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Sunday, January 17, 4 p.m., Old Courthouse Theatre, 49 Spring Street NW, Concord. 

The third production in the Old Courthouse Theatre’s new “The Living Room Reading Series,” Countergirls is a full-length comedy by Michael Russell, set at the lunch counter of a F. W. Woolworth’s in a small Southern town in 1990.  The counter is managed by Lib Stallsworth, whose burgeoning country music career was cut short 20 years earlier when she decide to forego the excitement and glamour of the Nashville music scene to raise a family.  Now she is often separated from her husband and son, both of whom are long-distance truckers, and her daughter, who married for money and got “above her raisin’.”  To fill this void, Lib has developed a penchant for collecting strays with whom she shares advice that she has cobbled together from her life experience – and Oprah, Readers’ Digest and Redbook.  She extends herself and her resources to help Betty Ruth, her best from high school who has recently returned from Texas and the throes of a divorce; Donnie Ray, the mentally challenged orphan son of friend and the janitor and general caretaker of the lunch counter; Lynette, the crusty career waitress who fears growing old; and Janita, a Pentecostal preacher’s daughter with a voice to rival any country music queen and a salty tongue that belies her sweetness and innocence. Produced by Jonathan Ewart, the performance is free and rated PG.  For more information, call the theatre at 704-788-2405 or visit www.oldcourthousetheatre.org.

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