Village Playhouse centre of its own drama

May 27, 2016

Last week’s press release from Bancroft Summer Theatre has triggered enough storylines to make a play of its own. Despite talking to over half a dozen people from all aspects of the dispute, there isn’t much that can be said definitively about what was done to whom. However, two central facts appear firm: there will be some theatre at the Bancroft Village Playhouse this summer; and, it won’t be local, “community” theatre.

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