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opportunities to see live performances close to home with both community and professional productions of comedies, tragedies, musicals, dramas, classics, and new works.
Good food, good theater, and a gorgeous setting – a blissful combination for a summer evening.
Unadilla Theatre in Marshfield, QuarryWorks Theater in Adamant, and Phantom Theater in Warren all invite audiences to arrive early, bring picnics, and dine alfresco before the show. The joys of long days and evening entertainments come together by picnicking in the glorious settings of these three Central Vermont theaters. Back in 1983, on opening night of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, the cast of the very first Unadilla Theatre production wondered whether audiences would really come to see them perform in a sheep barn five miles out on a dirt road in Marshfield. But as curtain time approached, Bill Blachly, founder and director of the company, recalls, “We looked out and here was a line of cars coming our way.” More than three decades later, audiences still enthusiastically make the trek. Those who come early savor preshow picnics in the gardens at Unadilla’s two theaters. The gardens are framed with blossoming perennials, a beech www.bestofcentralvt.com
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