HYDE PARK–The Lamoille County Players are currently performing the highly-entertaining musical comedy, “The Addams Family Musical,” at the Hyde Park Opera House, with a superlative cast who combine beautiful voices with professional acting skills. Inspired by the hilarious cartoons of Charles Addams that appeared for decades in the New Yorker[Read More…]
Reviews
“Hamlet,” as good as Shakespeare gets
PLAINFIELD – “Hamlet,” the first of three Shakespeare plays to be presented in the Green Mountain Shakespeare Festival this summer, was performed last weekend by the Plainfield Little Theater at the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, under the excellent direction of Tom Blachly. This work has a number of antecedents[Read More…]
Historical society opens Chamber Players exhibit
CRAFTSBURY – Last Saturday afternoon, June 6, the Craftsbury Historical Society had an opening for its summer exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Craftsbury Chamber Players. The program began with Peter Nelson, the new co-chair of the society (along with Ned Houston), talking about current activities of the members,[Read More…]
Local Folk Orchestra receives standing ovation
GREENSBORO – The Local Folk Orchestra returned to the Highland Center for the Arts for their spring concert last Saturday evening with a delightfully varied program of classical, folk, ethnic and original compositions, playing to a completely packed house, which indicates how much their popularity has grown since being founded[Read More…]
Drama club gives enthusiastic “Peter Pan” performance
GREENSBORO, CRAFTSBURY – The Craftsbury Academy Drama Club gave a very enthusiastic performance of “Peter Pan, A New Musical Adaptation,” created, directed and choreographed by Taryn Noelle, at the Highland Center for the Arts, Thursday, May 7, and Friday, May 8, to near-capacity audiences. This play was first performed in[Read More…]
Disciplined youth symphony creates beauty
GREENSBORO – The Green Mountain Youth Symphony, now in its twenty-fifth season, gave an impressive concert at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro last Saturday evening, featuring works by Telemann, Dvorak, with a specially commissioned piece in the first half of the program and four movie music selections[Read More…]
Schumann’s career, theater, highlighted on film
GREENSBORO – The world premier of a new documentary film about Peter Schumann, “An Artist Responds to War: Peter Schumann and the Bread and Puppet Theatre” was given its showing last Sunday afternoon at the Highland Center for the Arts. Created by filmmaker Robbie Leppzer over the past nine years, it[Read More…]
Young circus artists display amazing talents
GREENSBORO – The New England Center for Circus Arts from Brattleboro spent all of last week in a residency at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, giving a sample of circus skills for local children on Wednesday and a full performance on Friday afternoon. This was the first[Read More…]
“Pippin” fast-moving, great stage presence
HYDE PARK – The current spring production of the Lamoille County Players at the Hyde Park Opera House is the steam punk musical, “Pippin,” in a fast-moving performance with spectacular group dancing and great stage presence in their singing and acting by the two principal characters, Pippin and the Leading[Read More…]
O’Brien’s debut album inspired by social work and nature
PLAINFIELD – As a social worker and singer-songwriter, Jess O’Brien draws inspiration from her community, emphasizing the importance of shared human experience. “The work of serving others in this time of great need feels very much in alignment with where I am as an artist right now,” O’Brien said. In[Read More…]
“Crooners” is world-class
GREENSBORO – Last Thursday evening the Highland Center for the Arts hosted a show of The Great American Crooners, performed by a group entitled Jazz at Lincoln Center, from New York City. This world-class band of seven excellent musicians presented tunes from the “American Song Book” popularized by such singers[Read More…]
Gould discusses new novel
HARDWICK – Peter Gould came to the Jeudevine Library on the evening of April 7 and gave an insightful talk about his new young adult novel, “Red Nose Girl.” Initially set in a small town in Vermont, it is about an independent 15-year-old girl, Lettie, who frequently wears a clown nose[Read More…]
