NEW COMEDY: Bucks County, Pa., life is played for laughs onstage as the ActorsNET co-produces “Reckonings in New Hope” with the newly emerging New Hope Repertory Theater. It opens on January 28 for a three-weekend run.

Reckonings in New Hope by Emmy-winning writer Christopher Canaan bows on ActorsNET’s Heritage Center stage in Morrisville, Pa. on January 28 for a three-weekend run.

The play is described as a serio-comic tale of three childhood friends who reunite at the allegedly most haunted inn in Bucks County for their 50th high school reunion. Each man is dealing with life-altering situations while committing to buy and save the inn from outside developers. Canaan, Joey Perillo, and George Hartpence co-star.

“ActorsNET has presented two of Mr. Canaan’s other plays in previous seasons, The Big Bad Wolf: An Adult Fairy Tale about Fear, Forgiveness and Sexual Identity and Sprinkles & Glaze. Both were very successful projects,” said ActorsNET Artistic Director Cheryl Doyle. “This show was a perfect opportunity to again collaborate with Chris, who is also the artistic director of New Hope Rep, to bring another new Bucks County romp to our stage.”

Reckonings in New Hope premieres on the ActorsNET stage January 28 and runs weekends through February 13. Show times are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. The Heritage Center Theatre is located at 635 North Delmorr Avenue (Route 32), Morrisville, Pa. Tickets are $24 for adults, $20 for seniors and students, and $12 for children age 12 and under. Visit actorsnetbucks.org to reserve.

Audience members are asked to produce proof of vaccination (or a negative COVID-19 test within 36 hours of the performance) prior to admittance and to wear masks at all times while in the theater. Audience seating will be spaced out between parties at all performances. The theater has a state-of-the-art ActivePure continuous air and surface cleaning system in place which runs continuously, and the facility is deep cleaned and disinfected between performances.