Laissez les bons temps rouler, and for an extra measure of fun, let’s get down home and dancing. The ninth annual Spice on Snow Winter Music Festival is coming Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 24-27, to Montpelier and it’s going to bring a lot of warmth and fun to a usually cold late January.
When conductor James Feddeck meets the musicians of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra next week to prepare for Burlington and Rutland concerts, it will be for the first time. Guest conducting can be daunting.
It’s a curious feeling to see the place where you live appear onscreen. There’s a twinge of recognition as you see streets you’ve walked down and buildings you’ve been in presented in a totally different context through the magic of filmmaking. If only exiting the Rutland parking garage coul…
Last Saturday’s frigid temperatures didn’t keep Scrag Mountain Music from packing Montpelier’s Christ Episcopal Church for its early music program. More than 200 folk, many elderly, filled the pews and responded enthusiastically to a program designed to be welcoming to all. Last November, Ca…
She’s back! After the door slam heard around the world, Nora, from Ibsen’s classic, “A Doll’s House,” has returned to husband Torvald’s home — and not for the reason you’d expect. Lucas Hnath’s sequel, “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” is the most produced play in America, this season.
It’s not political or angry. Really mean stuff doesn’t work either. Bob Marley’s light-hearted variety of comedy is what people respond to, but it took him a long time to get there.
The key is to just say yes. That’s what Mike Kingsbury and Beth Wolven say is at the heart of improv.
The “Strictly Sedimentary” show at Studio Place Arts in Barre, on view Jan. 22-March 9, includes artwork with a purposeful approach to layering and deposition.
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The Vermont Burlesque Festival brings its “Granite City Showcase” to the Barre Opera House at 8 p.m. Friday. But the festival begins Wednesday in Burlington.
It’s not totally true that you can’t see Led Zeppelin anymore. Kashmir: The Live Led Zeppelin Show comes to the Paramount Theatre in Rutland at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19.
Next weekend, Northern Stage will invite local audiences to become part of the creative process, sharing readings of new plays with the playwrights, actors and creative team at the Upper Valley’s resident professional theater.
We have long known that Vermont is chock full of fine artists, but that makes it no less exciting when another emerges - especially one that combines originality and consummate skill. University of Vermont composer David Furzeig is just that.
Katie Trautz, a stalwart in the Vermont old-time, Cajun and Americana musical circles has released her first solo CD since 2009’s “Remembering.” “Passage” is a nine-track, 30-minute album that has Trautz writing all the songs, playing banjo, guitar and fiddle with a band that includes electr…
A new year in these parts typically takes a little while to gather up some steam in the live music department. But for such a short month, February is seriously smokin’ with several hot music options to start planning for.
There’s a point early on in “Vice” when a young Dick Cheney asks then-Congressman Donald Rumsfeld what it is they believe. It’s a seemingly earnest question from a wet-behind-ears political neophyte attempting to formulate a worldview. Rumsfeld laughs in Cheney’s face.
Death is for us human beings the ultimate concern. We know that one day we and our loved ones are going to die, but not when — and most importantly, our destination after we pass away.
The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts Live in HD Francesco Cilea's “Adriana Lecouvreur” to Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, and rebroadcasts it to Rutland’s Paramount Theatre at 12:55 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13.
Previewing upcoming arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Previewing upcoming arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Comprehensive listings of public art exhibits, galleries and museums throughout the region.
When the Dublin-based band Lankum: Dublin Folk Miscreants takes the stage at the Barre Opera House for its 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12 performance, the audience will see a decided change in the look and style of a traditional Irish band.
From the jungles of Rwanda to the savannas of Australia, Jack Hanna brings animals from the far corners of the world to audiences in his stage show. “Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild Live!” will make a stop at Rutland’s Paramount Theatre at 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12.
Scrag Mountain Music will begin the new year with a program of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, however, the first work on the program will be contemporary. “Situation,” a song from the larger work, “Song Cycle,” is by Matthew Ricketts, a Canadian-born composer who teaches at Columbi…
As 2019 opens, The Grange Hall Cultural Center is embarking on a busy winter season. Lots of theater performances and workshops are on the schedule, along with music, film, exhibitions, movement classes and more.
MOXIE Productions presents its third annual “One and Only” series celebrating solo performance at the Grange Hall Cultural Center Jan. 12-March 24. Six weekends of performances from theatrical storytelling to stand-up comedy to musicals, and almost everything in between, the series features …
Sure, we’re all still broke from the holidays, but it’s never too early to start planning for some hot music events this winter. Here’s a look at eight acts that are sure to liven up Vermont this month. Look for a preview of noteworthy February shows next week.
What is Mary Poppins? A witch? An alien? A trickster god? These were the questions rattling around my head while watching “Mary Poppins Returns,” the sequel to the 1964 Disney classic.
BRATTLEBORO – The new year brings new exhibits to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). “If she has a pulse she has a chance” and “Robert Perkins: Every Day” close on Monday. They will be replaced by “Open Call NXNE 2019: Paint,” BMAC’s annual juried exhibit, which opens Saturday, …
Previewing upcoming arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Comprehensive listings of public art exhibits, galleries and museums throughout the region.
On Nov. 27, Britain’s Prince Harry “cut the ribbon” on a new 250-seat theater, joining a school on the recently acquired property of Circus Zambia, a professional ensemble of former street kids helping today’s street kids. Behind it all is a Vermont theater professional and generous folks fr…
This year’s crop of Vermont-made CDs was small, but included several superb albums that deserved 2019 Tammie Awards, the annual Times Argus-Rutland Herald pop music honors.
Amid the plethora of best-album lists, we like to take a slightly different tack in looking back on the year in pop music. What follows is our highly biased list of noteworthy, most obsessed-over albums by artists who graced our fair little state with a live performance during 2018 — or will…
When Lou Scott made his first military diorama with his son Chris 35 years ago, he had no idea of where it would lead him. He has expanded well beyond this narrow theme, and the 150 dioramas on display at the B & G Gallery in downtown Rutland, just begin to scratch the surface of Scott’s…
Ann Young’s painting “Legacy” is among the large-scale oil paintings in her solo exhibition opening Jan. 3 at the Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. “Fellow Travelers” features recent work by Young, who lives in Barton.
From Gaagudju in Australia, whose last native speaker died in 2002, to the Cromarty dialect of Scots that died in the United Kingdom in 2012, to Nuchatlaht, which perished with Alban Michael in British Columbia in 2016 — languages around the world are disappearing. Of roughly 6,700 languages…
For the first time ever the Lyric Theatre Company and Vermont Symphony Orchestra are collaborating to present a New Year’s Eve Broadway spectacular in VSO's “Burlington Does Broadway.”
Sorry, bros. The future of film is female. According to a new report, films with women in the lead out-grossed male-led films at every budget level.
Previewing upcoming arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Previewing upcoming arts and entertainment events throughout the region.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, considered one of the supreme achievements in the history of music, became a worldwide message of peace when, on Christmas Day in 1989, an international group of musicians performed the work in Germany honoring the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Reid Brechner brings his ceramic art for a brief exhibit called “Sorry, But Hello” at the Castleton University Bank Gallery. Brechner, a painter and sculptor, studied art and mathematics, and he has sought to combine both disciplines in the work on display in Rutland now.
Live music has long been a popular pick for ringing in the New Year, and this year’s offerings deliver a plethora of compelling events. Here’s a look at some noteworthy options happening around the state.
If you aren’t staying in with Dick Clark this year, there are lots of music options happening in the Rutland area to ring in 2019.
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz of Northfield is one of Vermont’s most skilled and prolific composers. He has just been selected for the biennial Vermont Music Educators Association commission.
After nearly two decades of comic book adaptations, someone finally got it right. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is a triumph of animation — a vibrant, visually stunning kaleidoscope of action that perfectly translates the experience of reading a comic book to the big screen.
