New Stage Players' Dramatic Reading Series

The New Stage Players invite the community for a creative social & dramatic reading of acclaimed play, Middletown, by Will Eno read by local actors.  With Middletown, Will Eno provides us a contemporary retelling of the beloved 1938 play Our Town (by Thorton Wilder (set in 1901), bringing forward themes of Daily Life, Love & Marriage, and Death & Eternity, creating a funny, whimsical and etheral theatrical journey for 21st century audiences.  We welcome discussion to hear  thoughts, impressions, questions, and compare the two plays as desired.

The New Stage Players presents

In a Dramatic Reading

May 9, 2025 @ 7pm

Grange Hall Cultural Center

317 Howard Avenue, Waterbury Center, VT 05677

Free & Open to the Public

Will Eno is best known for his play, Thom Paine (based on nothing), which received a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, and has earned numerous prestigious awards for his dramatic writing.   Middletown garnered Will Eno the 2010 Horton Foote Award for Promising New Play when it was performed Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater in NYC that same year.  

The New Stage Players is offering this reading series as a way to inform, engage, and discuss dramatic writing possibilities for production by this new community theater company in Waterbury.  Please support local theater (and beyond) all throughout the year, and feel free to make suggestions on future readings!  

New Stage Players is committed to developing theater makers in our community, and telling stimulating stories of new and reimagined work thatis inclusive, entertaining, and resonates with audiences in an intimate theatrical setting. 

Sponsored by:

Across Roads Center for the Arts & Grange Hall Cultural Center