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| | Vermont Book Shop Presents:
Stephen Kiernan on:
Pollock's Last Lover : A Novel of Art and Deception
Thursday, May 28 at 6:30 PM in the Anderson Studio.
Cocktail Hour: 5:30-6:30 PM
Book Talk: 6:30-7:30 PM
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Vermont Bookshop presents a conversation with Stephen Kiernan on his new engrossing tale of two women whose lives collide as they contend with the art and legacy of the brilliant, tragic painter Jackson Pollock.
In 2006, Sotheby’s sells a painting by Jackson Pollock for $140 million—the highest sum ever paid for a work of art. Two weeks later, an older woman named Ruth Kligman, in high heels and a dusty fascinator, contacts a smaller, less prominent auction house to announce that she was Pollock’s lover, and that he gave her his last painting. She declares that it was selfish to keep it in her apartment for fifty years, and that people should see this masterpiece in galleries and museums the world over. The bidding will start at $50 million.
Gwen, an up-and-coming associate at the firm, is assigned the task of verifying the painting’s authenticity. For Gwen, an ambitious woman in a field often dominated by men, it is her biggest project yet. And the company must have absolute certainty. Yet each step of the investigation raises larger questions—about Ruth’s cunning climb in the art world, and even about what caused Pollock’s sudden and violent death.
What follows, in alternating chapters and time periods, is a multigenerational portrait of women’s ambition set against the life and work of Jackson Pollock. From smoky Greenwich Village dive bars to glitzy art auctions, from the empty studio of a man once known for his artistic stamina to the fine museums where his works hang, Ruth’s controversial painting provides a window into two eras—and the ongoing struggle of women to develop power and freedom on their own terms.
This event is presented in partnership with Town Hall Theater. | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Saturday, May 30 at 1:00pm in the Anderson Studio
Pre-show talk at 12:15pm
by Alejandro Roca in the Anderson Studio theater. Roca is the artistic director of the OCM Young Artist program and lecturer in music at the Yale School of Music. (Free with ticket purchase)
Estimated Run Time:
2 hrs 50 mins, with one intermission
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater presents:
5 Fridays Concert Series
Dwight + Nicole Band
Friday, June 5 from 5:00 to 6:30pm outdoors on the Tilly Stage at the Maloney Plaza
The series kicks off with two of New England's most celebrated voices in blues and soul.
The 5 Fridays Concert Series brings free outdoor music to Maloney Plaza on the first Friday of each month from June through October, made possible by a generous grant.
Dwight Ritcher and Nicole Nelson don't fit cleanly into one genre. Their sound moves through blues, R&B, and soul, with roots rock, alternative, and Americana woven in. Live, two voices anchor everything, and the band is built around them.
The duo has racked up nominations at the Boston Music Awards, the New England Music Awards, and Vermont's Daysies, with multiple wins for vocal performance and best blues/R&B act. Nicole Nelson is also nationally known from her appearance on NBC's The Voice.
Good Times Co. charcuterie and THT bar offerings will be available for purchase.
Bring a chair or a blanket. A limited number of folding chairs will be available.
Rain plan: the concert will be rescheduled in the event of rain. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Opera Company of Middlebury Presents:
Verdi's
LA TRAVIATA
June 5–13, 2026
on the Rothrock Main Stage
7:30pm on June 5 & 11
2:00pm on June 7 & 13
Pre-performance talks are held one hour before each show in the new wing at Town Hall Theater. These talks are free and open to all ticket holders.
June 5, Opening Night: Prosecco reception follows the performance. All are welcome. Non-alcoholic option available.
Stage director Douglas Anderson sets the opera in the 1920s, casting Violetta as a contemporary woman taking control of her life and refusing to be hemmed in by social norms or the men surrounding her. The Roaring Twenties were a pivotal time when women challenged convention. "They broke every taboo," says Anderson, "wearing short skirts, cutting their hair, drinking and smoking in public. They wanted to shock the world out of its Victorian complacency."
Traviata contains some of the most profound, moving and heartfelt music ever composed and continues to reveal new depths each time you return to it.
Orchestra conducted by Maestro Filippo Ciabatti.
Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Visit the OCM website at ocmvermont.org for more information about the opera, bios of the singers and music listening suggestions. | Reserve Tickets |
| | The Opera Company of Middlebury Young Artist Program Presents:
The U.S. Premiere of Xavier Montsalvatge's
BABEL 46
Friday, June 12, 2026 at 7:30pm
Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 2pm
Join our talented group of Spring 2026 Young Artists in the Doug & Debby Anderson Studio in THT's new wing for Babel 46. Composed in the 1960s and premiered in 1994, Babel 46 unfolds in a refugee camp in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. As displaced inmates await repatriation, each clings to an elaborate story designed to conceal a painful or dangerous truth. They sing in their own languages - Italian, French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Hebrew - forming a modern Tower of Babel where fractured identities collide. Raw, immediate, and deeply human, this gripping “neo-verismo” drama reflects the composer’s admiration for Giacomo Puccini, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Benjamin Britten, blending lyrical intensity with stark theatrical realism. With English supertitles, accompanied by piano and conducted by Alejandro Roca.
CONTENT ADVISORY: This production contains depictions of violence and suicide, and may not be suitable for younger audiences.
ARTISTIC TEAM:
Sarah Cullins, OCM Director of Education & Outreach
Alejandro Roca, YAP Artistic Director
Pat Diamond, YAP Guest Stage Director
Meet the cast and learn more about our Young Artist Program here.
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| | Supporting Recovery, Strengthening Community
June 18 from 6-8 PM in the historic Rothrock Main Stage Theater.
The Turning Point Center of Addison County (TPCAC) invites community members to a free event celebrating the power of recovery.
The evening will be moderated by Jane Lindholm of Vermont Public and feature a panel of community members representing people in active recovery, recovery professionals, family members, law enforcement, healthcare, and public policy.
This gathering will also include a short film highlighting the stories of addiction, recovery, and resilience happening right here in Addison County, followed by Q&A session to foster open dialogue and deepen community understanding. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about current substance use and treatment trends, the challenges our neighbors are facing, and the collaborative, peer-led solutions emerging across the County and State.
Together, we hope to raise awareness, inspire participation, and strengthen the network of support that helps individuals and families thrive and live productive and fulfilling lives. We look forward to welcoming those who believe in building a healthier, more connected Addison County!
This is a free event with pre-registration encouraged. | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Eugene Onegin
Saturday, June 20 at 1:00pm* in the Anderson Studio
Pre-show talk at 12:15pm
by Nathaniel Lew in the Anderson Studio. Choral conductor and musicologist Nathaniel G. Lew is OCM Chorus Master, Artistic Director of the Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble, and Professor Emeritus of Music at Saint Michael's College. (Free with ticket purchase)
Estimated Run Time:
4 hrs 15 mins, with two intermissions
*Please note, this is an encore screening and will not be shown live.
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). Timur Zangiev has his debut conducting at the Met. | Reserve Tickets |
| | The Cutting Edge by Middlebury Acting Company Presents:
"Darwin in Malibu"
By Crispin Whittell
Sunday, June 28 at 4pm
In the Anderson Studio
Presented by Middlebury Acting Company, Town Hall Theater's professional resident theater company, delivering playful, intimate and conversation sparking productions since 2001.
Darwin sits on the deck of a Malibu beach house. With him is Sarah, who makes him banana and strawberry shakes. Up pops the bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, and Darwin's friend and champion Thomas Huxley, both also long dead and buried.
But the experience of life and death, love and loss, means that previously held certainties are now uncertainties. Once you know something - whether it is about DNA or what your boyfriend did last night - nothing is ever quite the same again.
Directed By Cheryl Faraone
CAST
Gary Smith
Kevin Commins
Matthew Cox
Michole Biancosino
THE CUTTING EDGE: AN OFF-BROADWAY PLAY READING SERIES
In 2017 MACo inaugurated The Cutting Edge Staged Play Reading Series, curated and directed by Rebecca Strum. The Cutting Edge Series offers three contemporary, relevant, intelligent staged readings featuring top Vermont actors, followed by lively talk-backs each year, and has proven to be very popular with our audiences. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater presents:
5 Fridays Concert Series
Block Party: 5 Above + Redd & The Paper Flowers
An America 250 Celebration
Friday, July 3 from 3pm to 8pm outdoors on the Tilly Stage at the Maloney Plaza
Two acts, five hours of music, and a bike parade.
The 5 Fridays Concert Series brings free outdoor music to Maloney Plaza on the first Friday of each month from June through October, made possible by a generous grant.
This block party is funded by a National Endowment for the Arts grant and built around two distinct sets that span chamber music to Appalachian folk-grass.
At 3pm, 5 Above opens the afternoon. The woodwind ensemble from Vermont's Own 40th Army Band performs a chamber music program titled "Heroes: A Musical Journey of Courage."
At 5:30pm, Redd & The Paper Flowers take the stage. The Knoxville, Tennessee folk-grass group brings upright bass, cello, mandolin, guitar, and strong vocal harmonies to a tradition rooted in Appalachian music.
A festive bike parade rounds out the day.
Food trucks, Good Times Co. charcuterie, and bar offerings will be available for purchase.
Bring a chair or a blanket. A limited number of folding chairs will be available.
Rain plan: the event moves indoors to the Anderson Studio. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Point CounterPoint Benefit Foundation Concert with Diana Fanning
Thursday, July 23 at 7:30 PM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Pianist Diana Fanning returns to Town Hall Theater with members of the Point CounterPoint faculty for an evening of chamber music to benefit the Point CounterPoint Foundation.
The program features Falla's Suite Populaire Espagnole, Lutosławski's String Quartet, and Ravel's Piano Trio, performed by Fanning alongside current PCP faculty Ari Streisfeld and Holly Workman (violin), Samuel Kelder (viola), Jennifer Carpenter and Julia Henderson (cello), Johnna Wu (violin), and David Shimoni (piano).
About the Point CounterPoint Foundation
Point CounterPoint is a chamber music summer camp for young musicians on Lake Dunmore. For more than sixty years, it has combined serious musical study with traditional summer camp life. Diana Fanning and her husband, Emory, owned and ran the camp for a decade. Proceeds from this concert support the Point CounterPoint Foundation, which is a nonprofit organization established in 2024 to support the long-term future of Point CounterPoint. To learn more, visit: https://pointcp.com/point-counterpoint-foundation.
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| | Town Hall Theater presents:
5 Fridays Concert Series
Atom & the Orbits
Friday, August 7 from 5:30 to 7pm outdoors on the Tilly Stage at the Maloney Plaza
A Vermont band built for dancing brings groove-heavy Americana and rock to the plaza.
The 5 Fridays Concert Series brings free outdoor music to Maloney Plaza on the first Friday of each month from June through October, made possible by a generous grant.
Atom & the Orbits is led by Vermont musician Noah Hahn. After a decade of playing in two-step bands from Vermont to Louisiana, Hahn assembled the band as what he calls a "rocket ship" for a bigger sound. The result fuses groove-driven Americana, rock, and roots rhythms into something built for movement.
Expect a summer show more interested in getting people up than sitting them down.
Good Times Co. charcuterie and bar offerings will be available for purchase.
Bring a chair or a blanket. A limited number of folding chairs will be available.
Rain plan: the concert moves indoors to the Anderson Studio. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater presents:
5 Fridays Concert Series
Block Party: Billy Wylder, DJ Serena Kim, & More Surprises
Friday, September 4 from 3 to 8pm outdoors on the Tilly Stage at the Maloney Plaza
Five hours of music with a Burlington art-rock headliner, a beloved local DJ, and more surprises still in store.
The 5 Fridays Concert Series brings free outdoor music to Maloney Plaza on the first Friday of each month from June through October, made possible by a generous grant.
Billy Wylder is a Burlington, Vermont art-rock band led by singer-songwriter Avi Salloway. The band's sound pulls from American folk and rock, African rhythms, art-rock textures, violins, synths, and groove-heavy percussion. The influences trace back to Salloway's years touring with Tuareg guitarist Bombino and to stages including Coachella, Newport Folk Festival, and Carnegie Hall.
Salloway also created the All Rivers project, a cross-cultural musical collaboration that recently sold out at the Flynn Center in Burlington.
DJ Serena Kim is a Middlebury favorite. Co-owner of the Swift House Inn, she's been one of the most in-demand DJs in town, with sets at Town Hall Theater, Crooked Ladle, and the Henry Sheldon Museum. Before settling here, she was one of the first female club DJs in New York City in the 1990s, sharing stages with Mark Ronson, Q-Tip, and Kool Herc.
More acts and surprises are still in the works. Check back closer to the date for updates.
Food trucks, Good Times Co. charcuterie, and bar offerings will be available for purchase.
Bring a chair or a blanket. A limited number of folding chairs will be available.
Rain plan: the event moves indoors to the historic Rothrock Main Stage. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater presents:
5 Fridays Concert Series
Aysanabee
Friday, October 2 from 5:30 to 7pm outdoors on the Tilly Stage at the Maloney Plaza
A four-time Juno Award winner closes the series with haunting indie-folk and one of contemporary music's most distinctive voices.
The 5 Fridays Concert Series brings free outdoor music to Maloney Plaza on the first Friday of each month from June through October, made possible by a generous grant.
Aysanabee is an Oji-Cree singer-songwriter from Canada whose music sits at the intersection of alternative, indie-folk, and rock. In 2024, he became the first Indigenous artist to win Juno Awards for Alternative Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. In 2026, he won two more, for Alternative Album of the Year and Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year, for Edge of the Earth.
Songs like "Nomads," "Somebody Else," "We Were Here," and "Edge of the Earth" have brought him an international audience. His live shows move from full-band energy to quiet, close-in moments. His recent EP Timelines features stripped-back acoustic versions of songs from his catalog.
Good Times Co. charcuterie and bar offerings will be available for purchase.
Bring a chair or a blanket. A limited number of folding chairs will be available.
Rain plan: the concert moves indoors to the Anderson Studio. | Reserve Tickets |
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