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| | Middlebury Community Players Presents:
Nunsense
April 24-26 and April 30 - May 3
Presented by the Middlebury Community Players (MCP), Addison County's beloved volunteer theater company celebrating local talent since 1959.
Nunsense, by Dan Goggin, features five good-hearted, well-intentioned female characters who just happen to be nuns!
When 52 sisters are accidentally poisoned by the convent’s cook, five of the remaining nuns of the Little Sisters of Hoboken put on a musical revue to raise money for the funerals of four still-unburied sisters. Highlighting their “secret talents” from their pre-convent lives, they sing, dance, and entertain their way through a series of vaudeville-like numbers, often with great comic effect! This show is both a loving look at, and gentle send-up of, nuns, beloved the world over by both Catholics and non-Catholics alike!
The musical is being directed by Peter Kristoph with music direction by Annette Franklin and choreography by Kendra Gratton, who’s also serving as assistant director. Dora Greven is stage managing, assisted by Meg Kennedy, and Kush Sharma is producing, mentored by Mary Longey. The cast features local actors Avery Cutroni, Christina Dewar, Michelle Fico, Maggie Gates, and Jillian Torres.
For more information about The Middlebury Community Players, and to see photos of the cast, please visit www.MiddleburyCommunityPlayers.org
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| | Middlebury Acting Company Presents:
Eureka Day
by Jonathan Spector
Directed by Rebecca Strum
May 1–3 & May 7–10 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.
A sharp comedy about the chaos at a Berkeley elementary school when everyone wants to do 'the right thing' but no one can agree on what that is.
The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. In weekly meetings Eureka Day’s five board members develop and update policy to preserve this culture of inclusivity, reaching decisions only by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?
“Eureka Day is so brilliantly yoked to the current American moment- its flighty politics, its deadly folly-that it makes you want to jump out of your skin…The plays most astonishingly accurate moment comes when the board convenes a livestream…I’m still trying to figure out how hard is appropriate for a critic to laugh at the theater; this night, I made myself hoarse.” – The New Yorker
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| | Town Hall Theater Presents:
Great Art Wednesday -
"Girl with a Pearl Earring"
Wednesday, May 6 at 11:00am
In the Historic Rothrock Theater
Great Art Wednesday is a monthly art exhibition film series running from October 2025 to May 2026.
‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Johannes Vermeer is one of the most enduring paintings in the history of art. This beautifully filmed documentary goes in pursuit of answers to the unresolved riddles surrounding this extraordinary piece.
Holland’s distinguished Mauritshuis is home to the painting and is a stunning jewel of a gallery.
Enjoying exclusive access, the film’s main focus are the key works housed here. Interpretation of these major treasures offer insights into Vermeer and his most famous work and are interwoven with Vermeer’s life story and behind-the-scenes footage.
“The gallery going experience – minus the jostling” National Post, Canada
“Stunning Paintings in high-definition glory” This is London
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| | Sandglass Theater presents:
Feral: A Piece About Women & Wolves
Friday, May 8 at 6:30 PM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Age recommendation: 14+
A mesmerizing blend of puppetry, music, and visual theater from one of Vermont’s most celebrated performing arts companies.
Have you heard the joke about the she-wolf that is bitten by a werewolf and turns into a woman? This production presents the punchline of that strange, dark farce of domestication.
Feral follows a woman’s journey through the tension between intuitive knowledge and learned societal behavior, captured by an allegorical transformation into a werewolf. As she tries to reintegrate this wild voice, she wrestles with her sanity while being diagnosed with a growing feral condition. Within the protection of her domelike dress, domestic acts are disrupted by ancestral visitations and dreams of wolves.
Content Note
This performance includes a brief, humorous sexual encounter and a moment of strobing light.
About Sandglass Theater
Based in Putney, Vermont, Sandglass Theater combines puppets with music, actors, and visual imagery. Since 1982, their productions have toured internationally in over 30 countries, performing in theaters, festivals, and cultural institutions worldwide. Sandglass creates original ensemble performances, presents diverse theater artists, and teaches their art.
Feral is funded in part by the Jim Henson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund.
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| | Sandglass Theater presents:
Shadow Performance Workshop
Saturday, May 9, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Age recommendation: 14+
Free 20 spots Registration required
A hands-on exploration of shadow puppetry, projection, and sound looping with the creative ensemble behind Feral.
Using shadow puppets, masks, and found objects, you’ll learn how to work with different light sources, integrate manual shadows with projections, and build multilayered vocal loops. It’s a chance to get up close with the techniques Sandglass Theater used to create Feral, and to try them yourself.
The workshop is led by the Feral performance ensemble, who bring deep experience across puppetry, theater, and dance.
Funded by Vermont Humanities.
About Sandglass Theater
Based in Putney, Vermont, Sandglass Theater combines puppets with music, actors, and visual imagery. Since 1982, their productions have toured internationally in over 30 countries, performing in theaters, festivals, and cultural institutions worldwide. Sandglass creates original ensemble performances, presents diverse theater artists, and teaches their art.
Feral is funded in part by the Jim Henson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund.
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| | Town Hall Theater presents:
Science Magic!
An Open House Maker Pop-Up
Sunday, May 10, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM in the Center for Learning & Engagement
Age recommendation: All Ages
A hands-on exploration of the “magic” of light, color, and optical illusions.
Come explore afterimages, distortions, colored filters, 3D glasses, and secret messages. Led by Carol Buzby, this open-house maker pop-up is also the perfect primer for the Mario the Maker Magician matinee at THT later that afternoon. As Arthur C. Clarke put it, “Magic is just science that we don’t understand yet.”
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| | Town Hall Theater presents:
Mario the Maker Magician!
Sunday, May 10 at 2:00 PM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Age recommendation: 6–106 (fun for the whole family!)
A globe-trotting performer with multi-week shows at the Sydney Opera House and appearances on The Tonight Show comes to Middlebury, Vermont!
Robots! Magic! Slapstick! And tons of audience interaction.
Mario the Maker Magician (Mario Marchese) is a New York-based, high-energy stage show blending DIY robotics, comedy, and theater. The show centers on handmade, often faulty robots and encourages kids to be creative, resourceful, and curious about science and making. No one leaves empty-handed or empty-hearted.
Arrive early! Join us at 11:30 AM for Science Magic! An Open House Maker Pop-Up in the Center for Learning & Engagement. Led by Carol Buzby, this free, hands-on workshop explores the "magic" of light, color, and optical illusions, and is the perfect primer for the Mario show at 2:00 PM. Registration suggested.
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| | Town Hall Theater presents:
now-hOW-HOWL!
Tuesday, May 12 in the Anderson Studio
Family Mixer: 4:30 – 5:30 PM Performance: 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Age recommendation: All Ages
A whimsical, genre-defying performance blending music, movement, and imagination.
Composer and vocalist Moira Smiley and dancer-choreographer Laurel Jenkins are two Vermont-based, internationally touring powerhouse creators of movement and music. In now-hOW-HOWL!, they blend voice, movement, and imagination to celebrate the power of true collaboration, moving beyond traditional leader-and-follower roles in favor of a dynamic, shared creative process.
Whimsical and accessible to audiences of all ages, the piece offers a joyful exploration of artistic partnership as seen through the lens of two friends shaping a singular expressive world together.
Come between 4:30 and 5:30 PM for a family mixer with kid-friendly mocktails, adult cocktails, and activities. The show begins at 5:30 PM. Your ticket includes both the mixer and the performance.
“How can I get more absurd, beautiful moments like this in my life?” - Attendee of now-hOW-HOWL!
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| | Addison Repertory Theatre's Young Company present:
My Sister Heracles
Wednesday, May 13 at 6:30 PM on the Rothrock Main Stage
Age recommendation: 12+
An award-winning original work by student artists, using shadow puppetry, animation, live music, and pantomime to explore how stories help us face grief.
My Sister Heracles follows a young girl who faces the loss of a beloved family member. Told through shadow puppetry, animation, live music, and pantomime, Heracles explores the role our favorite stories have in helping us cope with grief. Created by the young actors of the Addison Repertory Theatre, this original work was recently named one of the top two shows at the 2026 Vermont Drama Festival.
Created by the young actors of the Addison Repertory Theatre, this original work was recently named one of the top two shows at the 2026 Vermont Drama Festival.
Addison Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) is Vermont's only career technical education theatre arts program. The two-year, half-day program offers high school students performance and technical tracks, with each cohort producing a full season of original work. Notable alumni include Jake Lacy, Harry McEnerny, and Tina Friml.
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| | Town Hall Theater's Young Company presents:
Little Women
Thursday, May 14 at 5:30 PM in the Anderson Studio
Age recommendation: All ages
A timeless coming-of-age story, newly adapted and performed by the next generation.
Little Women follows the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, as they navigate the challenges of family, friendship, ambition, and identity during a time of immense change. Through moments of hardship and joy, each sister forges her own path while remaining deeply connected by love and resilience.
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, this timeless tale is being newly adapted and performed by Town Hall Theater’s Young Company, bringing fresh energy and perspective to a classic story that continues to resonate with audiences of all ages.
Directed by Lindsay Pontius.
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| | Town Hall Theater presents:
Cirque Us: One Man’s Trash
Friday, May 15 at 6:30 PM on the historic Rothrock Main Stage
Age recommendation: All Ages
A junkyard circus adventure where acrobats, aerialists, and clowns turn trash into treasure.
Grab your garbage bags, pick up the recycling, and get ready to laugh and cheer.
One Man’s Trash reclaims and reanimates the stuff left in trash cans and littered in the garage, creating a one-of-a-kind spectacle.
Acrobats, high-flying aerialists, and quirky clowns perform daring circus acts built around teamwork and resourcefulness. Whether it’s the pass of a juggling club or the leap of an acrobat, this show proves what we’re all capable of together.
The 2026 touring troupe features performers from Machine de Cirque, Cirque Mechanics, Kristallpalast Varieté, Flynn Creek Circus, Cirque Dreams, Midnight Circus, 7 Fingers, and more.
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| | Town Hall Theater presents:
Show Up, Kids!
English/Spanglish
Saturday, May 16 at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM in the Anderson Studio
Age recommendation: 3–10 (and their grownups)
A critically acclaimed, totally outrageous interactive comedy where the kids run the show.
When the main attraction doesn’t show up, our hapless host enlists the help of the crowd to control everything: plot, props, characters, costumes, settings, and sound.
Every performance is different because the kids are in charge. It’s 45 minutes of nonstop laughs, and no two shows are ever the same.
This performance is in English/Spanglish, performed by Denisse Estefany Mendoza.
“Fantastic fun! A one-man whirling dervish of energy, comic timing, physical agility, and out and out hilarity. The kids were absolutely mesmerized.” - The Front Row Center
About the Show
Show Up, Kids! was created by Peter Michael Marino and directed by Michole Biancosino. It was named a NY Times Pick, TimeOut NY Pick, Red Tricycle Pick, Mommy Poppins Pick, and more during its 2018–2020 run at NYC’s Kraine Theater. The show has received acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe, Cincy Fringe, and Hollywood Fringe, along with a sold-out two-week run at The Complex in Hollywood.
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| | Town Hall Theater presents:
The Hokum Brothers Concert
A Vaudeville-Style Family Dance Party!
Saturday, May 16, 3:00 – 4:30 PM on the Maloney Plaza
Age recommendation: All Ages
The grand finale of the First Annual New England Family Theatre Festival.
Join the festival finale with an all-ages outdoor party featuring The Hokum Brothers, a hilarious vaudeville band. Rare and original, their songs are catchy and woven with humor. Their lyrics speak of true-life experiences with a thread of the earliest cultural fabric we call Americana.
Sweet treats for sale and other surprises in store!
This is an open gathering. Feel free to bring camping chairs if you’d like to sit.
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| | Town Hall Theater and Bianca Stone Present:
Bianca Stone Poet Laureate Project:
Ruth Stone
Tuesday, May 19 at 6:00 PM in the Anderson Studio.
Cocktail Hour: 5:00-6:00 PM
Lecture: 6:00-7:00 PM
Two Vermont Poet Laureates, one family. Bianca Stone reads and reflects on the work of her grandmother, Ruth Stone.
Current Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone is touring the state to take listeners deep into the work of a previous Vermont Poet Laureate. Focusing on the poems themselves and opening up a discussion about the phenomenon of poetry's place in our world, this lecture series will underscore how poems and poets are vital to our state, connecting community members to the changing landscape, architecture, wildlife, and to each other on the most intimate level.
This one-hour lecture will feature Ruth Stone, Bianca's grandmother, who served as Vermont Poet Laureate from 2007-2011. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Vermont Book Shop Presents:
Visitations Book Launch with
Julia Alvarez
Wednesday, May 20 at 6:30 PM in the Anderson Studio.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Vermont Bookshop presents a conversation with Julia Alvarez as she returns to her first love, poetry, with a scintillating new collection drawn from all the seasons of her life.
“Visitations is a cause for celebration. The first book of poems by Julia Alvarez in over twenty years braids miracles and mourning, infused with the compassion that characterizes all the work of this
resplendent writer.” —Martín Espada, National Book Award-winning author of Jailbreak of Sparrows
In these poems, Alvarez traces her life gently, a fingertip following lines on a page, through memories of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, a dictatorship dramatically survived, the smells of sancocho and sofrito, the formative influence of her tías and her sisters, her move to America and the challenges of learning English, the search for mental health and beauty, redemption and success. We meet her grandchild and her mother, her lovers, visit the homes where she grew up and the homes where she grew into the formidable writer read in thousands of classrooms across America today. Her wisdom is as clear and beautiful as the light that shines through glass and yet grounded through the form and substance of self-knowing.
Told with a storyteller’s intimacy and the comfort of a warm hearth, this is a master writer’s reflection on family, aging, love, the body, having a voice, and the very act of composing poetry itself, experienced across the arc of decades—a collection of searching for an artistic voice, for the author’s very essence, until, “the way it sometimes happens: we arrive / where we were promised, belong to / what we longed for in ourselves, each other.”
This event is presented in partnership with Town Hall Theater. | Reserve Tickets |
| | 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.
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 |
| | 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.
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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| | 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 |
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