THE BRIDGEWATER-SOMERVILLE CONNECTION PAGE 13 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2026 theconnectionsnj.com January 16 - February 1, 2026 March 6 - 22, 2026 April 17 - May 3, 2026 Did you know there’s an accessible, award winning community theatre in Hillsborough? If you’re looking for local entertainment, make 2026 the year you check out the Somerset Valley Players! Coming soon at* Somerset Valley Players www.svptheatre.org Made possible by funds from the Somerset County Cultrural & Heritage Commission, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. *Shows & Performance Dates Subject to Change* A man who asks to audition at a small theater is mistaken for an informer for the National Endowment for the Arts. Everyone caters to the bewildered wannabe actor, and he is given a role in the current production, A Christmas Carol. Everything goes wrong and hilarity is piled upon hilarity. Accusations, mistaken identities, and romances run wild in this traditional, laugh-out-loud farce. Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent’s doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancees, are hot on their trail. They go undercover as a nun and priest, but their presence, combined with the addition of a new nun, spurs paranoia throughout the convent that spies have been sent from Rome to shut them down. Wine and secrets are inevitably spilled as everyone tries to preserve the convent and reconnect with lost loves. The play tells the story of a young man’s decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging ’60s lifestyle. Buddy is a 21-year-old virgin and his older brother Alan is a ladies’ man. Alan lives in an apartment in the East Sixties, New York City. As the play progresses, Alan discovers feelings for one of the many women with whom he is sleeping, and when she leaves him, he falls apart. This juxtaposes Alan’s hunger for companionship with Buddy’s metamorphosis into a ladies’ man. The playwright points out the fundamental spiritual and emotional emptiness of the playboy lifestyle for which the younger sibling desperately yearns. For tickets or directions to the theatre visit:
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