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🌱 How Gloucester Stage’s former leader is shaping a major Rhode Island theater

Gloucester, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • How Gloucester Stage’s former leader is shaping a major Rhode Island theater

Also on today's calendar: Reckoners with Kevin James Graham and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why can't dogs make MRI's? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Morning rain, then a t-storm, with a high of 66 and low of 46 degrees.
  • Saturday: Very windy; cooler, temps: high: 51, low: 37.
  • Sunday: Breezy in the morning; sunny, with a high of 53 and low of 45 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Christopher Griffith Hired as Gamm Theatre Executive Director (broadwayworld.com) — A former managing director of Gloucester Stage Company, Christopher Griffith, has been hired as executive director of Rhode Island’s Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, bringing experience that helped strengthen Gloucester’s arts scene and finances. His work in Gloucester included boosting revenue, expanding audiences, and tying the theater more closely to the city’s waterfront identity.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • Old South Church Concerts presents UK's Sarah McQuaid (dailybulldog.com)
  • Déjà Vu on the Debate Stage as 5th Essex Candidates Face Off Again (thecricket.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why can't dogs make MRI's?" — Because catscan! (Thank you Bob F. for sending it in!)
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