Nine seasoned actors and five local children will take the stage at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury to perform an imaginative and theatrical version of Charles Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol.”
Addison County natives Miranda Ferriss Jones and Vanessa Dunleavy are coming back to the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, on Nov. 18-20, to finally perform their musical “Showing Up.”
Jorge Martín’s piece, the “El Paso Requiem,” pays tribute to the victims and survivors of the 2019 mass shooting at the Walmart in El Paso.
“The whole idea is: Let’s just have some fun!” said Mary Barnett, who volunteers at the library every week, and launched the mini-gallery project in August.
“I write the way a tortoise runs, although occasionally, instead of a hare, I pull a poem out of a hat,” said Michael Collier, who recently published a new book of poetry.
Opera Company of Middlebury is rehearsing now for the opening of “The Maid of Orleans” on Oct. 1, at Town Hall Theater.
Tchaikovsky called it “my masterpiece,” and yet his opera about Joan of Arc has virtually disappeared since its debut in 1881.Why?“Epic is the best word for this score,” explained Opera Company of Middlebury’s music director Michael Sakir. “This is balls … (read more)
Summer COVID-style has been — shall we say it? — almost bearable. Masks have gotten cuter and more comfortable, vaccinations are widely available and six feet feels just fine. Yes, we’ve adapted and have enjoyed outdoor events, gatherings, live music and … (read more)
“Music has always been a part of my life.”Since he was a boy growing up in a suburb of Rochester, N.Y., Jeff Rehbach was surrounded and inspired by music.“My parents sang in the Lutheran church choir in my hometown, and my younger sister, brother and I al … (read more)
With a name like “Home Grown; Pasture Raised” it’s no surprise that the new exhibit at the Brandon Artists Guild features farm animals — no, no, don’t get too excited, there won’t actually be sheep stuffing the gallery and chickens flapping in the windows … (read more)
Sometimes you need to step back to see something clearly; or if your Vergennes filmmaker and photographer Chris Spencer, you use a drone. Flying high over the Little City, Spencer’s footage captures the picturesque falls, homes nestled snuggly on their qu … (read more)
Slowly, slowly, the stars are beginning to align. We’re emerging from this pandemic with some trepidation — nod to the Delta variant — but nonetheless, press forward. Masks on, masks off… masks on again? Let’s do whatever it takes to hold onto the live pe … (read more)
Did you see a trailer parked outside Aubuchon in Vergennes a couple weekends ago? It was big and teal, with the words “BUILDING ARTS” in big white letters. Well we found out what exactly was going on inside that trailer and it’s pretty cool. Ryan Pierson … (read more)
What do you do with “really big string,” “really big hooks” and “really big hands?”Why make really big crochet doilies, of course.Just ask Mona Richardson (a.k.a. Mona Rae Hill — that’s her artist’s name) who has made probably the biggest doilies in all o … (read more)
Back in the late 1800s, newsboys were on every street corner in New York. Poor, often homeless and shoeless, their cries of “Extra! Read all about it!” could be heard throughout the city. But when publishers Pulitzer and Hearst demanded a bigger cut of th … (read more)
