 What makes for excellence in hard care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. Artist Collaborative Theater will be holding auditions for the stage adaptation of Stephen King's Misery. This is an open call. We're casting Annie Wilkes, Paul Sheldon and Buster in the play Misery and we're looking for a woman within her 30s to 50s and a man within 40s to 60s and then any age for Buster. But yeah, we're just going to come in and we're going to do cold reads and see who we get. The play follows novelist Paul Sheldon who is rescued from a car crash by his deranged number one fan, Annie Wilkes, who forces him to write a new Misery novel. To prepare, they just need to show up and have their personal schedules in their mind of what dates they could be available for rehearsals and if they're going to be able to make it to all the performance dates, things like that. But as far as like preparing any material, it's just a cold read so they really don't have to come in with anything. Auditions for the play will be held at the Pike County Extension Office at 3 p.m. on Saturday, January 14th. For more information, you can visit the artist's collaborative theater, Inc. Facebook page. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.