# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Live @ Your Library: Reader's Theater performing The Dayporch, Night 2
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 25 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Reader's Theater is back with another amazing performance at the Gaston County Public Library's Carol K. Reinhardt Auditorium! 

Director Eleanor Wixson and her cast of local actors perform a reading of The Dayporch, “a hilarious comedy with a Hitchcock twist."  

Free to the public and no reservations are required.  Light refreshments are provided.  Ideal for adult audiences. 

This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and the Gaston Arts Council. This series also received support from the Friends of the Gaston County Public Library. This program is also brought to you in part by the attendance of patrons like you...Thank You! 

 **All Library Programs are Subject to Change** 

The Dayporch by Ceille Baird Welch 

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, the South Carolina State Hospital on Bull Street in Columbia, South Carolina, bowed down to political correctness. Designated in stone in 1871 as the S.C. Lunatic Asylum, the sign and the old buildings were boarded up. Inpatients were moved to smaller residences in their own communities, and the well-meaning powers-that-were generously called the move TLC - Toward Local Care. 

In the play The Dayporch, three older women are simply moved across campus to a little house, one of several built as temporary homes for the families of resident physicians. Sara Melford, a nurse on her way to retirement, is placed there with them as a housemother of sorts, to care for their souls. 

Enter Steve Grayson, an off-campus chaplain. Or is he? Steve Grayson is an opportunist, a con man come to take advantage, to see what he can get, and his greatest bounty is the hearts of the four hungry women.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/gastonia/live-your-library-readers-theater-performing-the-dayporch-night-2/200030565715749
- **Event Categories**: performances, entertainment, art, theatre, comedy, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 23

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Gastonia
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1555 E Garrison Boulevard, Gastonia, NC, United States, North Carolina 28054
- **lat**: 35.25229
- **long**: -81.15792
- **full address**: 1555 E Garrison Boulevard, Gastonia, NC, United States, North Carolina 28054

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Live @ Your Library: Reader's Theater performing The Dayporch, Night 2 being held?
  - **A:** Live @ Your Library: Reader's Theater performing The Dayporch, Night 2 takes place on Tue, 25 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Tue, 25 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm at 1555 E Garrison Boulevard, Gastonia, NC, United States, North Carolina 28054.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Live @ Your Library: Reader's Theater performing The Dayporch, Night 2?
  - **A:** Live @ Your Library: Reader's Theater performing The Dayporch, Night 2 is organized by Gaston County Public Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Live @ Your Library: Reader's Theater performing The Dayporch, Night 2 is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Gastonia, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Live @ Your Library: Reader's Theater performing The Dayporch, Night 2 sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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