‘Radium Girls’ illuminates Footlighters stage
Footlighters presenting ‘Radium Girls’
The Walpole Footlighters are in the midst of preparing the second show of their 2017-2018 season, “Radium Girls” by D.W. Gregory. The powerful play, based on true events, is set in the early part of the twentieth century and centers on ideas still timely today, such as women’s equality, scientific progress and its effect on...
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Medfield Library celebrates centennial
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By Laura Drinan
Hometown Weekly Reporter
The Medfield community gathered on October 1 for a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. Over one hundred years ago, a man named Granville Dailey, a New York City native who summered in Medfield, contacted William G. Perry, an architect, to draw up the plans for a library in town. Soon after, the...
Walpole Footlighters ‘Lost in Yonkers’
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By Geena Matuson
Hometown Weekly Staff
Quite a drama is taking place at Walpole Footlighters Playhouse, where the company is presenting Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” now through May 21.
The 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around a small family living in 1942 Yonkers, New York - three generations of deceit and misguided family values...
Footlighters presenting ‘Lost in Yonkers’
The Walpole Footlighters are getting ready for their spring show at their Playhouse on Scout Rd. in East Walpole, where they are rehearsing “Lost in Yonkers.” This Neil Simon classic Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama will be performed weekends from May 5 to May 21. This is the third production of the Walpole Footlighters 2016-2017 season, their...
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