If you asked Linda MacNish “How did Mac-Haydn get started?”, she would smile and say “Well, it was either start a theatre or drive to Alaska.” After some thought about it, she and co-founder Lynne Haydn opted to try putting on musicals in Chatham, just for one summer. That was in 1969, when The Mac-Haydn Theatre was started on a shoestring, in a cow barn, and went on to prove that the area could and would support good theatre.
Lynne was an aspiring actress and Linda was writing and producing off-Broadway shows and managing talent when the two met …
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