Rescued by love: Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ takes the stage

The Opera Company of Middlebury’s production opens on June 2 and should not be missed. Not only is the music as powerful as you’d expect, but the 19th century politics are also hauntingly current to us today. 

‏On Saturday, May 27, Town Hall Theater kicks off its summer series outdoors at Lincoln Peak Vineyard in New Haven, with Mal Maiz on Memorial Day weekend.

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? 

Photographer Jim Westphalen has spent more than two decades driving backcountry roads capturing rural structures of a bygone era.

On Thursday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater will be rolling out the red carpet for The Yellow House Community, at their film screening “Boom & Whoa — The Making of a Community Within a Community.” 

MNFF Selects is thrilled to present the Vermont premiere of Navalny on Thursday, April 13, at 7 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.

Organizers of a monumental effort to transform Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater into a regional performing arts center are excited to receive a $500,000 state grant that will help equip THT with a 7,000-square-foot addition — perhaps before the end of next … (read more)

The film has won six best documentary awards and will be shown in conjunction with the “Earth Materials” exhibit by the New Perennials Project of Middlebury College currently in the Jackson Gallery.

On March 14, Governor Scott announced the first round of approved Community Recovery and Revitalization Program grants, and THT received the highest award amount for a non-municipal project.

Fifteen years ago, Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater re-opened after a long community effort to restore the historic landmark. Since then, it has been a Vermont success story, hosting 2,500 events and attracting half a million guests.

Back by popular demand, Town Hall Theater is bringing back London’s National Theatre broadcasts for the first time since the pandemic.

The Champlain Philharmonic will return to Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on March 25, at 7:30 p.m., and Grace Congregational Church in Rutland on March 26, at 4 p.m., to perform their Spring Concert Series, “Nostalgia.”

Town Hall Theater in Middlebury will host a Great Art Wednesday screening of “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” on Wednesday, March 29, at 11 a.m. 

After battling food, weight, and self-esteem issues for years, Trish Dougherty, a poet, mother, and graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, decided to employ her strengths of self-perception, humor, and the written word to wres … (read more)

On Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m., Satta Sound and reggae legend Carlton Livingston will be joining forces with Prince Negasi live on the Town Hall Theater stage in Middlebury.