Since my wife and I moved here from San Antonio a few years ago, we’ve come to appreciate many things about living in a smaller town — things like the lack of traffic jams, the wonderful holiday parades, the beautiful Hill Country landscape, and the fact that almost everywhere you go you run into someone you know.

One of the other things we really appreciate here is the local community theater, known as the Fredericksburg Theater Company, or the “FTC.” As theater fans, we’ve been so luc...