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- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Day, Cassandra (December 6, 2017). "Deal between Middletown, Oddfellows Playhouse ends theater's financial struggles". The Middletown Press.
- ↑ "Oddfellows Playhouse presents "A Midsummer Night's Dream"". November 3, 2021.
- ↑ Gordon, Jane (May 21, 2006). "Partners in Culture". The New York Times.
- ↑ Staff reports (July 28, 2021). "Oddfellow's Children's Circus of Middletown performs Aug. 6". The Middletown Press.
- ↑ "Middletown: Oddfellows Playhouse performing OLIVER! opening Dec. 5". The Middletown Press. December 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Connecticut's Community Theaters: Reflecting Us Back to Ourselves". Connecticut Magazine. 9 February 2017.