HYDE PARK – The Lamoille County Players’ 73rd season at the Hyde Park Opera House concludes with Ken Jones’s “Scrooge’s Christmas,” directed by Nathaniel Beyer. In Ken Jones’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic tale, “A Christmas Carol”, a group of actors portray all the characters of this Christmas tradition. The[Read More…]
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Vermont Suitcase’s “Wenceslas” back at Opera House, Dec. 20
PLAINFIELD – The Vermont Suitcase Company brings “The Continuing Adventures of King Wenceslas and his page Edith” to the Plainfield Opera House, Saturday, Dec. 20, at 7 p.m. This play delves deep between the stanzas of the Christmas carol, with physical comedy, stage magic and puppets, all performed by four[Read More…]
Grand Kyiv Ballet performs “Nutcracker,” Dec. 10
LYNDONVILLE – Ukraine’s Grand Kyiv Ballet will present two performances of “The Nutcracker,” December 10 and December 11, at 7 p.m., at Lyndon Institute. The Grand Kyiv Ballet is an independent touring ballet company of 30 Ukrainian dancers, some of whom are temporarily operating from the International Ballet Academy in[Read More…]
Heartwood’s “Well Tree” at the Highland Center for the Arts, Nov. 7
GREENSBORO – “The Well Tree,” an original storytelling musical illustrated by the moving scroll of a crankie was performed by Heartwood at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro on the evening of November 7. The trio of singers and instrumentalists were Willy Clemetson from Belfast, Maine, Heidi Wilson[Read More…]
“One Family in Gaza”, Nov. 28
ST. JOHNSBURY – The Catamount Arts Center will present an original play by Crystal Zevon Friday, November 28, at 4 p.m., at 115 Eastern Ave. The play is based on extensive correspondence between Zevon and a young Palestinian family. It chronicles the lived experience of Yasser, his family’s attempt to[Read More…]
Illusionist Leon Etienne at the BOH, Nov. 15
BARRE – Illusionist Leon Etienne will perform his “Magic Rocks” show at the Barre Opera House on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. Etienne has been featured on “America’s Got Talent,” “Penn & Teller: Fool Us!,” “Masters of Illusion” and “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” The show is immersive and[Read More…]
“A Wedding Tale,” a hilarious journey of mishaps
HARDWICK – A perfect young couple deeply in love holds a perfect wedding: what could possibly go amiss? Evidently they had never read Robert Burns poem about “The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray.” Or, more importantly, ever heard of Murphy’s Law, “If something can go[Read More…]
“The Well Tree” crankie performed Nov. 7
GREENSBORO – Heartwood will present “The Well Tree,” a participatory musical journey illustrated with a crankie, on Friday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. at the Highland Center for the Arts. The show is an illuminated hand-cranked scroll made by papercut artist Jennifer Jones. The three members of Heartwood, Heidi Wilson,[Read More…]
Lamoille County Players presents “The 39 Steps” in Oct.
HYDE PARK – Lamoille County Players’ 73rd season at the Hyde Park Opera House continues with John Buchan’s “The 39 Steps,” directed by Heather Mandigo. In the play, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her[Read More…]
Sketch comedians come to Fuller Hall, Oct. 4
ST. JOHNSBURY – The KCP Presents Performing Arts Series presents Chicago’s Second City at to St. Johnsbury Academy’s Fuller Hall, October 4, at 7 p.m. The Second City performs its trademark brand of sketch comedy. The company opened its doors on a Chicago night in December of 1959, and a[Read More…]
The Bread and Puppet Theater presents “Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress” Circus
GLOVER – The Bread & Puppet Theater is taking its circus to cities and towns in the US Northeast and Midwest September 1 to October 14. The company presents Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses[Read More…]
