Eunice Players’ Theatre returns

By Harlan Kirgan on Monday, May 24, 2021
Theater group restarts its 51st season interrupted by COVID-19
  • Kristi Burleigh, left, and Nathaniel Clark rehearse lines from “Aboveboard,” a play schedule to be staged in June at the Eunice Players’ Theatre. The production is the first for the Eunice Players’ since the theater was shutdown by COVID-19. (LSN photo by Harlan Kirgan)
    Kristi Burleigh, left, and Nathaniel Clark rehearse lines from “Aboveboard,” a play schedule to be staged in June at the Eunice Players’ Theatre. The production is the first for the Eunice Players’ since the theater was shutdown by COVID-19. (LSN photo by Harlan Kirgan)
The Eunice Players’ Theatre is scheduling the first production of its 51st season in June after more than a year of its stage going dark due to the COVID-19 shutdown. The last production of its 50th season was in November 2019, said Gabe Ortego, president of the group that’s been staging shows since 1969. “I’ve been doing theater for 20 years and that was the longest break I’ve ever taken,”…

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