. 1, 7, 8 and 14-16. Youth of all ages are welcome to audition and to be a part of the production.