AREA TOWNS – New Year’s Eve celebrations and events are happening in towns around Hardwick for those interested in traveling to spend the evening out. Ring in the New Year at Morrisville’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, December 31 beginning at 9 p.m. with party band, Lawless. The band includes[Read More…]
Entertainment
“A Christmas Carol” Entertains, Encourages Empathy
GREENSBORO – In four completely sold out shows the Civic Theater Project of the Civic Standard presented Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol,” in partnership with the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro last Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, in a brilliant performance that demonstrated the power of theater[Read More…]
“A Christmas Carol” with Willem Lange, through Dec. 31
ONLINE – Willem Lange’s reading of “A Christmas Carol” produced by Lost Nation Theatre (LNT) at City Hall Auditorium Arts Center in Montpelier has been recorded for on-demand viewing until December 31 at 11:59 p.m. Yankee storyteller Willem Lange was live on stage at Lost Nation Theater performing his reading[Read More…]
Twelfth Night Celebration, Jan. 3-4
CABOT – The annual 12th Night Celebration will take place in the village on Friday and Saturday, January 3 and January 4. The festival features an array of performing arts and activities for all ages. Twelve events are featured in three venues throughout the village, including concerts, dance, storytelling, theater,[Read More…]
Auditions for “The Little Mermaid,” Jan. 5, 11, 12
CABOT – Cabot Community Theater will hold auditions the first two weekends in January for the spring performance of “The Little Mermaid.” The production will need children, teens, and adults for parts both large and small. Auditions will be held January 5 and 11 or 12, in the afternoons, in[Read More…]
Schumann’s “The Christmas Story,” Dec. 20
GREENSBORO – Peter Schumann’s “The Christmas Story” will be presented Friday Dec. 20, 7 p.m., at the Greensboro United Church of Christ. The show, presented by The Bread and Puppet Theater, was created by Schumann in 1962 at a residency in Putney, and performed every year at Christmas time until[Read More…]
Holiday Tradition Returns to Old Meeting House, Dec. 21
EAST MONTPELIER – A holiday tradition, “Stories for a Winter’s Eve,” returns to the Old Meeting House in East Montpelier for its 13th year on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. The show features Mark Nash, Kathryn Blume, Patti Casey and Susannah Blachly[Read More…]
Winter Concert Includes Variety of Singers, Musicians
HARDWICK – The United Church of Hardwick opened the Christmas season with an all inclusive winter concert last Sunday afternoon, which featured a number of different singers and musicians as well as a clever bingo contest (with prizes!) and an amusing skit of “dancing knees.” (more later). The program began[Read More…]
Stage Reading of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Dec. 6
ST. JOHNSBURY – On Friday, Dec. 6, the holiday classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” comes to the Athenaeum Art Gallery, with performances at 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The stage reading will travel back to Christmas Eve, 1946, and experience the classic tale of desperation, hope, redemption and joy in[Read More…]
Lamoille County Players Present “Inherit the Wind”
HYDE PARK – Lamoille County Players’ 72nd season at the Hyde Park Opera House concludes with Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s “Inherit the Wind” which is based upon the real-life Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tenn. The town prosecuted a high school teacher for teaching evolution, which[Read More…]
Tidyman Photographs on Exhibit
ST. JOHNSBURY – Photography by St. Johnsbury native Jim Tidyman is on display in the Athenaeum Hall Gallery (second floor) through December. The artist reception with food and beverages will be Wednesday, Dec. 18, 5 to 7 p.m., in the Hall Gallery. Photography has been a lifelong hobby for Tidyman,[Read More…]
North Country Chorus Presents Holiday Concerts
ST. JOHNSBURY – The North Country Chorus presents its annual holiday concerts on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m,, and Sunday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m., at the United Community Church at 1325 Main St. in St. Johnsbury. Admission is by donation. Alan Rowe will direct the 70 singers of[Read More…]
