Grange Hall Cultural Center

New Stage Players presents:
2025 Comedy Play Fest: An Evening of Comedy
February 7-16, 2-25
Friday & Saturday nights @ 7:30pm
Sundays @ 2pm
Grange Hall Cultural Center, 317 Howard Avenue, Waterbury Center, VT
$20 suggested donations, or pay-as-you-can.
Tickets at: https://sevendaystickets.com/events/new-stage-play-festival-2025
Reservations & information @ 802-244-4168 or info.acrossroads@gmail.com
Seating is limited so please plan ahead if you can.

The New Stage Players invites the community to enjoy local directors and performers in a presentation of a variety of comedic storytelling to lift audience spirits and raise productions funds for this new community theater group, located in Waterbury, Vermont. From a call for new short plays, ten plays of comedy were chosen out of 330 plays that were submitted nationally. The playwrights presented are: Jeanne Beckwith, Donna R. Boyd , Bruce Deveau, Lori Goodman, Amanda Lay, John Minigan, Mark Saunders, David Simpatico, Ken Preuss, and Bill Triplett, representing work from Vermont, all over the United States and Australia.

Local directors Jeanne Beckwith, Louis Bronson, Monica Callan, Paul Cavaliere, Bob Carmody, and Stephanie Seng are heading up these original plays, featuring local actors, Rick Boyle, Dan Comeau, Kohl Comtess, Ramona Godfrey, Ramona Beskin, Jacquelyn Kelleher, David Klein, Clarke Jordan, David Lagala, Evan Lewis, Jennifer McCabe, Dennis McSorley, Fred Patchen, , Cynthia Seckler, Mo Seivwright, Mary Scripps, Augie Stevens, Lila Stratton, Meredith Vaughn, Janice Gohm Webster, and Mary Woodruff performing the roles.

MOXIE Productions presents
"Mauritius" a crime thriller stage play written by Theresa Rebeck , directed by Monica Callan, for a three week run at Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, Vermont, November 8-24, 2024

Featuring: G. Richard Ames, Louis Bronson, Rob Donaldson, Lindsay Repka, and Lila Stratton.

When Jackie and Mary's mother dies after a long illness, leaving behind an inheritance of rare and valuable stamps, the estranged half-sisters reunite to determine the fate of the collection. To Jackie, the stamps represent the only possibility to overcome deep medical debt and her mother's lifetime of bad decisions. To Mary, they offer a chance to hang onto the only happy memory of the difficult childhood that she escaped (leaving Jackie behind to fend for herself). At odds, and in the pursuit to find a suitable buyer, the sisters enter a seedy world of philatelic subterfuge. Cast in a cloak of strategic suspense, this surprisingly comedic thriller is tightly paced with a dark center of deep set histories, both ancient and recent, that make each character choose between the value of what is owed and what is owned, and, ultimately, what to value.

Schedule of events:
November 8-24, 2025
Fridays and Saturday nights @ 7:30pm
Sundays matinees @ 2pm
$20
https://sevendaystickets.com/events/mauritius
Grange Hall Cultural Center
317 Howard Avenue, Waterbury Center, VT
For reservations or more information call 802-244-4168
or email grangehallcc@gmail.com.