Theater

Playwright Patrick Keppel in action.

Open auditions for play about young anarchist

WILLIAMSVILLE - The Rock River Players announce open auditions for “The Freeing of Mollie Steimer” by Brattleboro playwright Patrick Keppel. The play follows the life of an early 20th-century anarchist who, at the age of 20, stood up to intense US political oppression, refusing to back down in...

A past production at the Actors Theatre Playhouse

A past production at the Actors Theatre Playhouse

Playhouse holds open auditions for festival

BRATTLEBORO - The Actors Theatre Playhouse in West Chesterfield, NH, announced open auditions for their first production of the 2025 season, the Ten Minute Play Festival, to run for nine performances in June.
Auditions will be held on Saturday, January 4, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm; Monday...

Annual holiday show by circus center

BRATTLEBORO - The New England Center for Circus Arts annual holiday show is a medieval extravaganza of high-flying knights, comedic jesters, and acrobatic legends. Join NECCA in a solstice celebration that features youth and adult circus artists from the recreational and professional programs...

Center for circus arts holds annual holiday show

BRATTLEBORO- New England Center for Circus Arts’ annual holiday show is a medieval-themed display of high flying knights, comedic jesters, and acrobatic legends. Presented at the custom trapezium, this show features advanced acts that skim the ceiling as well as those that play at ground level...

Actresses Adrienne Major, left, and Rebecca Cross, right. Photo by Damian Lix.

Actresses Adrienne Major, left, and Rebecca Cross, right. Photo by Damian Lix.

Theater group performs an edgy, surrealist drama

WILLIAMSVILLE - Rock River Players present Jean Genet’s edgy, surrealist drama “The Maids” the first two weekends in November in Williamsville, then in Brattleboro.
French dramatist Genet originally wrote “The Maids” in 1947, though he had changed the ending in subsequent iterations. It’s...

Experience thrill of unscripted acting

WILLIAMSVILLE - The Rock River Players offer a night of improv at the Williamsville Hall. Come experience the creative energy, and great unknowns, of unscripted acting.
Producer Peter Broussard will be joined by Rose Watson, John Moran, John Orgorzalek, Sue Kelly, Nick Morgan, Sean...

Tracy Berchi plays the role of Antigone.

Tracy Berchi plays the role of Antigone.

Contemporary retelling of ancient Greek tragedy

WILLIAMSVILLE - Rock River Players present Sophocles’ “Antigone” in a contemporary translation by Paul Woodruff Friday, September 13, to Friday, September 20.
“Antigone” was the first in the last set of plays, the Theban plays, written by Sophocles (c. 496 to 406 BCE). Followed by “...

Vermont Public Theater offers an outdoor presentation of “Twelfth Night” by Shakespeare in the Woods on Sunday.

Vermont Public Theater offers an outdoor presentation of “Twelfth Night” by Shakespeare in the Woods on Sunday.

A free performance of “Twelfth Night”

BENNINGTON - Vermont Public Theater continues its mission of building healthier communities through the arts with an outdoor, free presentation of “Twelfth Night” by Shakespeare in the Woods on Sunday, August 25, at 2 pm, at Merchants Park. The event is a fundraiser for Bennington County...

Delicate as magnolias, tough as steel

WILLIAMSVILLE - Rock River Players present Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” on Friday, August 9; Saturday, August 10; Friday, August 16; Saturday, August 17, at 7 pm; and Sunday, August 11 and 18, at 2 pm Williamsville Hall, located at 35 Dover Road.
Based on Harling’s experience with...

Caden Ari Adair (front) plays Sonny Malone, a sidewalk street artist in Venice, CA. Hillary Smith (back) plays Kira, the youngest daughter of Zeus and ancient Greek muse of history.

Caden Ari Adair (front) plays Sonny Malone, a sidewalk street artist in Venice, CA. Hillary Smith (back) plays Kira, the youngest daughter of Zeus and ancient Greek muse of history.

“Xanadu,” award-nominated musical, to be staged at Memorial Hall

WILMINGTON - “Xanadu,” the 2007 award-nominated musical about following one’s dreams despite the limitations that others set, will be presented by the Deerfield Valley Players at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, August 14, through Saturday, August 17, at Memorial Hall, 14 West Main Street.
“Xanadu”...