Review: Play about actors was fun, insightful

The mile-a-minute “Moon Over Buffalo” concerns an all-in-the-family acting troupe led by two aging blowhards, George and Charlotte, played to great antic effect by Carl Engvall and Suzanna Miller.

Get ready to laugh – Middlebury Community Players will present three one-act plays by George Bernard Shaw Aug. 21-24 at the ART Black Box Theater at the Hannaford Career Center.

The author wrote this appreciation after earlier this month seeing a series of Beckett plays at Unadilla Theater, a Vermont gem located in a rural part of Marshfield.

Drama met nature last week during an outdoor production of “The Haunted Forest,” an original play written and performed by close to 30 Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) summer program campers on the Trail Around Middlebury this past Friday.

Through its programs, the company aims to help kids build community, self-esteem and other skills in a safe and supportive environment.  

The Bald Mountain Theater will present its annual emersion into the world of folk and fairy tales in this production on July 25, 26 and 27 at the studio in Rochester.

Director Cláudio Medeiros chose this play last summer to stage at Middlebury College this spring. “I had no idea what it would mean today… it’s uncanny, and scary.”

In “Stories That Made Us” the performers come to the rehearsal room with stories, tales or songs that delighted them as children, made them the artists that they are,

The Middlebury College Department of Theatre will present “Orlando,” Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s famous novel, directed by Cláudio Medeiros, on May 2, 3 and 4. Orlando, a wealthy young English nobleman, joins the court of Queen Elizabeth I … (read more)

Lia Romeo’s new dark comedy chronicles a famous and fabulous Instagram influencer and her drab friend.

The Valley Players provide excellent performances of a classic play that seems as alive as ever.

MIDDLEBURY — Playfully blending elements of dance, theater, storytelling and original live music, Lida Winfield Dance brings the innovative company work “Imaginary” to the Mahaney Arts Center on March 13 and 14. The work challenges how we understand ourse … (read more)