WESTON — The Weston Playhouse Young Company production of “Seussical” proved an effervescent fantasy that enchanted a horde of youngsters — and drew in the adults with its depth of characters and wit — at its opening performance Friday on a lawn outside Walker Farm at Weston Playhouse.
WESTON — The Weston Playhouse Young Company production of “Seussical” proved an effervescent fantasy that enchanted a horde of youngsters — and drew in the adults with its depth of characters and wit — at its opening performance Friday on a lawn outside Walker Farm at Weston Playhouse.
Barre did not have an Independence Day parade outdoors this year, but SPA has one in its gallery. “The Parade is Coming!” with paintings, sculptures, mixed media assemblages by 25 artists is on exhibit at SPA through Aug. 19.
Another town has shut off Popcorn Falls’ namesake waterfall to recycle them as a sewage treatment site. But Popcorn Falls’ townsfolk (“kernels”) discover a loophole when they find they can secure a town-saving grant if they can produce a play — in just one week!
Robert DuGrenier’s glass shells are among the artworks by 21 glass artists in “2021˚ F: 10th Anniversary Vermont Glass Guild Exhibition” in the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum t at Manchester’s Southern Vermont Arts Center. The exhibition shows a stunning variety of techniques and expression i…
Vermonters can thank a burst water pipe in Rick Norcross’ home in Burlington this March for an album of music that highlights just how good some of Vermont’s music groups were in 1986.
Burlington singer-songwriter Katy Hellman, who co-fronted Julia Caesar, released her stellar debut album “Marrow” in April under the moniker Ruby. Last month, Hellman changed the name of the band — which also includes Julia Caesar drummer and her primary collaborator Steven LeBel — to the Bu…
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MARLBORO — Marlboro Music Festival is back, and it seems to have lost nothing in its year of COVID hiatus. In fact, the opening concerts, Saturday and Sunday, revealed the festival’s legendary expert execution and passionate music making.
The boldness of the color juxtapositions in Paul Guhler’s painting makes an immediate physical and emotional impression. The viewer is forced to stop and look!
Puccini’s “La Bohème” is one of the biggest “blockbusters” in opera, but that’s not the only reason that Opera North chose it as the anchor of its Summerfest 2021, being presented July 16-Aug. 1 at the regional opera company’s summer home, Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Following a nearly year-long stay in France, where she was born and raised and still has family living, Burlington-based singer-songwriter Francesca Blanchard didn’t really envision performing much this summer upon returning to Vermont in mid-April.
Weston Playhouse is presenting its Young Company in the popular musical comedy “Seussical” on tour to 11 different locations throughout southern and central Vermont July 22-Aug. 7 — and admission is free.
A decidedly groove oriented music festival, the first ever for the Morse Maple Sugarworks Farm on County Road in Montpelier, is bringing a variety of primarily Burlington bands to this popular tourist destination July 24. The 12-hour festival begins at noon ending at midnight.
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WESTON — Good storytelling is the backbone of good theater, and Homer’s “The Iliad” is a tale so old that it is nearly universal. In “An Iliad,” the 2012 theatrical adaptation by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, the story reveals its contemporary importance.
MANCHESTER — Imagine if people said everything they thought they when thought it. Of course, in the outrageous playwright Christopher Durang’s hands, the characters would be demented – but uncomfortably like ourselves.
Before it was written down, “The Iliad” by Homer was passed down through the ages through an oral tradition being revised as it went. “An Iliad,” the 2012 theatrical adaptation by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, takes it a step further passing it down to today’s audiences.
Altogether, 94 paintings from artists across the country, selected by acclaimed artist jurors, are there. This year, it also features a show within the show, the first exhibition of the Whiskey Painters of America presented in New England.
Vermont’s chamber music season is now fully upon us. Manchester’s Taconic Music, the Green Mountain Chamber Music at Saint Michael’s College this year, and the Manchester Music Festival are all well underway. Now, it’s time for two venerable favorites to rear their heads — both a little diff…
The hillside at Dog Mountain in St. Johnsbury will once again be alive with the sounds of music, as the Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Music Series returns after a pandemic-induced hiatus in 2020 for its fourth summer of free concerts.
Free summer music concerts return to the Martha Pellerin-Andy Shapiro Memorial Bandstand in Middlesex Wednesday evening, July 14 after the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic hiatus. This year’s program “Celebrates Women in Music.”
The exhibition “Women of WAM: Depictions of Femininity in Early Europe,” at the Worcester Museum of Art in Massachusetts, displays artworks from the museum’s collection of European art featuring a selection of paintings and sculptures depicting female saints, mythological subjects, and membe…
A “mural on glass” decorates the 77ART downtown window at 59-67 Merchants Row in Rutland.
Join others in the community in a celebration of four new shows at Studio Place Arts (SPA) in Barre during its Art Social 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 15.
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MANCHESTER — Rebecca Clarke’s 1919 Sonata for Viola and Piano has enjoyed popular success with classical music’s attempt to recognize the importance of women composers — but it wasn’t until Thursday evening that I understood why.
Laughter may well be the best medicine and Dorset Theatre Festival is inviting its audience back to in-person theater after a year’s hiatus with lots of it — and a bit more.
Among the 10 artists in the exhibition are individuals who identify as female, immigrant, queer, transgender, non-binary, with disabilities, Black, Indian American, Native American, Asian, South American and more.
“Ring the bells from every steeple — live music is back in Vermont!”
Author Lewis Carroll’s timeless story of a girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole into an alternate universe is one of the most-loved stories and best examples of the literary nonsense genre, making it a classic with both kids and adults. It was published more than 100 years ago and has never b…
Julia Doucet partnered with the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, and Mark Bennett, a New Hampshire cartoonist, and began pairing migrant storytellers with regional cartoonists.
Long known for its user-friendly mix of catchy pop melodies, intelligent lyricism and penchant for percussion, accomplished pop-rock group Guster plays its first show in nearly a year and a half July 10 at Shelburne Museum, as part of the Ben & Jerry’s Concerts on the Green Series.
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“It’s hard to imagine a world without him.”
“Exploring Earth” features painting, drawing, mixed media and video installation by five BIPOC artists — Vermont artists Jennifer Herrera Condry, Will Kasso Condry and Harlan Mack, Amy Hook-Therrien and California-based international muralist, speaker and writer Gibran.
From July 1 to 21, The VSO’s “Close to Home & Far Afield: Homes & Gardens Tour” will feature four ensembles — the VSO Woodwind Quartet, VSO String Quartet, VSO Brass Quintet and the VSO Juke Box String Quartet — in 17 concerts across the Vermont.
The bad news: The 10th anniversary edition of Grace Potter’s Grand Point North festival, which was scheduled to return to Burlington Waterfront Park Sept. 11-12, has been canceled.
This jam session, led by Dana and Susan Robinson, might be the only one of its kind where one can amble in the aisles looking for horse feed or nails while fiddles, banjos, guitars and basses are making music.
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents the “Close to Home & Far Afield: Homes & Gardens Tour”:
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MANCHESTER — Vermont’s summer music season opened Saturday — in person and indoors — with a beautiful bouquet of musical colors. Actually, the closing work of Taconic Music’s opening concert of its fifth season at Burr and Burton Academy’s Riley Center for the Arts was more of a drenching of…
Four rooms in Rutland’s Chaffee Art Center are filled with its latest exhibit, “4 Strong Women,” which is up until July 23. A rollercoaster of shapes and colors in the front gallery, a neon garden of flowers in full bloom in another, scenes of people living happy moments are the piano room, …
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, after last year’s virtual edition, is back, and the seventh annual will be in-person and — mostly — indoors. Already there have 432 film submissions — the previous high was 375.
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