Town Hall Theater Presents

A Toast to the Arts! 

Saturday, September 13th 5:30pm-8pm

Support Town Hall Theater and our vibrant arts community in an evening of art, music and food. 

Browse and purchase works from 20 acclaimed Vermont artists across multiple mediums—from paintings and photography to ceramics and textiles—with pieces at various price points to suit every collector. The event showcases THT's beautiful new wing and Jackson Gallery, with live music by DJ Serena Kim and guitarist Ken Pasciak, plus delicious bites from Crooked Ladle and Sushi Maru.

Your ticket includes a complimentary beverage.

Plus, Don't miss your chance to win an extraordinary raffle prize: an intimate evening of fine art and fine dining with renowned Vermont landscape painter Kathleen Kolb. The winner and up to seven guests will enjoy an artist talk, private viewing of Kolb's work, and catered dinner at the home of Ken and Theresa Harris. Raffle tickets are just $5 each or 5 for $20—you don't need to be present to win.

Purchase individual raffle tickets here.

Preview the artwork on view on our event page here. 

Middlebury Acting Company Presents:

Parent on Board, a sketch-comedy revue!

September 18-20

Thursday, September 18 at 7:30 pm
Friday, September 19 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, September 20 at 4 pm and 8 pm

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 and Interact Creative are bringing a brand-new sketch comedy revue to Middlebury in September 2025! Our talented team of actor/writer/improvisors have created original scenes and songs based on the wildly challenging yet wondrously wonderful world of parenting and being parented. The show is directed by Andrew Ritter, a former director, teacher, and performer of sketch comedy and improvisation at The Second City in Chicago.

Music Direction by Kai Fukudu.

Written and Performed by:
Julia DiFerdinando, Vanessa Dunleavy, Alex Hudson, Jory Raphael, Eric Reid-St. John, Amy Halpin Riley, Andrew Ritter, & MacArthur Stine.

Town Hall Theater Presents:

From Earth to Earth: The Lost Art of Dying in America

Followed by Q&A with the founder of Vermont Forest Cemetery .

Wednesday, September 24 at 6pm in the Doug and Debby Anderson Studio

This short, 20-minute documentary describes natural burial and its benefits through stories from the people who worked to make it legal in Vermont. It also discusses natural burial’s environmental benefits, the comfort this ritual provides to loved ones struggling with grief, and the ways in can help us contemplate our own mortality. The film includes scenes from the Vermont Forest Cemetery, the first and still only cemetery devoted to natural burial in Vermont and from Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve outside of Ithaca, NY.

The documentary, which won a number of awards in US and Europe, including a Webby Award for Best Short Form Documentary Film, will be followed by a Q&A session led by Jim Hogle the President and Communications and Outreach Coordinator of the Vermont Forest Cemetery, and by Michelle Acciavatti, Founder of the Vermont Forest Cemetery.

Opera Company of Middlebury Presents:

West Side Story (1961)

Thursday, Sept. 25 at 7:30pm
6:30pm Doors/Bar open
7:00pm Pre-show talk by Douglas Anderson
7:30pm Screening Begins

Join us for a screening of the 1961 film West Side Story with a special pre-show talk given by OCM Artistic Director Douglas Anderson before the event! This classic movie musical is a cinematic masterpiece - watch the original MGM trailer here. 

Part of OCM's A Bernstein Festival
This event is part of A Bernstein Festival - two weeks celebrating the legendary composer through films and live performance.

Festival Events Include:

Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music documentary (Sept. 24)

Candide OCM's acclaimed 2021 film (Oct. 2)

The Bernstein Songbook featuring Trouble in Tahiti (Oct. 3-5)

View all festival events and tickets here.

Opera Company of Middlebury Presents:

CANDIDE: Screening of OCM’s 2021 Film

Thursday, October 2 at 7:30pm
Pre-show talk at 7:00pm by Douglass Anderson

Join us for a screening of OCM’s acclaimed film of our 2021 production of Candide with a special pre-show talk given by OCM Artistic Director Douglas Anderson before the event!

The Opera Company of Middlebury’s Candide has thrilled people all over the world. During the height of the pandemic, when a live production was impossible, OCM used state-of-the art tricks of cinema magic to create a visually stunning landscape for Bernstein’s comic operetta. Watch the trailer.

Part of OCM's A Bernstein Festival

This event is part of A Bernstein Festival - two weeks celebrating the legendary composer through films and live performance.

Festival Events Include:

Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music documentary (Sept. 24)

West Side Story 1961 film screening (Sept. 25)

The Bernstein Songbook featuring Trouble in Tahiti (Oct. 3-5)

View all festival events and tickets here.

The Cutting Edge by Middlebury Acting Company Presents:

"Blood of the Lamb "
By Arlene Hutton

Sunday, October 5 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.

In a time about two days from now, Nessa, traveling from LAX to JFK, finds herself diverted to Dallas. Trapped in a room with Val, a lawyer, Nessa just wants to leave on the next plane out. But this is Texas, and Nessa is pregnant and Val is on the phone with legislators who are pulling the strings. With new laws in place Nessa will not be allowed to leave the state until after she gives birth. Can Val be persuaded to go against her convictions, putting her own job and future career on the line in order to help Nessa escape? A political thriller.

“Blood of the Lamb is an urgent new play about choices: The choices that are taken from us and the choices we can still make.”—Front Row Center

THE CUTTING EDGE: AN OFF-BROADWAY PLAY READING SERIES

In 2017 MACo inaugurated The Cutting Edge Staged Play Reading Series, curated and directed by Rebecca Strum. The Cutting Edge Series offers three contemporary, relevant, intelligent staged readings featuring top Vermont actors, followed by lively talk-backs each year, and has proven to be very popular with our audiences.

Town Hall Theater Presents:

Great Art Wednesday -
"The Impressionists & the Man Who Made Them"

Wednesday, October 15 at 11:00am
In the Anderson Studio

Great Art Wednesday is a monthly art exhibition film series running from October 2025 to May 2026.

FROM THE MUSÉE DU LUXEMBOURG & MUSÉE D’ORSAY PARIS, NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON AND PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART AND FROM EXHIBITION ON SCREEN

Uncover the story of art’s greatest revolutionaries—figures like Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir—collectively known as the Impressionists. Today their works fetch tens of millions of dollars around the globe. But who were they and what lies behind their enduring appeal? How exactly did they paint?

Director Phil Grabsky secured unparalleled access to a major exhibition on the man credited with inventing Impressionism as we know it: 19th-century Parisian collector Paul Durand-Ruel. It was Durand-Ruel’s bold decision to exhibit the Impressionists in New York in 1886, introducing wealthy Americans to the new art from France at a time when it faced complete failure in the European market. Here’s the remarkable story of a movement told through the collector who made it happen.

Opera Company of Middlebury Presents:

The MET: Live in HD:
La Sonnambula

Saturday, October 25 at 1:00pm* in the Anderson Studio

*Please note, this is an encore screening and will not be shown live. 

Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.

Town Hall Theater Presents:

Great Art Wednesday -
"Caravaggio"

Wednesday, November 12 at 11:00am
In the Anderson Studio

Great Art Wednesday is a monthly art exhibition film series running from October 2025 to May 2026.

Mystery, intrigue, beauty, passion, murder – shine a new light on Caravaggio in this dramatic biography…

Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time – Caravaggio. Featuring masterpiece after masterpiece and with first-hand testimony from the artist himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance, this beautiful new film reveals Caravaggio as never before.

Multi-award-winning filmmakers David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky delve into the hidden narratives of Caravaggio’s life, piecing together clues embedded within his incredible art. The intriguing self-depictions within his works — sometimes disguised, sometimes in plain sight — offer a rare window into his psyche and personal struggles. Join us as we unravel the story of one of history’s most brilliant, complex and controversial figures.

Caravaggio’s masterpieces are some of art’s most instantly recognisable. No one else uses his signature blend of dramatic light, intense naturalism and bold, striking figures. His incredible paintings have captivated audiences for centuries. But there lies a deeper mystery — one that still beckons us to explore. What do these masterpieces reveal about the man behind the brush? Join us as we explore the intriguing clues that help us to finally understand the life – and death – of this remarkable man

Warren Miller's 

Sno-ciety

-Wednesday, November 19 at 7:30 PM (Doors at 6:30 PM)

-Thursday, November 20 at 7:30 PM (Doors at 6:30 PM)

Bring on winter with Warren Miller! Join a stacked lineup of Olympians, urban riders, and local legends as they celebrate the spirit of the season, from the Scottish Highlands and the streets of Finland to the back bowls of Whitewater, BC, and a local hill-turned-terrain park in downtown Denver.

Opera Company of Middlebury Presents:

The MET: Live in HD:
Andrea Chénier

Saturday, December 13 at 1:00pm in the Anderson Studio

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.

Town Hall Theater Presents:

Great Art Wednesday -
"Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood"

Wednesday, February 11 at 11:00am 
In the Anderson Studio

Great Art Wednesday is a monthly art exhibition film series running from October 2025 to May 2026.

Heir to Velázquez, a hero to Picasso. Discover Spain’s celebrated artist with this cinematic tour de force based on the National Gallery’s must-see exhibition Goya: The Portraits.

Francisco Goya is Spain’s most celebrated artist and considered the father of modern art. Not only a brilliant observer of everyday life and Spain’s troubled past, he is a gifted portrait painter and social commentator par excellence.

Goya takes the genre of portraiture to new heights and his genius is reappraised in a much-anticipated landmark exhibition at The National Gallery, London.

Town Hall Theater Presents:

Great Art Wednesday -
"Turner and Constable"

Wednesday, March 11 at 11:00am
In the Anderson Studio

Great Art Wednesday is a monthly art exhibition film series running from October 2025 to May 2026.

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from November 2025 to April 2026, and Exhibition on Screen once again has exclusive and privileged access to bring their extraordinary art and remarkable stories to the big screen.

Discover unexpected sides to both artists with intimate views of sketchbooks and personal items and insights from leading experts.

Turner’s blazing sunsets and sublime scenes from his travels and Constable’s idealised depictions of beloved places from home whipped the public of the time into a frenzy of enthusiasm. Constable represents the very best of the old school of realism and pastoral nostalgia; Turner, an exciting new way of depicting emotion and dreamlike impressions. Critics compared their starkly different styles to a clash of ‘fire and water’. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side, as they so often were in life, on the big screen for the first time.

Town Hall Theater Presents:

Great Art Wednesday -
"Renoir: Reviled & Revered"

Wednesday, April 11 at 11:00am
In the Anderson Studio

Great Art Wednesday is a monthly art exhibition film series running from October 2025 to May 2026.

Pierre Auguste Renoir is known and loved for his impressionist paintings of Paris which rank among the world’s favourites. Renoir, however, grew tired of this style and changed course.
This stunning film – based on the remarkable Renoir collection at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation – explores the artist’s new approach. These later works still provoke extreme reactions – some people are repulsed by them and others seduced.

Two 20th century titans– Picasso and Matisse are intriguingly among the many artists who were clearly influenced by Renoir’s later direction. This film is a new biography of an artistic giant – Renoir – but also uncovers an untold story that identifies him as a significant link between the art world’s old order and the new.

‘‘There ought to be a similar film for every gallery in the world, enabling access for people who would never get to visit them otherwise.” Jonathan McAloon, Apollo Magazine

‘‘Unmissable.” Irene Olivio, Film-News

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

Opera Company of Middlebury Presents:

The MET: Live in HD:
Eugene Onegin

Saturday, June 20 at 1:00pm* in the Anderson Studio

*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.