Local actors, musicians back on stage this fall

Talented regional actors in a Hingham Civic Music Theatre upcoming production were forced to wait two years for their prompts to shoot craps on city streets, dance at the Hot Box Club, and pitch a little woo. The regional theater will stage its fourth and final production of “Guys and Dolls,” a recognized classic of the American musical theater, at the Sanborn Auditorium stage in Hingham Town Hall at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6. Like so many other planned live performance productions, the show was put on hold when COVID turned all theaters dark in 2020.

Many more opportunities for live entertainment and other public programs present themselves this month in the first full fall schedule of live events since the onset of the pandemic. Also on Nov. 6, at 3 p.m., Milton Community Concerts, a series offering classical performances in the town’s First Parish Meetinghouse, presents “Sharing Ourselves, Reuniting Our Voices: Music by Carol Koffinke,” at the church at 535 Canton Ave.

Fall craft fairs are underway as well. In Plymouth, the artists and crafters of the Great Island Artisans’ Guild, based in The Pinehills, holds its “Holiday Arts” fair indoors at the Great Island Overlook Clubhouse, located at 149 Great Island Road. on Saturday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Regional museums are also opening their doors to new exhibits. Through Dec. 10, Hull Lifesaving Museum presents “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” an exhibit produced in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street Initiative.

The region’s public libraries are back to offering full slates of public programs, generally free. Kingston Public Library this month will be exhibiting realistic, Impressionist and abstract work by artist Anita Uhlan in the library’s art gallery.

The Hull Artists’ exhibit, “Our Captivating South Shore,” will be on display in the Hingham Public Library’s Dolphin Gallery through Dec. 1.