Arts & Leisure
‘Between the Sheets’ brings Wharton’s heart and genius to the stage

Edith Wharton’s mid-life romance takes center stage in “Wharton Between the Sheets,” a witty and provocative new play making its Vermont premiere at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater, May 8-18.
Photo / David Devine
April 24, 2025
“Wharton Between the Sheets” takes us to Paris in 1908 and brings together novelist Edith Wharton, her dear friend Henry James, her lover Morton Fullerton and her Irish lady’s maid in an eyebrow-raising retelling of Wharton’s actual mid-life romance.
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