Jodi Picoult play in the works

Yellow Taxi Productions has commissioned a play based on The Pact by New Hampshire author Jodi Picoult. Jeannette Angell is doing the adapting, and you can hear a staged reading of the set-in-New-Hampshire story Sunday, March 1, at 7 p.m. , at YTP at 5 Pine St., Extension, Mill Annex #6 in Nashua (follow the signs). It’s free. Stay after the reading for a talkback. YTP’s full production is in April.