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| | National Public Radio Presents:
The Moth
Tuesday, September 15. Doors at 6:30pm, StorySLAM at 7pm
Tickets must be purchased directly through the Moth's website starting three weeks before the show here.
Listen to true stories or share your own at this open-mic storytelling competition. The event will be recorded, with select stories potentially broadcast by The Moth Radio Hour on National Public Radio. The Moth at THT is part of a biannual series raising the voices of local storytellers.
Tonight's theme…
NINE TO FIVE: Prepare a five-minute story about being on the clock. First jobs and corporate climbing. Dream gigs, survival work, side hustles. Water cooler gossip, awkward HR meetings. Burning the midnight oil or goofing off on the company dime. Passion projects that fuel you or counting the minutes until happy hour. Is it your calling? Or just a paycheck? Punch in. Punch out. Repeat. What a way to make a livin’!
Would you like some expert guidance before you tell your story? Enroll in a Moth storytelling workshop at Town Hall Theater on Saturday, September 12 from 2:30pm-5:30pm, led by the Moth's Vermont producer Susanne Schmidt. Register here.
Tickets go on sale three weeks before the show, here.
Need some courage to tell your story? The THT bar will be open before the show and during intermission – and the MOTH events at Town Hall Theater have featured a consistently supportive crowd.
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| | Town Hall Theater presents:
Vermont at the Midterm Moment:
A Conversation with State Leaders
Saturday, September 19 from 10:30am to 12pm on the historic Rothrock Main Stage.
This public forum brings together four of Vermont’s key elected officials for a midterm‑year discussion on statewide priorities and the issues shaping Vermont’s future.
Confirmed participants include:
- Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas
- Congresswoman Becca Balint
- Attorney General Charity Clark
- State Senator Ruth Hardy
Organized by local youth organizer Rafaela Botti, the event invites Vermonters of all ages to hear directly from state leaders about their work over the past year and their perspectives at this midterm point. The program will begin with brief reflections from each official, followed by a moderated conversation featuring questions from Addison County’s Summer Social Justice Camp and community members. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Better Middlebury Partnership / Experience Middlebury presents:
By Candlelight:
An Evening of Séance
Saturday, September 19 at 6:30pm
Ages 21+
In the historic vaulted hall beneath the National Bank of Middlebury Duclos Building
The candles are lit. The hall awaits.
Step beneath the streets of downtown Middlebury for one mysterious night as the historic bank opens its doors. Inspired by Vermont's 19th-century Spiritualist movement, this immersive fundraiser invites the curious, the skeptical, and the believers alike to step beyond the veil.
The evening weaves together history, storytelling, and mystical tradition. Special guest Eva Garcelon-Hart shares insights into Vermont's Spiritualist past through the collections of the Henry Sheldon Museum, while practitioners from around the state open the door to séances, divination, and the unexplained. Tarot and intuitive readings will be available during the course of the evening.
Dress to embrace the occasion: Victorian elegance, gothic glamour, mysterious mediums, or simply your finest black attire. Think Gilded Age or early 20th century Downton Abbey. The more you lean in, the more fun you'll have.
Your ticket includes fare from Crooked Ladle, with a curated cocktail, wine, and beer bar open throughout the evening.
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| | Young Masters Series Featuring Ben & Romy Munkres
Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 7:00pm in the Anderson Studio
Enjoy Mark Sustic’s curated Young Masters Series featuring Romy and Ben Munkres. This sibling duo grew up playing music all over the Champlain Valley, fostered by the many wonderful musicians and traditions in this part of the state. They love to play for listeners and dancers alike and explore different fiddle traditions throughout North America and Europe, including Celtic, Scandinavian, and Appalachian music. They like to follow their curiosity and have fun with their music while remaining connected to their New England roots. Don’t miss these stellar emerging artists who are the definition of Young Masters. | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas: An Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, September 20 at 1pm* in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
2 hrs 30 mins, with one intermission
*This is an encore screening and will not be shown live.
Celebrate the Met’s two decades of onstage glory as experienced in movie theaters, featuring highlights from the company’s collection of more than 185 extraordinary onscreen performances. Hosted by star soprano Renée Fleming, this special presentation will showcase unforgettable moments from some of opera’s greatest stars, culled from the series’ vast archive of transmissions. FEATURING Renée Fleming, Lise Davidsen, Nadine Sierra, Natalie Dessay, Sondra Radvanovsky, Joyce DiDonato, Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Peter Mattei, and more | Reserve Tickets |
| | Opera Company of Middlebury presents:
Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies
On the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Wednesday, September 23
6:30 PM Festival Opening Reception
7:30 PM Film
Join OCM Artistic Director Doug Anderson for his opening remarks about this timely festival and its celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit. The reception will be followed by the screening of this powerful documentary exploring Dmitri Shostakovich's wartime symphonies against the backdrop of Stalin's Soviet Union. Weaving together remarkable archival footage, moving personal testimony, and stirring performances, this acclaimed film examines how Shostakovich's wartime symphonies have come to symbolize artistic courage and resilience in the face of totalitarian rule.
About Opera Company of Middlebury
Opera Company of Middlebury is a foundational resident company of Town Hall Theater. They have a 20+ year history in Middlebury, and are committed to continuing to deliver world class opera with an approach that is fresh, innovative, relevant, and forward-thinking. Visit the OCM website at ocmvermont.org for more information about the opera, bios of the singers and music listening suggestions. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Opera Company of Middlebury presents:
OCM Festival String Quartet
with mezzo-soprano Claire McCahan & baritone Adam Richardson
On the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Thursday, September 24
6:30 PM Pre-talk: Dr. Danielle Simon
7:30 PM Concert
Join OCM Board Member and Middlebury College musicologist Dr. Danielle Simon for an enlightening pre-concert talk, followed by our inaugural chamber music concert guided by Music Director Filippo Ciabatti.
Featuring the OCM Festival String Quartet: Concertmaster Brooke Quiggins, violin; Joana Genova, violin; Stefanie Taylor, viola; and John Dunlop, cello, and joined by soloists from the Rappahannock County production, the program explores this year's festival theme, Music in Troubled Times, through works that illuminate composers living under oppressive regimes, characters confronting profound personal struggles, and music that embodies tension, resilience, and hope.
The program spans beloved masterpieces by Bach, Purcell, Schumann, and Shostakovich, alongside works by Rebecca Clarke and acclaimed American composers Jessie Montgomery, Shelley Washington, and George Walker. The concert also features arrangements by distinguished Vermont composers Matthew LaRocca and Kyle Saulnier.
About Opera Company of Middlebury
Opera Company of Middlebury is a foundational resident company of Town Hall Theater. They have a 20+ year history in Middlebury, and are committed to continuing to deliver world class opera with an approach that is fresh, innovative, relevant, and forward-thinking. Visit the OCM website at ocmvermont.org for more information about the opera, bios of the | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater Presents:
The Loop: The Conversations Trio
A Jazz & Poetry Improvisation
Friday, September 25
5pm: Cocktail Hour
6pm: Jazz and Poetry
Have you ever wanted to be part of the artistic process? The third installment of The Loop series invites audiences to step inside a dynamic, immersive jazz and poetry improvisation with The Conversations Trio, featuring musicians Bill Vitek (piano) and Ron White (bass), with poet Burnham Holmes.
A cocktail hour in the Jean’s Place Lounge begins at 5pm, and the cabaret-style performance with table and general seating begins at 6p.
“The art of jazz starts when the thinking stops,” - Bill Vitek.
Author of 17 books and deeply steeped in jazz history, Burnham Holmes will compose poetry as the music unfolds. He will share a poem after each three-song set.
This will be a conversation-friendly environment. Bring friends, enjoy music and conversation together, and feel a part of the art of jazz, with a side of poetry. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater and Middlebury Community Music Center present:
The Addison String Quartet
A Benefit Concert for MCMC's Community String Ensembles
Saturday, September 26 at 11 AM in the Anderson Studio
A wildly eclectic morning of chamber music, from Dvořák to Led Zeppelin, to support MCMC's Community String Ensembles.
The Addison String Quartet brings its warm, intimate, and interactive style to Town Hall Theater for a special morning concert. Violinists Emily Sunderman and Carol Harden, violist Sam Liebhaber, and cellist Stefán Örn Arnarson will perform movements from string quartets by Dvořák, Debussy, Barber, and Beethoven alongside covers of pop favorites by The Cure, Katy Perry, and Led Zeppelin.
Founded in 2003, the Addison String Quartet is a community of professional and amateur string players in Addison County who play for the pure pleasure of it. Every week they sight-read from the vast catalog of quartet repertoire and rehearse for concerts, weddings, funerals, and community events around the region.
About the Benefit
This concert supports MCMC's Community String Ensembles, a tuition-free program that brings string players of all ages and levels together to play chamber music. Participants are placed in small ensembles matched to their playing level, from Suzuki Twinklers and Book 1 beginners up through seasoned players tackling works spanning the 14th century to today. The program is led by violinist Emily Sunderman, with coaching support from advanced high school and college students, many of whom came up through the program themselves. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Opera Company of Middlebury presents:
Music and Social Power:
How Has Music Shaped American Culture? How Does American Culture Shape Music?
By Dr. William Nash
On the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Sunday, September 27 at 2pm
Join Middlebury College Professor William Nash for an engaging exploration of the dynamic relationship between music and social power in American life. A Professor of American Studies and English at Middlebury since 1995, Dr. Nash's scholarship examines Black literature, enslavement and abolitionism, and contemporary Black culture, offering a rich perspective on how music has reflected, challenged, and transformed American society. Drawing on his expertise in the cultural history of race and resistance, Dr. Nash's lecture considers the ways music both shapes and is shaped by the social, political, and historical forces that define the American experience, contextualizing the culminating festival production, Rappahannock County, within the festival theme. | Reserve Tickets |
| | ZigZag Lit Mag Presents:
Issue 21. Release Party
Sunday, September 27 in The Anderson Studio at 4pm
Cocktails & Mingling @ 4 pm.
Reading @ 4:30 pm.
Celebrate Addison County writers and artists with an afternoon of art, poetry, prose, cocktails, & laughter. Read Local. Write Local.
Come celebrate Addison County writers and artists with an afternoon of art, poetry, prose, cocktails, & laughter. Write local. Read Local.
Cocktails & mingling at 4 pm, then a reading from the issue at 4:30. It's always a wonderful afternoon. Zig Zag is an arts & literature magazine for & by those who live, labor, or loiter in Addison County. Since their founding in 2016, they've published 260+ individuals.
This issue features the work of:
Ben Aleshire, Alexandre Apfel, Jared Avelis, Susan Leigh Babcock, Douglas Baird, Emily Beattie, Kelly Hedglin Bowen, Catherine Brooks, Beth Cash, Beth Christian, Oak Clarke, Petra Deane, Deborah Dickerson, A. Jay Dubberly, Lindsay Gardner, Michael Germana, Caitlin Gildrien, Heidi Schulman Greenwald, Leigh Gavin Harder, Cindy Ellen Hill, Marlie Hunt, Emily Johnston, Steven Jupiter, Mercedes Oxford Kemp, Sarah King, Karl Lindholm, Saoirse Ledoux, Doug Mack, John Mahoney, Brenna Mead, Laurie Rosen, Ted Russell, Jane Spencer, Sofia Stefani, Jacob Nile Thomas, Tobe Tomlinson, Laura Vantine, Susannah White, & Ellie Wilkinson-Sachs. And Issue.21’s featured artist is Christa Downey!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask! (info@zigzaglitmag.org) | Reserve Tickets |
| | Opera Company of Middlebury presents:
Rappahannock County
by Ricky Ian Gordon & Mark Campbell
On the historic Rothrock Main Stage
-Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30pm
with Prosecco reception to follow
-Friday, October 2 at 7:30pm
-Sunday, October 4 at 2pm
*All performances include post-show conversations with the cast & creative team
Since its 2011 premiere at the Virginia Arts Festival, Rappahannock County has drawn on the diaries, letters, and firsthand accounts of soldiers, enslaved people, families, and civilians living through the Civil War. Composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Mark Campbell, a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner, built the piece as a series of musical portraits rather than a single narrative, tracing the war's arc from secession to defeat through the voices of ordinary Virginians.
Set in Virginia but resonating well beyond it, the opera sits at themes of freedom, loss, and reconciliation that stay relevant fourteen years after its premiere and 250 years after the country's founding. Gordon's lyrical score and Campbell's libretto offer an intimate look at the human cost of war, and the culminating production of the Music in Troubled Times Festival. Post-show conversations with the cast and creative team follow each performance.
About Opera Company of Middlebury
Opera Company of Middlebury is a foundational resident company of Town Hall Theater. They have a 20+ year history in Middlebury, and are committed to continuing to deliver world class opera with an approach that is fresh, innovative, relevant, and forward-thinking. Visit the OCM website at ocmvermont.org for more information about the opera, bios of the singers and music listening suggestions. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater presents:
5 Fridays Concert Series
Voices of Change: The Songs of Bob Dylan
Friday, October 2 from 5 to 7pm outdoors on the Tilly Stage at the Maloney Plaza
An all-star group of Addison County and Vermont musicians celebrates the songs of Bob Dylan.
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.
Voices of Change: The Songs of Bob Dylan brings together an all-star lineup of Addison County and Vermont musicians for a powerful outdoor celebration of one of America's greatest songwriters.
Featuring beloved local artists Deb Brisson, Mark Pelletier, harmonica legend Mr. Charlie Frazier, The Morning Dudes, the Stay At Home Wilburys (Cameron Connah, Micah Plante, and Nate Gusakov), Glenn Goodwin, Dan Whittemore, and Ron Rost, the concert weaves together Dylan's timeless protest anthems and unforgettable classics, including "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "Blowin' in the Wind," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," and many more. Inspired by the Opera Company of Middlebury's festival theme, Music in Troubled Times, this free community concert celebrates the enduring power of music to challenge, inspire, and unite.
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 |
| | The Cutting Edge by Middlebury Acting Company Presents:
"Mary Postgate"
By Rudyard Kipling,
Adapted by Jay Parini
Sunday, October 4 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.
She has spent her whole life being useful — quiet, capable, invisible. She has buried her feelings the way she buries everything else: without complaint. But when World War One takes the one person she ever truly loved, something in Mary Postgate wakes up.
Adapted from Rudyard Kipling's most unsettling short story, Mary Postgate is a taut, single-set chamber piece about grief, repression, and the terrible clarity of revenge. Set against the smoke of a garden incinerator on an ordinary English afternoon, it asks what happens when a lifetime of swallowed rage finally finds somewhere to go.
Kipling wrote it in 1915 and readers have argued about it ever since. Come see why — and decide for yourself whether Mary Postgate is a monster, a mourner, or simply, finally, herself.
THE CUTTING EDGE: AN OFF-BROADWAY PLAY READING SERIES
In 2017 MACo inaugurated The Cutting Edge Staged Play Reading Series, originally 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:
Bluebird Improv: Legendary Comedians Come to Middlebury
Thursday, October 8. Bar opens at 6:30pm, show begins at 7:30pm, on the historic Rothrock Main Stage.
Totally unscripted. Completely unpredictable. Absolutely unmissable.
Bluebird Improv brings together some of comedy's most recognizable faces for a show that's completely improvised, every single time. Nothing is scripted or rehearsed. Each performance starts with a short conversation between the performers and a couple of audience members, and that conversation becomes the spark for everything that follows.
The members of the Bluebird collective scheduled to appear at Town Hall Theater are Joe Canale (Alum of The Second City, Boom Chicago; The Mindy Project), Marc Evan Jackson (The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Stephnie Weir (Alum of The Second City, MADtv), and Brad Morris (Alum of The Second City; Cougar Town, A.P. Bio).
But every show has one more cast member: you. No two audiences are the same, so no two shows are the same. See it once, and you'll understand why people come back to see it twice. | Reserve Tickets |
| | John Pizzarelli Presents: Dear Mr. Bennett
A Tribute to Tony Bennett
Friday, October 9 at 7:30 PM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Sixty years of Tony Bennett, one song and one story at a time.
The John Pizzarelli Trio moves through Bennett’s entire arc. The ’50s pop hits, “Because of You” and “Rags to Riches.” The ’60s standards, “I Wanna Be Around” and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” The Bill Evans collaborations. And the ’90s revival that handed Bennett a whole new audience.
Between the songs, Pizzarelli tells stories about the man behind the catalog. The Boston Globe credits him with “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz,” and he has spent a career widening what that songbook holds, folding in Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and the Beatles.
He has recorded with Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown, Natalie Cole, Buddy DeFranco, and his father Bucky Pizzarelli. He won a Grammy in 2021 as co-producer of James Taylor’s American Standard. He co-hosts Radio Deluxe with his wife, Jessica Molaskey. And he opens the first Middlebury House of Jazz Festival. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Miles Donahue Quartet
Featuring Vanessa Dunleavy
Saturday, October 10 at 2:00 PM in the Anderson Studio
Trumpet, saxophone, keys, and voice. Miles Donahue plays the first three, and guest vocalist Vanessa Dunleavy rounds out the group. The afternoon goes wherever the band takes it.
Donahue has spent decades crossing genres without losing his own voice. Lyrical improvisation, a warm sound, and the kind of versatility that only comes from actually playing everything. He has recorded with Jerry Bergonzi, Joe Lovano, Kenny Werner, and Mike Stern, pulling from bebop, post-bop, contemporary jazz, and the Great American Songbook.
The quartet’s set mixes standards, bebop classics, originals, and contemporary favorites. What you will notice most is the listening. Four musicians answering each other in real time, in a room small enough that you catch every bit of it. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Mathis Picard Trio
Saturday, October 10 at 7:30 PM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
He plays Lincoln Center on Friday. Saturday he’s in Middlebury.
Mathis Picard is a French-Malagasy pianist and composer who moves between jazz, classical tradition, and global influence, pairing his own compositions with imaginative readings of Ellington, Monk, Bach, Chopin, and Ravel. Jazzwise has called him a rising star. He has worked with Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter, Christian McBride, and Cécile McLorin Salvant, recently toured Asia with his trio, and has been named Musical Director for the upcoming revival of the Tony Award-winning musical Ain't Misbehavin'.
Picard is no stranger to Middlebury. He first played Town Hall Theater as part of Jazz at Lincoln Center, then returned twice more for solo concerts. This time he brings his full trio, in his fourth appearance here in as many years. Picard returns the next morning to lead a festival master class on creativity.
VIP Passholders
Stay after the show for a reception and meet & greet with Mathis Picard in Jean’s Place Lounge. Drinks, sweet bites, and an unhurried conversation to close the night. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Mathis Picard Master Class
The Art of Creation & Creativity
Sunday, October 11 at 11:00 AM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Where does creativity actually come from? Mathis Picard has a theory, and it starts in the body.
This one opens as a lecture and turns into a conversation. Picard traces the sources of music and creation through the seven chakras, looking at how creative energy is stored and moved through the body. The through-line is simple: taking care of your mind, body, and spirit is not separate from making good work. It is the same job.
Picard started playing piano at three and was drawn immediately to music’s healing side. He now leads a solo project, a trio, and his orchestra, The Sound Orchestra, and shares this work with audiences around the world.
Open to musicians, students, teachers, and anyone curious about where their own ideas come from. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Lara Cwass Band
Sunday, October 11 at 4:00 PM in the Anderson Studio
Soulful vocals meet jazz, blues, Latin rhythms, and timeless American influences.
Lara Cwass was born and raised in Queens and now leads her band out of Burlington. Her playing and singing move through jazz fusion, blues, soul, funk, and open improvisation, and she has shared stages with members of the Allman Brothers family along with Eric Krasno, Luther Dickinson, Mike Gordon, John Medeski, and Jackie Greene.
The Lara Cwass Band is Cwass with Paul Lyons, Jack McChesney, and Evan Barker. Original music rooted in jazz, blues, rock, soul, and funk. Soulful, sweet, honest, and gritty, with the kind of interplay that makes every night sound a little different. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Ray Vega’s Afro-Caribbean Ensemble
Festival Finale
Sunday, October 11 at 7:30 PM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Salsa, bebop, funk, and Afro-Caribbean rhythm close the festival out loud.
Ray Vega grew up in the South Bronx and played his way straight through the golden era of Latin jazz. Tito Puente. Ray Barretto. Mongo Santamaria. Celia Cruz. Paquito D’Rivera. Arturo Sandoval. Eddie Palmieri. He served as lead trumpeter in the Tito Puente Latin Jazz Orchestra and played on the Grammy-winning Mambo Birdland.
Now based in Vermont, where he is a senior lecturer at UVM, Vega brings that lineage to an ensemble built for fiery improvisation and grooves you feel before you hear. His career runs from the Blue Note and Birdland to major jazz festivals around the world, and it arrives here with a distinctly contemporary Nuyorican bite.
Last show of the festival. Come ready. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Palliative Support Services at Porter Medical Center presents:
Stories from the Heart
Honoring the Spirits of Those Who Have Left This World
Wednesday, October 14 at 6:30pm on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Five neighbors take the stage to share true, unscripted stories of loss, grief, and the people they still carry with them.
Now in its fifth year, Stories from the Heart brings five local storytellers to Town Hall Theater to share personal experiences in their own words, without notes or a script. Like The Moth, each story unfolds live and in the moment. This year's storytellers will be announced the week of the show.
Sharing stories is one of the oldest and most universal human experiences. It invites us to learn more about ourselves, each other, and our community, and it grows our capacity for compassion.
About Palliative Support Services
Palliative Support Services is part of the Palliative Care Department at Porter Medical Center. The program supports patients, families, and caregivers during and after the dying process, offering companionship, vigil sitting, bedside singing from the Wellspring Singers, and grief support.
After the Show
Right after the event, you're invited to walk a luminary-lit path from Town Hall Theater to the Henry Sheldon Museum. There, you can light a candle in memory of a loved one at the Community Memory Altar on the museum's porch, with harp music from Matthew Von Behrens along the way.
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| | Town Hall Theater Presents:
TINA FRIML:
One-Hour Comedy Special — Live Taping in Her Hometown!
BE PART OF COMEDY HISTORY — RIGHT HERE IN MIDDLEBURY.
Friday, October 16 at 7pm and 9pm on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Vermont's own Tina Friml is coming home for a very special night: the filming of her new one-hour comedy special at Town Hall Theater.
Named one of Variety's Top 10 Comics to Watch, Tina has grown from her Vermont roots into a nationally and internationally touring comedian with sold-out shows across the country and a social media following of more than half a million fans. She has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central, and Don't Tell Comedy.
Known for her sharp writing, animated optimism, and fearless humor about disability and the assumptions that come with living with cerebral palsy, Tina has become one of the most exciting voices in stand-up today.
Now, she's bringing it all back home. Middlebury will be the backdrop—and the audience—for the filming of Tina's one-hour special. Come laugh. Come cheer on a hometown star. And be part of the night that gets captured on film.
Please Note
This performance is being professionally filmed. By attending, you may appear in the recording. Audience members will be seated on camera. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater Presents:
A Spotlight on the Arts
Saturday, October 17th 5pm-9pm
For one night, every corner of Town Hall Theater opens up for art, music, dance, and a few once-in-a-lifetime surprises — all to support the shows, students, and stage lighting that keep this place going.
Start the evening on the first floor of the New Wing and in the Jackson Gallery, exploring a fine art sale curated by Theresa Harris, former director of Edgewater Gallery, alongside live jazz and intimate performances from Erin Cassels-Brown and Deep Think Jazz Trio. Try your hand at collaborative tote-bag art-making, or join David Rose for a welcoming mini dance class open to all skill levels.
From there, the celebration moves to THT's historic Rothrock Main Stage for a performance by acclaimed dancer and choreographer Christal Brown, a showcase of work from local clothing designers, and a live auction. The night closes out with music and dancing to The Doughboys.
The silent auction runs throughout the evening, with one-of-a-kind experiences up for bid: a private dinner with acclaimed author Julia Alvarez and Bill Eichinger, a private screening and conversation with Jay Parini, a studio tour and lunch with painter Kate Gridley, and a private living-room performance of Doug Anderson's Inner Weather: A Robert Frost Calendar.
Passed appetizers, desserts, and one complimentary glass of sparkling wine or a non-alcoholic beverage are included with your ticket.
Proceeds from A Spotlight on the Arts support free and reduced-price arts experiences, scholarships, expanded education and programming, and new lighting for the Rothrock Main Stage.
THT is grateful to event sponsors Gaines Insurance, Marble Trail Financial, M&T Bank, and anonymous donors for making this night possible. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Great Art Wednesday:
James McNeill Whistler
Wednesday, October 21 at 11am and 2pm in the Anderson Studio
Running Time: 90 minutes
A new release from Exhibition on Screen, directed by David Bickerstaff (Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition, Turner & Constable).
The first major Whistler retrospective in three decades, captured on screen for everyone who couldn't make it to London.
Earlier this year, Tate Britain mounted the first major retrospective of James McNeill Whistler's work in three decades, pairing world-famous paintings with pieces rarely seen in public. Exhibition on Screen filmed the exhibition, bringing those works and the story behind them to movie screens around the world.
Whistler spent most of his career in London and Paris, but his restless approach to color, composition, and self-promotion left its mark on American art for generations after him. This film is a chance to get to know a painter whose influence outran his fame. | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Così fan tutte
Saturday, October 24 at 1pm* in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
4 hrs, with one intermission
*This is an encore screening and will not be shown live.
Overflowing with gorgeous melody, Mozart’s witty romantic comedy follows two sailors who switch places to test their fiancées’ faithfulness, with hilarious results.
Hailed as “colorful, inventive” by The New York Times, Phelim McDermott’s (Satyagraha, Akhnaten, The Hours, The Enchanted Island) production updates the setting to an amusement park inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, featuring sword swallowers, fire breathers, contortionists, and more.
CAST Federica Lombardi, Samantha Hankey, Ana María Martínez, Duke Kim, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Gerald Finley
CONDUCTOR Nimrod David Pfeffer
DIRECTOR Phelim McDermott | Reserve Tickets |
| | Maiden Vermont Presents:
Music Can Change The World
Saturday, October 24 at 7pm
Sunday, October 25 at 2pm
Both performances will be on the Historic Rothrock Main Stage.
Presented by Maiden Vermont, Middlebury's beloved women's a cappella chorus that specializes in close harmony singing
Under the direction of the energetic and talented Tim Guiles, the Maiden Vermont Chorus brings its “hearts on fire” music and close harmony singing back to the stage. This local a cappella chorus of 35 women has prepared an exciting concert program which includes a great arrangement of the Pentatonix SING! along with a range of music from the Beatles to popular songs from movies such as Barbie, Toy Story, and The Greatest Showman, The arc of the show this year is looking at how music can change the world - - - in our hearts one at a time, and collectively as we explore social issues of war and peace - - - and how to deal with changes in the world around us. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Vermont Bookshop Presents:
Dr. Galit Atlas: Come Closer
In conversation with Devon Jersild
Monday, October 26 at 6pm in the Anderson Studio
Internationally renowned psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas returns with a new book on the childhood wounds that quietly shape how we love as adults.
Dr. Galit Atlas, the internationally bestselling author of Emotional Inheritance, joins Weybridge author and psychologist Devon Jersild for an evening built around her new book, Come Closer: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy.
This profound work explores the hidden barriers to the deep connections we crave, inviting readers into the private lives of her patients—and her own vulnerabilities—to reveal how childhood wounds unconsciously shape our adult patterns.
By identifying six "wounded child" archetypes—among them, the frightened child, the melancholic child, and the invisible child—Dr. Atlas outlines a transformative framework for
healing. Her narrative style bridges the gap between deep psychoanalytic theory and dramatic storytelling, making the mechanics of emotional intimacy accessible to readers of all backgrounds.
Dr. Atlas will be joined on stage by Devon Jersild, a clinical psychologist and author of the recent novel Luminous Bodies. Together, they will discuss the delicate intersections of personal history,
trauma response, and the profound bravery required to truly let someone "come closer."
Time will be reserved for audience questions, followed by a book signing and reception with a cash bar.
Books will be available for purchase at the event and are currently available for pre-order at a 20% discount. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater and Jim Merkel present a special screening of:
Saving Walden's World
Wednesday, October 28 at 6pm in the Anderson Studio
Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes, followed by a Q&A with Filmaker Jim Merkel
A former military engineer treks to Cuba, Kerala, and Slovenia to find out what a sustainable, women-led future actually looks like
Saving Walden's World follows Jim Merkel, a former military engineer turned sustainability activist, as he raises his son Walden on an off-grid homestead in Maine. The film travels with him to Cuba, Kerala, and Slovenia, where he documents women-led communities that have built extraordinary qualities of life by prioritizing healthcare, literacy, and reproductive freedom. It doesn't just lay out the problem. It shows that the solutions already exist, and that people are already living them.
The film has screened at 23 international film festivals and won 14 awards. It has been accepted for national distribution on PBS via NETA and selected for the 29th UNAFF, the United Nations Association Film Festival.
Jim Merkel joins for a Q&A immediately following the screening.
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| | Middlebury Acting Company Presents:
Tartuffe
by Molière
Directed by Melissa Lourie
November 5-8 & 12-15
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.
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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.
Presented by Middlebury Acting Company, Town Hall Theater's professional resident theater company, delivering playful, intimate and conversation sparking productions since 2001. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall theater and Valley Stage Present:
TANASI
A Worldgrass Trio
Friday, November 13 in the Anderson Studio
-Bar opens at 4:30pm
-doors at 5pm
-music at 5:30pm
- 90-minute set, no intermission
Three roots musicians who've played Carnegie Hall and the Ryman bring their globe-spanning bluegrass sound to the Anderson Studio
TANASI plays what they call “worldgrass”: Appalachian string band music opened up to melodies and rhythms from across the world. Billy Cardine's dobro and slide guitar anchor the sound, and Anya Hinkle and Mary Lucey's close harmonies carry it. It's bluegrass that doesn't stay in one place.
All three are internationally respected roots musicians in their own right. Together they've played Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Ryman Auditorium, and performed at festivals including Bonnaroo, MerleFest, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, the Earl Scruggs Music Festival, RockyGrass, and major roots festivals across Scandinavia and Europe. Their individual work has drawn praise from No Depression, PopMatters, Americana UK, and NPR-affiliated programs.
In 2025, TANASI received a National Endowment for the Arts USArtists International Grant, recognizing their commitment to meaningful cross-cultural collaboration. This year they're releasing their self-titled debut album, TANASI, and playing major festivals including RockyGrass, Red Wing Roots, and Strawberry Music Festival. | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Macbeth
Saturday, November 21 at 1pm* in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
3 hrs 30 mins, with one intermission
*This is an encore screening and will not be shown live.
Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean drama centers on the doomed Scottish king, haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent to the throne, and his power-mad wife, whose ruinous ambition damns them both.
Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists, baritone Quinn Kelsey (Tosca, Rigoletto) and Lise Davidsen (Tristan und Isolde, Fidelio, Tosca, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos) star as the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost in a highly anticipated new production.
CAST Lise Davidsen, Freddie De Tommaso, Quinn Kelsey, Ryan Speedo Green
CONDUCTOR Yannick Nézet-Séguin
DIRECTOR Louisa Proske | Reserve Tickets |
| | Warren Miller's
Days Off
-Saturday, November 22 at 5:00 PM on the Rothrock Main Stage (Doors at 4:00 PM)
Drop in on Warren Miller’s 77th film, Days Off. Join host Katie Burrell as she pulls back the curtain on what the pros do on their days off. Go skijoring in Banff, join Craig McMorris and friends in Whistler, and explore Alaska’s spines with Sam Kuch and Craig Murray. Watch Jess Kimura push snowboarding forward and inspire the next generation in Hokkaido, Japan. Head to Chamonix for an intense high-alpine pivot with Christina “Lusti” Lustenberger. Then, hit Deer Valley with Ted Ligety, Kaylin Richardson, Pep Fujas, Chuck Mumford, and their broods, plus much more. Tickets at warrenmiller.com.
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| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Samson et Dalila
Saturday, December 5 at 12pm in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
3 hrs 55 min, with two intermissions
Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the classic biblical story follows Samson, the hero of legendary strength, and Dalila, the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him.
The Met’s larger-than-life production returns, featuring a massive orchestra and chorus and some of opera’s most spellbinding tunes. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen) and tenor Clay Hilley star as the title pair.
CAST Aigul Akhmetshina, Clay Hilley, Quinn Kelsey, Alfred Walker, Morris Robinson
CONDUCTOR Giacomo Sagripanti
DIRECTOR Darko Tresnjak | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
La Fanciulla del West
Saturday, February 6 at 1pm* in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
3 hours 15 minutes, with one intermission
*This is an encore screening and will not be shown live.
Set during the California Gold Rush, Minnie, the gun-slinging tavern owner with a heart of gold, finds love in the arms of a dashing outlaw.
Celebrated British director Richard Jones brings a new production of Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West to the Met, which marks the company’s first new staging of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as Minnie, starring alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson.
CAST Vida Miknevičiūtė, SeokJong Baek, Christopher Maltman
CONDUCTOR Keri-Lynn Wilson
DIRECTOR Richard Jones | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Silent Night
Saturday, March 20 at 1pm in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
3 hours, with one intermission
One of the 21st century’s most powerful new works, this opera draws inspiration from the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy.
Composer Kevin Puts (The Hours) returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize–winning first opera, hailed as “an overwhelming emotive experience” (The Guardian), in an evocative staging by director James Robinson (Champion, Porgy and Bess) that takes the audience directly to the battlefields of the Western Front.
CAST Elza van den Heever, Ben Bliss, Rolando Villazón, Ben Reisinger, Mattia Olivieri, Justin Austin, Ryan McKinny, Kyle Ketelsen
CONDUCTOR Dalia Stasevska
DIRECTOR James Robinson | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Manon
Sunday, April 11 at 12pm* in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
4 hours, 25 minutes, with two intermissions
*This is an encore screening and will not be shown live.
A masterpiece of the French repertoire, Massenet’s passionate drama follows the young Manon on her journey from Parisian glamour to tragic downfall.
Superstar soprano Nadine Sierra (La Sonnambula, Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor) takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama, in a stylish staging by director Laurent Pelly (Cendrillon).
CAST Nadine Sierra, Matthew Polenzani, Carlo Bosi, Andrzej Filończyk, Rod Gilfry, Jean Teitgen
CONDUCTOR Yves Abel
DIRECTOR Laurent Pelly | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Otello
Saturday, April 24 at 1pm in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
3 hours 20 minutes, with one intermission
Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy follows a triumphant war hero driven to destruction by jealousy and his enemies’ hatred.
The ultimate Italian opera returns to cinemas with tenor Brian Jagde (La Forza del Destino) taking on the tour-de-force title role, opposite soprano Ailyn Pérez (Florencia en el Amazonas, Falstaff) as Desdemona.
CAST Ailyn Pérez, Deborah Nansteel, Brian Jagde, Piotr Buszewski, Artur Ruciński, Vitalij Kowaljow
CONDUCTOR Michele Mariotti
DIRECTOR Bartlett Sher | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Parsifal
Saturday, June 26 at 12pm* in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
6 hours 5 minutes, with two intermissions
*This is an encore screening and will not be shown live.
Wagner’s epic final opera, set in a sacred realm of ritual and mystery, unfolds as a meditation on healing and redemption with a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail.
François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times), features tenor Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier, Aida, Carmen, Lohengrin, Fedora) in the title role, alongside an all-star cast.
CAST Elīna Garanča, Piotr Beczała, Peter Mattei, Ryan Speedo Green, Jongmin Park, Alfred Walker
CONDUCTOR Yannick Nézet-Séguin
DIRECTOR François Girard | Reserve Tickets |
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