David Weinstock
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Does Opera Still Matter? See La Traviata!
David Weinstock previews the Opera Company of Middlebury’s upcoming performance of “La Traviata.”
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‘Eureka Day’ shares sharp comedy on doing the ‘right thing’
“Eureka Day” will bring the house down with laughter starting May 1 in Middlebury.
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Middlebury Acting Company locks in a new yuletide tradition
In 1843, author Charles Dickens became so troubled by the plight of England’s poor that he considered publishing a pamphlet. A pamphlet!! What can save the world better…
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From Paris to Brooklyn to Middlebury, La Bohème is back!
Back in 2008, the brave and unlikely start-up Opera Company of Middlebury unveiled its first fully staged production in the renovated Town Hall Theater, Puccini’s “La Bohème.”
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Wharton Between the Sheets (and how Middlebury Acting Company makes new plays happen)
A key part of Middlebury Acting Company’s mission, under Melissa Lourie’s direction, has always been to find and perform new contemporary work. Their annual New Play Festival, and…
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‘The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey’: A play about how a child changed the world
In a small town on the Jersey shore, a frightened family reports that a 14-year-old boy has disappeared. Police detective Chuck DeSantis quickly deduces that this is no…
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Local ‘treasure’ notices importance of poetry
David Weinstock has been the shepherd of several poetry groups, including the Otter Creek Poetry Workshop, which has met every Thursday (except Thanksgiving) for the past 27 years.
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MACo presents ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ a play about life
Russian author Anton Chekhov in his short life wrote a thousand stories and 14 plays. His last play was “The Cherry Orchard,” first produced in Moscow by Konstantin…
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Opera Company of Middlebury presents ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ & ‘The Interlopers’
America is painfully divided, politically and socially. The nightly news is full of violence and turmoil. But Derrick Wang’s opera “Scalia/Ginsburg” offers a ray of hope, featuring two…
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Tomorrow’s opera stars here today: Young artists take the stage
Gymnasts and ballerinas can go world-class in their teens, but an opera singer is a different kind of athlete. According to Sarah Cullins, Opera Company of Middlebury (OCM)…
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It’s an opera! It’s a rom-com! It’s ‘La Fille Du Regiment!’
It begins the way all rom-coms do: Two single people “meet cute.” Picking flowers on a mountainside in the Tyrolean Alps, Marie topples off a cliff, but has…
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‘O’Carolan’s Farewell’ brings duo back to the stage
Even if you haven’t a drop of Irish blood in your veins, you have Irish music in your mind, perhaps far more than you realize.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Dickens!
From the magical moment just before Christmas of 1843 when Charles Dickens released his novella “A Christmas Carol,” it was an instant bestseller.
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Glory Denied: New American opera about the history of now
Great opera doesn’t need to be about anything — sometimes all we crave is unforgettable music and fabulous voices. But Opera Company of Middlebury’s “Glory Denied,” opening Sept.…
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Local poet makes good at Town Hall Theater
Literary historian Kim Roberts recently told the Washington Post that Vermont is the American state with the highest proportion of writers.
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MACo presents Heidi Schreck’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’
Ratified in 1788, permanently inked in cursive script on broad sheets of parchment, the U.S. Constitution might look like settled history, a totally done deal.