Courageous classrooms bring larger-than-life roles to the stage

In fair Verona we know too well the desperate tragedy that befalls “two households both alike in dignity” — ah, yes, good ol’ “Romeo and Juliet.” But what does that play look like when you transport it to the classroom of fourth- and fifth-graders?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Ikcuw9-80 Something special happened in Middlebury last weekend. Folks in Buttolph Acres and at EastView were drawn out of their homes and into the streets by an old-fashioned traveling show. Created by Town Hall Theater’ … (read more)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=0db83uHO1W4 MIDDLEBURY — Fifth- and sixth-graders from Ripton, Salisbury, Cornwall and Shoreham will take to the Town Hall Theater stage Thursday night to perform Shakespeare’s Henry IV — battling with broad … (read more)

The Town Hall Theater’s Education team, namely Courageous Stage’s Lindsay Pontius, Craig Maravich and their wonderful team of artists and educators did an incredible and moving job with about 90 local fifth and sixth graders from four different elementary … (read more)