Like live theater? Seth Jarvis has got a “play group” for you! The Burlington actor and playwright hasn’t been sitting on his thumbs since his former employer, the late, great Waterfront Video, closed in May. (That’s Jarvis, left, with Chris LaPointe at the store.) He’s gotten married, for one thing. And for another, he’s cooked up a monthly theater event called Playmakers.

Consisting of a directed reading and up to three “cold readings by local writers,” Playmakers launches at 7:30 tonight, November 4 — “by the nature of bookings it will always be on a Monday,” Jarvis says — at the Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington.

“I’m hoping once we begin, people will come forward and join in,” he says. And by people he means “new playwrights, and actors and directors who’ve wanted to try their hand at writing.”

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Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont...