On-Demand encore of A Valentine's Day Reading of A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED and THE OPEN DOOR Cast

The Park Theatre first opened in Jaffrey in 1922 and was the center of community life as a movie and vaudeville house for 54 years until it closed in 1976. Purchased by The Park Theatre in 2006, it is being rebuilt as a state-of-the-art film and performing arts center, featuring two auditoriums seating 450, presenting movies, live theatre, including children’s productions, concerts, and lectures as well as offering a place for business and community gatherings for the Monadnock Region and its 100,000 residents, school districts and dynamic artistic community. The new theatre complex began construction in January 2019 and was completed in 2020. theparktheatre.org

Gus made his Broadway acting debut in the original cast of EQUUS. Other NY credits include Tommy Tune’s American premiere of CLOUD 9, and THE COUNTRY GIRL with Hal Holbrook. He has acted in A DAY BY THE SEA, MARY BROOME and HOUSE OF MIRTH at the Mint Theater. On television he co-starred in the PBS production of Willa Cather’s PAUL’S CASE with Eric Roberts, has appeared on Law & Order SVU and Criminal Intent, and has had continuing roles on ABC’s ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE. He has performed at the Long Wharf, Folger, Goodman, Asolo, GeVa, Arden, American Heartland, Aspen, and BoarsHead Theatres, and the Coconut Grove Playhouse, where he was nominated for a Carbonell Award by the Southeastern Theatre Critics Association. He received Vermont’s 2000 Bessie Award Best Actor for RICHARD III at the Lost Nation Theatre. He is a member of SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, & the Dramatists Guild. From 1996 to 2021, Mr. Kaikkonen was the Artistic Director of the Peterborough Players.

Alfred Sutro (1863–1933), was an acclaimed English playwright. The son of a German physician and grandson of a rabbi, Sutro was educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, and became a successful wholesale merchant. After his marriage – his wife was a sister of the first Marquess of Reading – he devoted himself exclusively to writing. He made his reputation in 1904 with a social comedy, The Walls of Jericho, which was followed during the next quarter century by many other West End stage successes, generally on stock themes but always written with wit and polish. His acclaimed plays include The Fascinating Mr. Vanderveldt (1906), The Perplexed Husband (1913), The Desperate Lovers (1927), and Living Together (1929). Sutro was a friend of many noted writers of his day, including George Bernard Shaw and D.H. Lawrence. Many of his plays were regularly produced on Broadway.