•June 22, 2022•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

Assistant Weekend Editor Susan Klovstad said she thought of me when she saw this in a recent news release:
“In the summer of 1978, two recent college graduates and their high school drama director founded the organization because they wanted to expand the scope of community theater in town by producing plays and musicals that run the gambit from important classics to completely new plays and musicals.”
“Obviously, he means ‘run the gamut,’” Susan told me.
If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you probably remember hearing of or breathlessly streaming “The Queen’s Gambit,” a series about a young female chess player who takes the boys club of players by storm in the 1950s and ’60s.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.