SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV - You may have seen it on bookshelves or the big screen, but now "Tuesdays With Morrie" is coming to the community stage.

This summer's production of the popular true story marks a major success for Full Circle Theater Company in Shepherdstown, it's the first community theater in the country to receive rights to perform it.

"We have to apply for the rights and initially they weren't available to us, they were not available to community/amateur theaters. And we just persuaded and persuaded them relentlessly and they finally caved in I think," says Robin Depietro-Jurand, founder of Full Circle Theater.

The play is a moving tale about a college professor named Morrie Schwartz and his student Mitch Albom who hears that his mentor is dying.

"He hears about Morrie and Morrie's illness ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, on Nightline and it inspires him to call Morrie to just initially check on him to see how he's doing. he ends up going for a visit and he ends up visiting every Tuesday until Morrie passes away," says Depietro-Jurand.

"It's a play about what's really important in life and there are probably things a lot of us have thought of before, but to just be powerfully reminded of what is important in life and what's not," says Bill Taylor, the actor who plays Mitch Albom.

Taylor says his character was a challenge.

"It's a wonderful challenge for an actor to really embody somebody who changes that much, who really stops to think about his life and becomes a much better person in the end.

Proceeds from opening night on July 15th will go to benefit hospice of the Panhandle.

The play will run on weekends through July 25th.

Click here to get tickets to the play.