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IMAGE GALLERY: Ioka Marquee is Back

Members of the Exeter Theater Company put it up Thursday.

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"JOIN EXETERTHEATER.ORG/WE CAN DO IT"

Those phrases are now on the sides of the Ioka marquee – the first time it has spelled out a message since the historic building was .

Carol Walker Aten and Trevor Bartlett of the Exeter Theater Company threw up the marquee letters Thursday. They got a ladder to do so courtesy of .

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The Exeter Theater Company is working with Alan Lewis – the Kensington philanthropist – to revive it as a community theater.

The company is holding a membership drive, with a goal of signing up 1,000 donors by the end of March. You can .

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