Arts & Leisure

Wharton Between the Sheets (and how Middlebury Acting Company makes new plays happen)

JACOB A. WARE, as Morton Fullerton, and Chris Caswell, as Edith Wharton, rehearse a scene from “Wharton Between the Sheets” at Weybridge Elementary School on Monday, April 28. The Middlebury Acting Company production will take the stage at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater beginning May 8. PHOTO / OLIVER PARINI PHOTOGRAPHY

A key part of Middlebury Acting Company’s mission, under Melissa Lourie’s direction, has always been to find and perform new contemporary work. Their annual New Play Festival, and their series of staged readings, are a good start. But MACo also takes on the creative challenge of producing plays at their next stage of development. “Wharton Between the Sheets,” opening at Town Hall Theater next week, is your chance to watch the magic happen.