Taconic Music, the only Vermont music festival to present indoor in-person concerts last summer, is returning for its fifth year June 14-July 12 to Manchester’s Burr and Burton Academy.

Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta “Candide” is based on Voltaire’s 1759 satirical novella of the same name. Leaving an idyllic youthful lifestyle, Candide journeys through a slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences the real world. And it’s very funny.

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” the 1987 parody by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, that presents 37 Shakespeare plays in 97 minutes, can be ridiculously funny — but only if it’s done with unusually deft comic skill.

When I first viewed Phil Whitman’s painting, “Ned Drawing in my Office,” I knew that I wanted to interview him. The sense of intense concentration on the child’s face drew me in completely and made me curious about the artist behind the portrait.

In the beginning, the lines were straight. As straight as steel, before a storm blew through strong enough to bend it. Years later, on a river bank in Brattleboro, artist Tim Mahurin gathered the pieces of industrial buildings and equipment left by Tropical Storm Irene. Some had been bent by…

The new juried open-call collage show “Neuroanatomy” is on display through June 27, curated by collage artist W. David Powell, using a broad definition of the medium.

With today’s announcement by Marlboro Music Festival, and last week’s by the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, Vermont’s performing arts mark a return to some sort of normalcy.

Marlboro Music Festival opened ticket sales to the public for its 2021 season of in-person indoor concerts — but it didn’t look as if that could happen.

With the lead voice of Jed Hughes growling and rumbling its way through 11 tracks, a resonator guitar providing lead lines and a bass-drum combo pounding out a solid rhythm, the band Saints & Liars has produced an impressive sophomore recording. Here’s a band that could gain national rec…

These are some of the diverse stories to be told in the fourthcoming White River Indie Films Festival, which will run May 21-30 outdoors in White River Junction, and everywhere online.

CHITTENDEN — What we throw away, and how, has changed over the past two decades. Few know that better than Elmer Wheeler.

Titled “Fields of Vision: The Private Collection of Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason,” the Christie’s auction will feature works by some of the world’s most distinguished artists.

For Jeannie Podolak, it was the moon. For Daniel Brett, beetles. The symbols that spoke to them as points of inspiration during the year of lockdown came out in their work — signs that life was still breathing under the heavy cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In lieu of the VSO Summer Festival Tour, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra is accelerating ever so carefully away from COVID19 into full symphonic concerts at Burlington’s Flynn Center for the Performing Arts this fall and the initiation of its music director auditions. In the meantime, the VSO…

The theme "Expressions of Me” turned out a variety of interpretations from the students — a sunset sky burning hot pink, tempered with birch trees; a collection of animals at a lake; a faceless girl, her hair an exclamation point of blue flames. Some were already sold on opening night.

From a young age, Alex Stefurak knew he wanted to serve his country. This fall, he’ll get the chance.

It’s a testament to artists’ unique way of looking at the world and seeing potential in unexpected places that a string of empty and occupied storefronts in downtown Rutland became an outdoor art museum.

Windham County’s Next Stage Arts Project, based in Putney, has planned a program of concerts and shows that’s both eclectic and diverse. Beginning May 1, the Bandwagon Summer Series runs into October with 20 different shows.

Actor Ron Crawford’s odyssey as Mark Twain began many years ago when a stage designer at Dorset Theatre Festival told him he looked like America’s quintessential and irascible author — and convinced Crawford to do a short monologue for a fundraiser.

A black-and-white photo installation going up in the Vermont Farmers Food Center on West Street in Rutland is the beginning piece in a series of stories that take a deeper look into our local community, agriculture and history, giving a voice to many untold stories.

Vermont’s ski resorts lost an estimated $100 million this winter.

This is part of a series of articles focused on the area nonprofit community and the impact on our region.

“Tosca,” Giacomo Puccini’s opera of power and sexual passion, needs a soprano of beauty, power and temperament in the title role. Add to those requirements, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, Barn Opera sought a singer of color.

On Monday, April 19, the Brattleboro arts organization Epsilon Spires will begin a two-week virtual screening of the film “The Substance: Albert Hofmann’s LSD” in honor of the chemist’s first experience with and accidental discovery of the hallucinogen while riding his bicycle home from the …

Last year after the pandemic hit and people all over the world started working virtually, musicians Jay and Helen Taylor moved their thriving music teaching business based in Alabama online. Soon after, they realized it freed them up in a way they weren’t expecting — virtual was viable and c…

B. Amore vividly remembers the moment she began making art again nearly five decades ago. She had two children, little money and precious little free time. But she hungered to try carving and had just been given a block of redwood by a sculpture teacher. Sitting on the floor of her Boston ap…

The Putney School Summer Arts curriculum ranges from painting to photography, animation, dance, poetry, and anything in between. The criteria to attend: passion and curiosity.

A lodger arrives at a London boarding house as news of a murderer sweeps through the city. He fits the description — but is he guilty?

As societies around the world continue to confront and acknowledge their troubled histories of mistreating Indigenous Peoples, land acknowledgements are becoming increasingly common.

BRANDON — The sidewalks along Union Street are in rough shape, to the point where the residents of the small assisted-living home there can’t use their wheelchairs on it.

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra addresses the moment in the latest edition of “Music for Days Like This,” its online program mixing the traditional with the unexpected.

After canceling their 2020 summer season as consequence of COVID-19, Vermont’s preeminent summer theaters, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company and Dorset Theatre, are coming through with in-person 2021 seasons.

There’s a new clerk in West Haven. That may not seem like such a change in the little town with about 250 residents, but Town Clerk Carol Richards has just stepped down after 52 years, and she said her predecessor, Alta Brown, put in about 50 years as well.

When you walk into the Chaffee Art Center, the history and the art consume you. Also, you will see Sherri Berkheimer Rooker and her dog Luigi running the art center. Originally from Wells, Rooker has dedicated many years to Art in the Park and now is executive director of Chaffee Art Center.…

Manchester Music Festival, after its virtual 2020 season, is returning to Southern Vermont Arts Center’s Arkell Pavilion for a full-scale in-person season this year.

Years ago when he was in high school, Peter Wallis volunteered at the Chaffee Art Center. It was his first experience around real artists, and it helped him to believe he could have a career in the arts. He returned during graduate school as the education director, and today exhibits all ove…

Since closing to the public last March at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, Rutland’s Wonderfeet Kids Museum has been working to keep connected with local families.

Vermonters were simply unwilling to let go of the 50-year-old springtime tradition called Green Up Day that spruces up our communities, even during the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

The historic Brandon Inn has a new owner.

ORWELL — Classrooms can be bustling and, occasionally, frenetic spaces under even the best conditions. Add in anxieties brought about by the coronavirus pandemic and they become even more stressful.

“There’s a magical connection and it just made sense to let it flow on this project,” said renowned Los Angeles guitarist Val McCallum about his songwriting collaboration with central Vermont musician Bow Thayer on “Beau Bow de Lune,” a new album that also features A-list L.A. producer and m…

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