By Alec Kerr, Special to The Conway Daily Sun
CONWAY — M&D Playhouse is getting witchy, but “Sunrise Coven,” which opened Thursday, April 30, at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse in North Conway with performances Thursday-Sunday through May 10, doesn’t feature hags chanting double double toil or trouble or spell-casting schoolchildren. Instead, this coven blends spiritual magic with modern medicine to try to heal a long-suffering Texas small town.
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