Theater

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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Performers in SOLOs Episode 1 include, top, from left, Annie Landenberger, Contantine Benso, and Tom Ely; middle, Dan Lloyd, Rose Watson, and Jonathan Kinnersley; and bottom, Cameron Cobane and John Ogorzalek

Video montage of monologues on Brattleboro Community Television

BRATTLEBORO- SOLOs Episode 1, a video montage of monologues and poetry by eight talented local actors filmed by Brattleboro Community Television, premieres simultaneously on BCTV and YouTube on Friday, November 13, at 7:30 pm.
Bahman Mahdavi of the Rock River Players coordinated this...

New weekly open mic at the BMAC

BRATTLEBORO- The Brattleboro Music Center is launching a weekly open mic program. BMC Open Mic is for all musicians, for all genres, ages, and abilities, and debuts Monday, November 9. Until musicians and music lovers can gather again in person safely, the BMC open mic events allow performers to...