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 front of them. A central but sometimes overlooked component of the collaboration is the playwright.
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.
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.
Six adults arrive at a secluded retreat center in the woods for five days of guided meditation. Each one is a troubled soul who has tried other healing paths without lasting success. Will this time be somehow different?
Before the Nicene Creed in 325AD, before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, women were preachers and prophetesses for The Way. This is a story about one of them who has a final chance to have her story heard, until it is lost t … (read more)
Throughout 2022, Middlebury Acting Company has staged plays about the hottest topics in American political life.
Middlebury’s Swift House Inn will become a temporary home to creative theater work next week when the Middlebury Acting Co. presents its first-ever festival of new plays, a three-day event that will showcase three original works and offer workshops to asp … (read more)
A few hours at the theater can help us escape momentarily from the wrenching problems of the real world. But sometimes a play does an even more important job by revealing and dramatizing the kind of person who might help bring us back from the brink, and … (read more)
Middlebury Acting Company’s Cutting-Edge Staged Reading series presents “Dance Nation” by Clare Barron, on Friday, May 13, 7:30 p.m., at ArtsRiot in Burlington and on Sunday, May 15, 4 p.m., at the ART Performance Space in the Hannaford Career Center, Mid … (read more)
Middlebury Acting Company kicks off its 2022 season with “The Niceties” by Eleanor Burgess, a complex and compelling depiction of racial and generational divides that speaks directly to our polarized, post-truth era, as it asks who gets to tell the story … (read more)
