Enfield-Based Performing Group To Receive CT Humanities Grant

ENFIELD, CT — A total of 624 statewide grants worth $16 million have been allocated to Connecticut non-profit museums and cultural, humanities and arts organizations, including one in Enfield. The distribution is part of $30.7 million in grants allocated by the state legislature to Connecticut Humanities over the next two years.

Grants range from $5,000 to $500,000 to any organization offering cultural, humanities and arts-based projects and activities for the public. The Opera House Players Inc. are earmarked to receive $10,400 through the program.

Founded in 1968 as the St. Martha Players, the Opera House Players is one of the oldest groups in the area which performs exclusively musical theatre. After moving to Broad Brook in 2003 and changing its name to the Opera House Players, the group returned to Enfield in 2018, in its 50th anniversary year, and moved into the former United Presbyterian Church building at 100 High Street.

Enfield is also receiving a $1.5 million grant, approved by the State Bond Commission on Dec. 21, for the Opera House Players to convert the High Street building into a performing arts facility.