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 than … a pamphlet? Lucky for us, Dickens suddenly got a better idea. He wrote his story “A Christmas Carol,” about a wealthy London miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who has a startling spiritual awakening, and changes his mind and heart about Christmas and everything else. Scrooge’s overnight journey from “Bah, humbug!” to “God bless us, every one!” … (read more)

Middlebury Acting Company will bring its third and final staged reading to the Town Hall Theater stage on Sunday, Oct. 5.

Caution! Stay back! Parent on Board. Come poke fun at the beautiful chaos of parenting during the sketch comedy shows at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, Sept. 18-20.

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 their series of staged readings, are a good start. But MACo also takes on t … (read more)

“Wharton Between the Sheets” takes us to Paris in 1908 and brings together novelist Edith Wharton, her dear friend Henry James, her lover Morton Fullerton and her Irish lady’s maid in an eyebrow-raising retelling of Wharton’s actual mid-life romance.

Middlebury Acting Company’s Cutting-Edge Staged Reading Series returns with its eighth season of provocative, relevant, intelligent plays: all three were seen Off Broadway in 2024.

General auditions for MACo’s 25th season are scheduled for Friday, Feb. 7, from 5-8 p.m., in the Middlebury Town Hall Theater’s new Center For Learning and Engagement studio, and Saturday, Feb. 8, from 12-3 p.m. on the main stage of the theater.

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 Stanislavsky.

Fundamental to creation of a play is collaboration. Directors impose a vision, actors inhabit their characters and perform their lines, technicians light and dress the actors and stage — even the audience plays a part by reacting to the action they see in … (read more)

Middlebury Acting Company’s acclaimed Staged Reading Series is back for its seventh season, presenting a lineup of provocative and intellectually stimulating plays.

As the snow melts away and the early bulbs push through the crystalized dirt, we’re given a performance by the Middlebury Acting Company to help us process a question that is spring eternal: How do we make the most of the time that we have?

Got a play that you’ve written but haven’t got a place to have it performed? The Middlebury Acting Company is calling all Vermont playwrights for submissions to its third annual New Play Festival.

From the magical moment just before Christmas of 1843 when Charles Dickens released his novella “A Christmas Carol,” it was an instant bestseller.

Middlebury Acting Company’s Cutting Edge Staged Reading Series returns, with its third and final offering this season of provocative, relevant, intelligent plays.

Literary historian Kim Roberts recently told the Washington Post that Vermont is the American state with the highest proportion of writers.