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Addie Nevitt oversees many things as the head stage manager, but she’s also the co-head of set, the co-head of the run crew, and she lends a hand in costumes and props. In other words, Addie does everything, another student says, so she has a lot going on today.

When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won.

The New Stage Players present a night of comedic storytelling at the historic Grange Hall Cultural Center, 317 Howard Avenue, Waterbury Center, Friday to Sunday, Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-19.

The two-show production of the play “Love Letters” had to be canceled by Stowe Theatre Guild earlier this summer but will now grace the stage at the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29-30, 7:30 p.m. on both nights.

In a matinee, Dr. Russ Longtin performs a series of memorable speeches from great plays — “Amadeus,” “The Glass Menagerie,” “Othello,” “The Lion in Winter,” “Love Letters,” “The Odd Couple” and more, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2 p.m., at Gihon Valley Hall, 5503 Route 100, North Hyde Park.

Circus Smirkus’ 2023 production of “A Midsummer Night’s Circus” is an impressive production featuring thirty circus performers who are all high school students. Even more impressive is that this troupe of youngsters toured throughout the northeast, performing over 60 shows in some 23 “cities” throughout the summer, after a mere three weeks of rehearsals.

A daring work of puppetry and object manipulation, beautiful images, junk music sonatas and Modern Times Theater’s unique brand of all-ages comedy comes to Gihon Valley Hall, 5503 Route 100, North Hyde Park village, on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2 p.m.

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