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The Peterborough Players shared a close relationship with playwright Thornton Wilder in his life.The setting for his most well-known play “Our Town” was inspired by the people and places of Peterborough and other Monadnock Region towns. Wilder also...

The Off-Broadway company will also offer a free stream of its 2018 production of Hindle Wakes.

It was her Peterborough Players’ debut, but when Aliah Whitmore took to the stage in “Mahida’s Extra Key To Heaven” last week it was as a third generation Peterborough Player.The daughter and granddaughter of actors James Whitmore Jr. and James...

Broadway has come to the Peterborough Players this summer with the comedic musical “She Loves Me,” directed by Players’ artistic director Gus Kaikkonen and starring Tom Frey and Rebecca Brinkley as the two accidental lovers Georg Nowack and Amalia...

Tom Frey credits the Peterborough Players with giving him new opportunities that brought his career to new heights. From portraying parts that were outside of his comfort zone to directing shows he’d never done before.Now the Players is giving Frey...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 3/13/2021 9:44:01 AM Lisa Bostnar still gets butterflies when the curtain opens and the lights get bright. But not the nervous fluttering kind, more like an excited anticipation of performing in front of an audience, there to capture her every move on stage. Since moving to New York City in 1986, acting has not only been Bostnar’s career, but it has fulfilled a passion for creativity and imagination that really began as a child playing in the backwoods o...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 2/12/2021 10:35:22 AM Love has been documented through the arts since the very beginning – through stories of feeling, passionate songs and carefully crafted tales. Each one sparks a series of emotions and it’s hard not to get a little chocked up when those all time classics are revisited. Sunday is the biggest day of love of the year, but Valentine’s Day 2021 will be a little different given where things stand in the world. Doing some of the norma...

Mint Theater Company will continue its Silver Lining Streaming Series with the on-demand streaming of the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, directed by Jonathan Bank, beginning FEBRUARY 1st and continuing through MARCH 28th The price of admission is FREE. To receive a password, visit MintTheater.org. Days To Come by Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Toys in the Attic, The Childrens Hour), directed by J.R. Sullivan, continues thr...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 12/23/2020 3:39:12 PM For more than half his professional life, Gus Kaikkonen has called the Peterborough Players his artistic home. It’s where the longtime artistic director has worked with legendary actors and helped mentor others just cutting their teeth in the theater business. He has helped plan and arrange more than two decades of summer seasons and over the previous four years, done the same for a shortened winter lineup. Add it all up and Kaikkon...