Cockpit in Court -- the summer theater in residence at the Essex campus of the Community College of Baltimore County -- opens its 30th-anniversary season tomorrow with a revival of 1776, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone's musical about the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Todd Starkey directs a cast headed by Dave Shannon as Benjamin Franklin, and husband and wife John and Deborah Desmone as John and Abigail Adams.

Here's the rest of the Cockpit season: Tom Sawyer (July 11-21, Recital Hall, Humanities and Arts Building); a one-man adaptation of Henry V (July 11-21, Studio Theatre, Humanities and Arts); and Mame (July 26-Aug. 4, Mainstage, College Center Theatre).

Show times for 1776 on the Mainstage at Cockpit, 7201 Rossville Blvd., are 8 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday and June 27-29; 7 p.m. June 23, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. June 30. Tickets are $13 and $15. For more information, call 410-780-6369 or visit www.ccbcmd.edu/cockpit.htm.