Guess Who’s Coming to the Arts Center this month?

Many of us have fond memories of the 1967 film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” with William Rose’s screenplay directed by Stanley Kramer. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, it captured two, one for Katharine Hepburn as Best Actress in a Leading Role, and one for Best Original Screenplay. It was Hepburn’s final film playing opposite her beloved Spencer Tracy, and it, of course, provided a stellar showcase for the inimitable talents of the late, great Sidney Poitier.

A common source for a film is a play, but in this case, it took years before the iconic film was given new life in this stage adaptation, written by Todd Kreidler with its first reading in 2007.

Kreidler’s own resume includes having worked with August Wilson on Broadway to develop the final three plays in Wilson’s famed American Century Cycle. Together they conceived “How I Learned What I Learned,” and Kreidler is also a co-founder of the August Wilson Monologue Competition.

On Broadway, Kreidler worked with director Kenny Leon to develop a musical fable based on the lyrics of Tupac Shakur entitled “Holler If Ya Hear Me.” Additionally, Kreidler was the dramaturg on August Wil- son’s “Radio Golf” and “Gem of the Ocean,” as well as associate director of the Tony Award-winning revival of “Fences,” starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis.

The plot of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” revolves around a white couple’s proud liberal sensibilities being put to the test when their daughter brings her Black fiancé home to meet them.

Blindsided by their daughter’s whirlwind romance, Matt and Christina Drayton are faced with the realization that there could be a difference between supporting a mixedrace couple in your newspaper and having one in your own family.

They’re surprised to find they aren’t the only ones with concerns, and it’s not long before a multi-family clash of racial and generational differences sweep across the Draytons’ idyllic San Francisco terrace.

Fresh, humorous, and relevant, this is a reflection on two families, each confronted by their own internalized prejudices.

The Arts Center is excited to produce this witty and insightful work, directed by Patdro Harris, who recently directed “In the Heights” here, onstage Feb. 1-19.

For more information and tickets, visit artshhi.com or call the box office at 843-8422787.