It Can't Happen Here: Sudbury MA April 30th, 2026
Thu, Apr 30
|First Parish of Sudbury
A Reading of Part One of the Play Sudbury Meetinghouse at First Parish 327 Concord Rd, Sudbury, MA Thursday, April 30th at 7:00pm Free and open to the public Parking across the street behind Sudbury Town Hall Guided discussion after the reading
Time & Location
Apr 30, 2026, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
First Parish of Sudbury, 327 Concord Rd, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA
About the event
In 1935, Sinclair Lewis looked at the situation in Europe and the popularity of Louisiana politician Huey Long, and published a novel, It Can’t Happen Here, a cautionary tale on authoritarianism and the rise of fascism in America. A year later, Lewis and John Moffitt adapted the novel into a play with the same title. Since then, a reading version of the play, first created for radio, has been developed.
That reading, It Can’t Happen Here, will be produced Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m. in the Sudbury Meetinghouse at First Parish in Sudbury.
Linda Hench, wife of Representative Carmine Gentile, is spearheading the effort.