11/12/2025
“There is Nothing to Writing” – Actors Company Presents Ernest Hemingway to Westford Audiences
The Actors Company returns to the Parish Center for the Arts on November 29 at 7pm, but actor J.T. Turner will not be revisiting his role as Charles Dickens. This intriguing and enlightening performance will bring the legendary Ernest Hemingway to the 10 Lincoln Street stage in “Hemingway’s Last Drink.” Cabaret seating. Tickets range from $18-$22. For information about this and all upcoming concerts at the PCA, call (978) 692-6333 or visit pcawestford.org.
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” - Ernest Hemingway
Starting as a reporter in Kansas City, Hemingway’s punchy writing style soon elevated him to an internationally renowned author. The Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author explores love, loss, vulnerability, war, and human connection through timeless works like "The Old Man and The Sea," "For Whom The Bell Tolls," "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell To Arms." In this well-researched and original portrayal of the legendary writer, award-winning actor & playwright J. T. Turner brings Hemingway vibrantly to life. Meet him, talk to him, and engage with J.T. Turner about this hero, poet and 'father of literature.'
The Actors Company, celebrating its 22nd year, offers original, engaging, historical and literary character based shows, by award-winning writer-actor-educator J.T. Turner. Turner (SAG-AFTRA, AEA) is an award-winning stage, screen and audio actor, teaching artist and speaker. He has toured theaters, museums, schools, universities, historical sites, libraries, and senior centers all over the North America with his original one-man shows, including: “Robert Frost, Light and Dark,” “The Adventures of Benjamin Franklin”, “Shakespeare’s Ghost,” “A Visit with C.S. Lewis”, “Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol”, “John Muir: Father of America’s Parks,” “Washington Irving in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “A Visit with John Steinbeck,” and “Fitzgerald & Gatsby,” “Hemingway’s Last Drink,” as well as storytelling, mindful movement, and theater education programs.
J.T.’s original play “Within These Walls” was featured at the Smithsonian Museum of American History and awarded an Essex National Heritage Pioneer in Partnerships Award. His Mill Talk: The Charles Dickens Lectures” was commissioned by The Lowell Institute & Charles River Museum of Industry, and he has served as an on-camera historical consultant on The Travel Channel. He has been awarded multiple Pinnacle Awards from
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