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| | Theatre Group Ltd Presents:
Night Fires
Directed by Marianne Lust
December-19-21
*Preshow begins 20 minutes prior to showtime.
"Night Fires audiences come to the theater as individuals and, afterwards, head out into the night as a knitted-together community with shared memories of words, songs and images to store up in dreams and waking hours like the best seasoned firewood, ready for the long winter nights ahead."
Night Fires, a Vermont tradition since 1982, weaves together song, story, poetry, and dance to honor the Winter Solstice.
This year's performance imagines the first-ever Interdependence Day celebration in a Vermont park on the longest night of the year. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater Presents:
Solstice in the Shire: a celebration of the shortest day!
Sunday, December 21 at 2:00 PM throughout the New Wing
We will kick off this Festival earlier in the day (12:30pm-2pm) with classes for children interested in Holiday Treat-making and Acting/Puppetry.
(To register for a class, click here.)
At 2:00 families are encouraged to join us for edible ornament creation while they gobble delicious goodies, quaff holiday beverages, and partake in an interactive performance of Solstice stories celebrating THE SHORTEST DAY.
Admission is free/ Donations accepted. Please register beforehand! | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater Presents:
New Year's Eve Featuring:
SOULE MONDE
Wednesday, December 31, 7-10PM
Join us for an early New Year’s Eve with Soule Monde and bring the whole family!
Soule Monde is avant funk born of the syncopated minds of power drummer Russ Lawton and organ wizard Ray Paczkowski. The duo of celebrated performers features beautiful and dynamic melodies and bold improvisational leaps. We’ll ring in 2026 early with a countdown somewhere between 9:30 and 10pm – also known as Ripton midnight. The people of Greenland and Brazil will be celebrating right around then too!
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| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
I Puritani
Saturday, January 10 at 1:00pm in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
3 hrs 45 mins, with one intermission
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. This is the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years with a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater Presents:
Tina Friml's Big Apple Comedy
NYC Comics in Middlebury
Saturday, January 10 at 8pm on the Rothrock Mainstage
Join us for cocktail hour at 7pm.
World-famous comedian Tina Friml will return to her hometown to headline a comedy night in THT’s Anderson Studio. Tina has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Drew Barrymore Show’s ‘Bananamores,’ as well as appearing in many comedy festivals and top comedy clubs around the world. In 2025, Tina won the Seven Daysie for Best Standup Comic, and in 2019, Tina was named Just for Laughs New Face. Tina will be joined by a New York comic, and emcee Keziah Wilde. Bar opens at 6pm.
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| | Vermont Bookshop Presents:
Helen Whybrow & Ethan Tapper
Living on the Land, Words and Practice
Wednesday, January 21 at 6:30 PM in the Anderson Studio
Join Vermont Book Shop for a conversation with two award-winning Vermont writers – Helen Whybrow and Ethan Tapper.
Helen and Ethan will talk about how their lives inspired their recent books, The Salt Stones and How to Love a Forest, both meditations on land, place and stewardship. Helen and Ethan will discuss their books, their writing practices, and how their work and their writing informs their relationship to place.
Helen Whybrow is a writer, editor and organic farmer whose book about shepherding, land and belonging, The Salt Stones, was longlisted for the National Book Award and chosen as a New Yorker Best Book of 2025. Her other titles include Dead Reckoning (W. W. Norton, 2001) and A Man Apart (Chelsea Green, 2015).
Ethan Tapper is a forester, digital storyteller, and the bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. For more than a decade, Ethan has been recognized as a thought-leader in the world of ecosystem stewardship, winning numerous regional and nationalawards for his work.
This event is presented in partnership with Town Hall Theater. | Reserve Tickets |
| | Town Hall Theater Presents:
Great Art Wednesday -
"Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood"
Wednesday, February 11 at 11:00am and 2:30pm
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. | Reserve Tickets |
| | PM Sundays Presents:
Heather Pierson Duo
Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 4:00pm in the Anderson Studio
Joy-Infused Jazz, Folk, and Blues
Heather Pierson is a pianist, singer/songwriter, song leader, and performer with a passion for cultivating joy, both onstage and off. Her uplifting live performances with her bassist/partner Shawn Nadeau delve into New Orleans jazz, blues, and folk. Best known for her ease at the piano and her bell-tone vocals, Heather’s songs and the band’s musicianship embody honesty, playfulness, and a desire to share from the heart.
"Heather is like two great acts in one, sliding from sweet acoustic Appalachian old-timey vibe with Patty Griffinesque lyrics to brassy New Orleans blues piano with a bone thrown to Bessie Smith."
DC Bloom Lone Star Music Magazine
PM Sundays is a Series Curated by Don Sheldon of Valley Stage Productions in Partnership with Town Hall Theater
Don't miss the rest of The PM Sunday Folk Series:
Nov. 16, 2025: Ben Garnett Trio
April 19, 2026: Katie Martucci Duo
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| | 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. | Reserve Tickets |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Tristan und Isolde
Saturday, March 21 at 12:00pm in the Anderson Studio
Estimated Run Time:
5 hrs 10 mins, with two intermissions
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide, as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke. | Reserve Tickets |
| | 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
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| | PM Sundays Presents:
Katie Martucci Duo
Sunday, April 19, 2026 at 4:00pm in the Anderson Studio
Katie Martucci is a performer, bandleader, singer and composer, who is a graduate of New England Conservatory, and has been featured on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Her latest release ‘Note to Self’ on La Reserve Records is a collection of songs about the “unspoken third thing in the room” — stories surrounding friendship, family history, imposter syndrome, her own personal journey with epilepsy and more.
Drawing inspiration from the writing and production of artists like Madison Cunningham and Emily King, Martucci's songs are lush and cinematic. "No matter what Katie Martucci chooses to sing, it absolutely captivates us. Her voice is incredible, warm, and personal." - Ear to the Ground Music
PM Sundays is a Series Curated by Don Sheldon of Valley Stage Productions in Partnership with Town Hall Theater
Don't miss the rest of The PM Sunday Folk Series:
Nov. 16, 2025: Ben Garnett Trio
Feb. 22, 2026: Heather Pierson Duo
| Reserve Tickets |
| | 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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| | 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
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 |
| | THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:
The MET: Live in HD:
Eugene Onegin
Saturday, June 20 at 1:00pm* in the Anderson Studio
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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