Framingham High Stages Our Town, Chamber Gala and Movie Filming in Framingham

It's Monday, and that means Framingham Patch has put together this list of things going on in Framingham to help make your week a little easier and more fun.

1. The Framingham High School Drama Company opens its season with Thornton Wilder's Our Town on Friday, Nov. 15 and Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m.
This American Classic play transports the audience to Grover’s Corners in New Hampshire, where the everyday life is seen through the lives of the townspeople from the years 1901-1913. The audience follows two families, the Webb and Gibbs, through daily life, love and marriage and death and eternity in three acts.

Directed by Stephanie Henry, tickets are available at www.showtix4u.com. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 night of performance.

2. The MetroWest Chamber of Commerce will hold its 118th Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner Thursday, Nov. 14 at the Sheraton Hotel in Framingham. Tickets are $75 for the gala event and can be purchased 508-879-5600, if still available.

3. Wednesday, Nov. 13 bring your children to the main Framingham Library for a free drop-in holiday craft-making session, sponsored by Transition Framingham. Participants will learn to making gifts and decorations while helping the environment. Families are suggested to bring in old holiday cards for an extra special craft, but it is not required.

4. Hollywood is coming to Framingham this week. Allied Films and actor Vince Vaughn are expected to be in South Framingham next week to film scenes for a movie titled "Business Trip." A majority of the scenes will be filmed in a private residence.

5.  On Sunday, Nov. 17, the Framingham History Center will present Highways, Shopping and the Suburban Shift at 2 p.m. at Edgell Memorial Library.

Attendees will learn how Framingham’s current landscape is connected with Boston traffic, downtown department stores, and regional highway development in the 1920s, 30s and 1940s.

Dr. Amy Finstein, an architectural and urban historian at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, will discuss how concerns over metro-Boston’s traffic congestion and economic vitality ultimately encouraged the exponential growth of western suburbs including Framingham in the 1950s and 1960s.

There will also be a discussion on Boston retailers including Filene’s and Jordan Marsh, local roads including the MassPike, and construction of the idyllic suburban neighborhoods that so many of us now call home. Admission $5.