Theater

Ghost stories

BENNINGTON - On October 16 at 7 pm, Bennington Performing Arts Center, 331 Main Street, will present “Whispering Bones” - a mix of classic, creepy, and comic ghost stories performed by Dr. Erastus Betterov-Underhill and friends. This is a family-friendly show open to ages 10 and up. “Whispering...

Outdoor performance takes place in Old First Church Cemetery

OLD BENNINGTON - Bennington Community Theater’s first live production this season, “Voices from the Grave,” will be performed outside on the grounds of the famed Old First Church Cemetery, on Saturday, September 25, and Saturday, October 2.
Go on a guided tour and meet the people beneath...

Clown Ted Lawrence will present “Trunkside Tales.”

True tales from a circus

NEWFANE - On Sunday, September 12, at 2 pm, circus clown Ted Lawrence will present “Trunkside Tales” at the West River Railroad Museum, Cemetery Hill Road.
Ted Lawrence will bring a piece of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he was a clown working under the big top...

Teen performers for the “Listen Up” musical. Photo by Carley Stevens McLaughlin

Vermont teens tell their stories

PUTNEY - The “Listen Up” musical, an original musical based on the lives of Vermont teens, will be performed Tuesday, August 10, and Wednesday, August 11, at Landmark College.
Created and performed by Vermont teens, the show will go to the heart of current youth issues, including mental...

Oldcastle one-woman production

BENNINGTON - Oldcastle Theatre Company’s 49th season continues with “Shakespeare’s Will,” Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen’s one-woman show about the wife of William Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway.
The production will run from August 6 to 15. Immediately following the 2 pm show on August 7...

Plan now for theater auditions

BENNINGTON - Auditions for Bennington Community Theater’s production of “The Haunting of Hill House” will be held on Monday, August 28, and Tuesday, August 29, from 1 to 4 pm at the Second Congregational Church, 115 Hillside Street. For more information visit bpacvt.org.

Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Daricia Mia DeMarr, and Novella Ford.

Importance of black identity in art

BRATTLEBORO- Artist Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Daricia Mia DeMarr of Black Women in Visual Art, and Novella Ford of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture discuss Black identity and representation in art in “Holding Space: Reflections on Children of the Sun,” an online conversation...

Theater group looking for participants

WILMINGTON- “Cyrano,” the 1973 Broadway musical, will be in rehearsal by the Deerfield Valley Players, a local community theater group, beginning Sunday, May 2.
Anyone who is interested in joining in this venture, whether it be acting, singing, costuming, stage managing, lighting, ticket...

“The Last Five Years” by Jayne Bernardi and Molly Delaney.

Keene State College presents musical

KEENE, NH- “The Last Five Years,” a musical by Jason Robert Brown, will be presented Tuesday to Saturday, March 30 to April 3, by the Keene State College Department of Theatre and Dance.
Directed by Kirstin Riegler, Keene State Associate Professor in Acting/ Musical Theatre, the musical...

“The Great Rebellion” live on stage

Bennington- Join the Bennington Performing Arts center on November 11 at 2 pm and 7:30 pm for “The Great Rebellion.”
Although Bennington is best known for the Revolutionary War battle on the Walloomsac River, many more soldiers from Bennington fought and died in the Civil War.
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