An unusually busy season is on tap for the Queens community theater scene, as troupes gear up to present works by William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller and the songwriting team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, among many others.

Kicking off the season will be City Gate Productions, offering the world premiere of “Guilt,” a new work by Brendan Wallace Downey.

Presented as part of the company’s New Play Development Initiative, the play centers on two small-town police officers (to be played by Bart Peter Black and James Kenna) who are thrust into making life-altering decisions on behalf of two young people (Emilio Picayo and Corrie Burkart), having to face what it means to “protect and serve.”

Erin Layton rounds out the ensemble cast, all under the direction of Jack Tavcar.

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