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| | The Town Hall Theater’s humble and magnanimous hosts (aka the summer interns) present:
Battle of the Bands
Thursday, July 30th at 7:30pm on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Watch the best bands Middlebury has to offer duke it out in this first iteration of THT’s Battle of the Bands.
DRINKS DRUMMERS DRAMA.
Organized by THT’s Middlebury College Summer Interns Max and Anna as seen on Instagram (@THTMIDD)
This Thursday night is going to be insane.
Here are just some the bands in contention:
- BINGO featuring Nolan Plummer (Bass), Zev Gold (Guitar), Nowale Nachula (Drums), Grace Ashford (Vocals), Amaya Norton-Scherer (Vocals)
- The Fukuda Brothers (Piano/Synth and Vocals)
- The Pledgers featuring Henry Bolch (Guitar), Ayele Gousseva (Bass)
- Meon Drums (Bass) featuring Anna Armstrong (drums)
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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 and FLŌRA Cannabis present:
Reggae Night
Featuring Apple Balm Sound and NauNau Beloha
Saturday, August 8 from 6 to 9pm outdoors on the Tilly Stage at the Maloney Plaza
The island vibes are coming to downtown Middlebury!
The evening will feature a collaborative live performance with Selecta D-Ro from Apple Balm Sound spinning a live DJ/dub set and singer/multi-instrumentalist NauNau Beloha performing a mix of originals and covers, filling the plaza with reggae rhythms for a laid-back summer night in the heart of town.
Food will be available for purchase from a Taste of Abyssinia, and a bar and lemonade stand will be on site for concertgoers of all ages.
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 Young Company Classical Presents:
Antigone
Friday, August 14 at 7pm
Saturday, August 15 at 2pm
Sunday, August 16 at 2pm
Directed by
Lindsay Pontius and Keziah Wilde
How shall we act? What must I do? What does it mean to be a human being?
For centuries Antigone, written by Sophocles around 440 BCE, has put these questions before an audience. The 16 member ensemble time travels, rocks out and cajoles the audience with humor and pathos bringing to life the world of ancient Greece and making it have meaning today.
About Young Company Classical
Young Company Classical is a three-week summer program where teens take on a classic play and perform it three times for a live audience. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Young Company, and Antigone is a fitting way to celebrate. There is something here for everyone. Music, dance, strong ensemble work, and roles that challenge the actors who take them on. Antigone is the Olympics of acting and a perfect play for young performers, with a hero who stands up to authority in a world turned upside down. The company works hard, has fun, and makes something that changes hearts and minds.
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| | 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 |
| | Bread + Puppet Present:
The Upside Down World Circus
At Middlebury College Snow Bowl
Saturday, September 5 at 3:30pm*
Note: Buy Tickets Early; Parking is Limited
*Brass band starts playing at 3:20pm
“Is it or is it not?
Am I asleep or am I awake?
Am I a cockroach or am I a me?
Possibilitarians! We must demonstrate humanity’s upside-down situation in the face of the government’s depraved falsehoods. Luxury silence and despair must be replaced by revolt orchestras that radically oppose the radically wrong system.
It is time to unforget the revolution-in-progress and aim for the evermore on the universe’s shore.”
The one and only Bread & Puppet Circus is back to confront our upside-down situation! With stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes, and a riotous brass band, The Upside Down World Circus is an urgent spectacle of protest and celebration.
After each show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.
All ticket proceeds benefit Bread and Puppet Theater and Town Hall Theater.
Bring chairs, picnics, and a sense of humor.
This year’s performance will be held At Middlebury College Snow Bowl 6886 Route 125, Hancock, VT 05748
Learn more about Bread & Puppethere. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater & Valley Stage Present:
Session Americana with Kris Delmhorst
Sunday, September 13 at 5:30pm on the historic Rothrock Mainstage
Relax at candlelit cabaret tables or settle into traditional theater seating for an intimate, raucous evening featuring original music and works from throughout the American Songbook. The bar will be open throughout the night.
SESSION AMERICANA is a Boston based cast of top-shelf players, singers, and writers who tour internationally, taking their own songs, plus hundreds more from the American songbook, on the road. You’ll be a part of the intimate, raucous scene these players built years ago with one simple credo— access the joy. And with friend and collaborator Kris Delmhorst playing in the band, that joy has never been more apparent. A rock band in a teacup or a folk band in a whiskey bottle? Take your pick. Swapping instruments, trading off lead vocals and sharing songwriting credits, Session Americana is constantly exploring new collaborations and touring like a band out of time.
The show runs in our cabaret configuration: tables for four mixed with riser seating.
THT's bar will be open throughout the evening, offering cocktails, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages. | 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 |
| | Middlebury Acting Company Presents:
Tartuffe
by Molière
Directed by Melissa Lourie
November 5-8 & 12-15
Presented by Middlebury Acting Company, Town Hall Theater's professional resident theater company, delivering playful, intimate and conversation sparking productions since 2001.
Middlebury Acting Company drags Tartuffe out of 17th-century Paris and drops him straight into the granite-countered, three-car-garage chaos of nouveau-riche New England — and he fits right in. This razor-sharp modern staging trades powdered wigs for velour tracksuits, proving that religious hypocrisy, family dysfunction, and a con man's uncanny ability to talk his way into someone else's house never go out of style. Molière wrote the original influencer scam; we just gave him a Range Rover and a home gym. Come watch a 350-year-old comedy feel like it was written for 21st Century America. | Reserve Tickets |
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