Celebrating 50 Years of Gateway

*This is an in-person event that will also be streamed via Facebook Live*

Sponsored by Friends of Jacob Edwards Library.

The Jacob Edwards Library is pleased to host an exhibit celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Gateway Players Theatre! Memorabilia will be on display throughout the month.

Gateway Players Theatre, Inc. is an all-volunteer community theater providing quality live theatre performances and workshops to Southbridge, Sturbridge, and Charlton, Massachusetts and surrounding areas.

Gateway Players Theatre, Inc. started in 1975, when a group of interested community members decided that Southbridge needed a theater group to bring live productions to the area. First using local schools and borrowed rehearsal and storage space, Gateway moved in 1978, when Ruth Wells (of the American Optical Company Wells family) donated her home on Main Street as a cultural center in Southbridge.

In 2017 after an inspection was done of the barn, we learned that it had become structurally unsound. Gateway Players Theater’s home was no longer at the barn. Elm Street Congregational Church was kind enough to open their hall to the group. They have been utilizing the hall at the church for all of their auditions, rehearsals and performances, with the exception of summer musicals which are performed at Southbridge Middle High School due to the access to air conditioning.

You may also like the following events from Jacob Edwards Library:

• Next Tuesday, 12th August, 11:00 am, Fun with Susan Luna Summer Reading fun activities in Southbridge
• Next Thursday, 14th August, 10:30 pm, Badger & Nault Concert in Southbridge, Massachusetts
• This month, 21st August, 10:15 pm, The French in New England in Southbridge, Massachusetts

Also check out other Arts events in Oranjestad, Theatre events in Oranjestad, Workshops in Oranjestad.