{"id":26965,"date":"2020-12-07T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2020\/12\/07\/loveletters\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:53:53","slug":"loveletters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/12\/07\/loveletters\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Presents Love Letters by A.R. Gurney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2020\/12\/Love-Letters-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23541 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2020\/12\/Love-Letters-Poster-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Northern Essex Community College Top Notch Players will stream a production of \u201cLove Letters\u201d by A.R. Gurney, Dec. 10 through 12.<\/p>\n<p>In this tragic-comedy, childhood friends Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner read communication they have exchanged over a 50-year period, beginning with birthday thank you notes as children and continuing with a lifetime of letters that detail marriages and careers, and dreams and disappointments.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is directed by NECC theater and communication professor, Bri Beatrice, who encourages viewers to \u201cwatch from the comfort of your own home with a cup of cocoa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Available virtually anytime from Thursday, Dec. 10 at midnight until Saturday, Dec. 12 at midnight, the play features Samantha Wheatley of Lowell as Melissa and Stephen Caliskan of Acton as Andrew. The play can be accessed at <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/487879040\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/487879040<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23542\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2020\/12\/Love-Letters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23542\" class=\"wp-image-23542 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2020\/12\/Love-Letters-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samantha Wheatley of Lowell and Stephen Caliskan of Acton star in NECC&#8217;s production of &#8220;Love Letters&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you like what you see, you are invited to Venmo a donation to the NECC Theater Program to @Brianne-Beatrice, naming the donation \u201cLove Letters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Beatrice at <a href=\"mailto:bribeats@gmail.com\">bribeats@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northern Essex Community College has campuses in both Haverhill and Lawrence. It offers\u00a0approximately\u00a060\u00a0associate degree and certificate programs as well as hundreds of noncredit courses designed for personal enrichment and career growth.\u00a0 Each year,\u00a06,000\u00a0students are enrolled in credit associate degree and certificate programs on the Haverhill and Lawrence campuses; and\u00a0another 2,000\u00a0take noncredit workforce development and community education classes on campus, and at businesses and community sites across the Merrimack Valley.\u00a0 For more information, visit the website at\u00a0www.necc.mass.edu\u00a0or call 978-556-3700.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NECC Top Notch Players present &#8220;Love Letters&#8221; Dec. 10-12, virtually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":26967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NECC Presents Love Letters by A.R. 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