Theater makers task community with questions about ‘The Strangers’ Case’

Consider these three words: Migrate. Stranger. Home.

“The Best We Could” (a family tragedy) by playwright and 2009 Middlebury College graduate Emily Feldman will be performed in the Byers Studio at Town Hall Theater on Saturday, Sept. 7, and Sunday, Sept. 8, at 4 p.m.

Standing in the gazebo one day, looking out over the Middlebury town green, I realized that the view hasn’t changed in 100 years.

Performed in a one-of-a-kind suit-stage, this show packs classic hand puppetry, Dadaist ventriloquism, and stand-up comedy into a cardboard box.

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

The third installment of Vermont Book Shop and Town Hall Theater’s “Up for Discussion” series will feature Middlebury Athletic Director Erin Quinn, Carol Weston, and author and journalist Alex Wolff for “Youth Sports in the Community and Beyond.” This sal … (read more)

A $7 million fund drive for the renovation and expansion of Middlebury’s Town Theater (THT) is hitting the homestretch, with organizers announcing a generous donation-match offer, a buy-a-brick campaign and an upcoming auction as part of their strategy to … (read more)

On Friday, May 10, Jazz Middlebury and Town Hall Theater present “An Evening with Mathis Picard,” of Jazz at Lincoln Center touring band fame.

Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater will host three free programs next month that you don’t want to miss. Composer Mathew Evan Taylor and choreographer Laurel Jenkins will present “27 Breaths,” a live music and movement piece on Sunday, May 5; former dean of t … (read more)

Acclaimed author, comic storyteller, innkeeper, and University of New Hampshire alum Cindy Pierce will perform at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Saturday, April 27, at 7 p.m. — her first stop on a tour performing in four Vermont communities,  April th … (read more)

On Friday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m., three of Addison County’s finest songwriters return home to Town Hall Theater for an intimate evening of original material and familiar classics in three-part harmony.

Next Thursday, April 18, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Select Series will present “Beyond Utopia” at 7 p.m., in Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater.

‏A poet once wrote: ‏“Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies,
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!”

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?

‏When Doug Anderson first taught a course on the “American Musical,” he didn’t have a lot of technology at his disposal. He had, basically, a pile of cassette tapes.