While big things did not seem far from Sarah Wallis’ reach when she was playing the open mics I hosted at Sidelines just a few years back, I hardly expect to get a phone call out of the blue from her agent this past Monday.

They say everyone is a little bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, and during the next week there will be a range of activities for everyone. Events include Irish band Trinity at McGrath’s Irish Pub on Route 4 in Killington, a St. Patrick’s Day dinner at the Tinmouth Community Church. In Bellows Falls, Stone Church Arts is hosting “St. Patrick’s Fiddle Frenzy,” and for some more truly authentic Irish music, Celtic Crossroads will perform in the Chandler Music Hall in Randolph.

Charlotte Gillam really wanted the Marble Valley Players to do “The Man Who Came to Dinner.”

“I have always loved this play,” she said. “For a couple years I’ve been trying to convince them to do it, but we could never get anyone to direct it.”

So, the actress said she decided to direct it herself, recruiting fellow performer Valerie Gravelle to co-direct. The first-time directors will open the play by George Kaufman and Moss Hart on Friday at West Rutland Town Hall Theater.

Music from famous Broadway plays and movies — from “Jesus Christ Superstar” to “Evita” to “Phantom of the Opera” — will be performed by local soloists and a children’s choir, including some out-of-town professionals at the Grace Church Friday, March 6.

By PATRICK McARDLE RUTLAND HERALD STAFF
WEST PAWLET – The Woodchuck Festival and Firemen’s Games at Mettawee Community School provided family fun and benefited the West Pawlet Volunteer Fire Department.
“It’s just a really great family day. There’s not much else going on in the winter so you can just bundle up, pull your boots on and come [...]

Green Mountain Music District V concert happening at Mount St. Joseph Academy Friday at 7 p.m., Aaron Audet and Adam Falco at Center Street Saloon, Duane Carlton at Jax in Killington and Charlie B’s in Stowe; aron Chesley’s band, Clayton Sabine & The Blackout Lottery at the Weathervane Music Hall in Brattleboro.