Town Hall Theater and Middlebury College present:

Women+ on the Edge of Democracy

New Play Readings to Jump into Election Season

Sunday, November 1 in the Anderson Studio

Doors 2:30pm Readings 3 to 4pm

New plays about America’s contradictions and possibilities, read aloud two days before Election Day.

Join Town Hall Theater and Middlebury College to kick off election season and take part in a nationwide civic action. Students from Michole Biancosino’s Contemporary Women and Non-Binary Playwrights class at Middlebury College will perform world premiere readings by some of the country’s leading women+ playwrights, including Sarah Ruhl, Lauren Gunderson, Sarah Mantell, Bridget Carpenter, and Kimber Lee.

Through humor, heartbreak, hope, and imagination, these writers consider America’s contradictions and possibilities. They ask what history, global perspectives, and visions of the future can teach us about this pivotal moment. Come experience powerful new writing that invites reflection, sparks conversation, and makes space for different perspectives.

Vermont Book Shop and Middlebury Baseball present:

An Evening with Devon O’Neil

Journalist and award-winning author of The Way Out

Friday, November 6 in the Anderson Studio

Cash bar 4:30 to 5:30pm
Conversation 6 to 7pm

Join Vermont Book Shop and Middlebury Baseball for an evening in conversation with journalist and Middlebury College graduate Devon O’Neil. His book The Way Out won both the Reading the West Book Award and the Colorado Book Award. It tells the true story of a backcountry ski outing outside Salida, Colorado, that became a thirty-hour ordeal when fifteen-year-old Cole Walters-Schaler and experienced outdoorsman Brett Beasley were caught in an unforgiving blizzard.

Drawing on firsthand interviews, O’Neil traces the tragedy and its aftermath. He explores the allure of wilderness adventure, the effects of trauma, and the difficult path toward forgiveness. Bill Gifford, bestselling coauthor of Outlive, writes, “I couldn’t stop reading it, and I can’t stop thinking about it.” Bestselling author Hampton Sides calls it “a thoughtful, sorrowful page-turner.”

The Way Out asks profound questions about risk, responsibility, and how a close-knit community finds its way forward after unimaginable loss.

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.

Middlebury College Musical Theatre Presents:

The Addams Family

November 18-20 on the historic Rothrock Main Stage

This hilarious Broadway musical brings everyone's favorite spooky family to life in a story filled with love, laughter, and a little bit of the macabre.

Middlebury College Musical Theatre (MCMT) invites you to step into the delightfully dark and wonderfully wacky world of The Addams Family! When Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, falls in love with a sweet, ordinary young man, she faces a terrifying challenge: introducing him and his family to her decidedly unordinary parents. As the two families come together for one unforgettable dinner, secrets are revealed, relationships are tested, and chaos ensues.

Featuring catchy songs, outrageous characters, and plenty of surprises, The Addams Family is a heartwarming comedy about embracing what makes us different and discovering what it really means to be a family.

Middlebury College Music Theatre (MCMT) is a resident company of Town Hall Theater and Middlebury College's entirely student-run musical theater group that showcases the incredible talents of students both on and off the stage.

Film Screening: Plucked

Over the course of one elegant dinner party, a marriage comes violently, and hilariously, apart.

Friday, November 20 in the Anderson Studio

Bar 6:30 to 7:30pm Screening 7:30pm

Directors’ Q&A planned following the film

Join us in the intimate Anderson Studio for a night of independent cinema with a personal connection to its creators. Arrive early for a drink, then stay for a conversation with with writer-directors Usher Morgan and Katie Vincent, who plan to attend for a post-film Q&A.

Set in Gilded Age New York, Plucked follows Katherine Greene, a woman determined to divorce her emotionally unstable husband. There’s just one complication: an important dinner party meant to keep up appearances. As secrets emerge and tempers flare, the elegant evening unravels into jealousy, revenge, and outrageous, increasingly dangerous chaos.

Writer-directors Usher Morgan and Katie Vincent pair period splendor with a wicked sense of humor. The ensemble features Vincent alongside Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things, Orange Is the New Black), J. Anthony Crane (Outer Banks), and Susan Gallagher (Cobra Kai). The film won Best Feature at the East Village New York Film Festival.

Runtime: 110 minutes Rated R
Watch the trailer and explore the film

Warren Miller's 

Days Off

-Sunday, November 22 at 5:00 PM on the Rothrock Main Stage (Doors at 4:00 PM)

Cash bar will open at 4pm and stay open throughout the event. 

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.

THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:

The MET: Live in HD:
Samson et Dalila

Saturday, December 5 at 12pm with a preshow talk at 11:15am in the Anderson Studio by OCM Chorus Master Nathaniel Lew.

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

Tony Trischka’s Holiday Show: Of a Winter’s Night

With opening duo Farayi

Friday, December 11 at 7:30pm on the historic Rothrock Main Stage

Bar opens 7pm and stays open throughout the show

Sparkling banjo, soaring harmonies, and a holiday soundtrack full of discovery.

Celebrate the season with Of a Winter’s Night, Tony Trischka’s holiday show. He brings his melodic inventiveness to an acoustic celebration of bluegrass and Americana, weaving beloved carols, spirited fiddle tunes, and unexpected gems into an evening of warmth and wonder.

Joined by Tim Eriksen, Hannah Read, Jared Engel, and Sean Trischka, Trischka journeys from the haunting harmonies of the Sacred Harp tradition to the foot-stomping joy of “Christmas Time’s A’Comin’.” Songs by Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie mingle with the Pretenders’ “2000 Miles” and Trischka’s own “Christmas Morn.” You get fresh takes on familiar favorites and treasures you may be hearing for the first time.

Grammy-nominated vocalist Farayi opens the evening with a thirty-minute duo set. Her soulful blend of folk, gospel, blues, and jazz draws on her rural Idaho upbringing and Zimbabwean heritage. Her expressive voice and heartfelt songs set the stage for a night of connection and celebration.

Great Art Wednesday:
Renoir & Love

Wednesday, February 10 at 11am and 2pm in the Anderson Studio

Running Time: 90 minutes

A new release from Exhibition on Screen, directed by Ali Ray (Frida Kahlo, Klimt & The Kiss).

Step into Renoir's Paris, and into one of the world's most beloved painters at the height of his powers.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir helped found the Impressionist movement and never stopped evolving as an artist. With access to the National Gallery's Renoir and Love exhibition, Exhibition on Screen brings his work to the big screen: sunlit Parisian streets, intimate portraits, and a painter's lifelong pursuit of joy.

This is both a biography of one of art's giants and a look at how Renoir helped bridge the art world's old order and the new.

THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:

The MET: Live in HD:
Silent Night

Saturday, March 20 at 1pm with a preshow talk at 12:15pm in the Anderson Studio by OCM board member Helen Lyons.

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

THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:

The MET: Live in HD:
Manon

Sunday, April 11 at 12pm* with a preshow talk at 11:15am in the Anderson Studio by OCM board member Helen Lyons.

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

Great Art Wednesday:
Monet*

Wednesday, May 19 at 11am and 2pm in the Anderson Studio
Running Time: approximately 90 minutes 

A forthcoming release from Exhibition on Screen. 

The world's favorite painter of light, on screen for Tate Modern's first-ever Monet exhibition.

To mark Tate Modern's Monet: Painting Time, its first exhibition devoted entirely to the artist, Exhibition on Screen brings Claude Monet's work to movie screens in May 2027. It's a chance to see one of art's most celebrated painters, and his spectacular, revolutionary use of light and color, up close on the big screen.

*This is a working title as the film is still in production.