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Did you see the best Christmas pageant?

After weeks of rehearsals, 50 schoolchildren ranging from age 5 to 17 from Rutland and the surrounding area will perform the group’s sixth annual “Best Christmas Pageant Ever” show at the Paramount Theatre this Friday and Saturday.

Students from Fair Haven, Castleton, Rutland, Shrewsbury and West Rutland and other neighboring towns will perform the popular annual show three times this weekend — at 7 p.m. Friday and at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, December 20 and 21.

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Repertory Theatre to perform Dickens classic

The jolliest holiday of the year is built around tradition, and at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland it will be no different, as the Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre continues its annual holiday production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”

The story portraying the true meaning of Christmas will play out on the historic downtown stage Thursday and Friday evening, as core actors with ART and local actors carry on the four-year tradition.

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The ’50s all over again in Chester

CHESTER — It’s time to pull out those bobby socks and poodle skirts, because the 1950s musical comedy show “Laughing with the Legends” is kicking off the 24th season of the Green Mountain Festival Series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Green Mountain Union High School.

Proceeds from this show and others in the series are used to underwrite grants to bring arts into area classrooms. This year, the series has given out $20,000 in grants.

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‘Counting on Grace’

MSJ and Christ the King who will perform an adaptation of Elizabeth’s Winthrop’s novel “Counting on Grace,” a story inspired by photos of a Vermont girl, Adeline “Addie” Card taken by Lewis Hine who investigated child labor at the turn of the last century for the National Child Labor Committee. The performance is at Mount St. Joseph Academy’s Jennifer Bagley Theater on Friday and Saturday.

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‘Our Town’ comes to Bennington Nov. 21, 22

Seventy years after it was written by Thornton Wilder and then performed across the country, the timeless portrayal of everyday New England life in the classic “Our Town” comes to Green Mountain College this weekend.

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Local players joined the ‘Club’

The longest continuously operating community theater group in the state, the Marble Valley Players, will take center stage in West Rutland for three days, performing Ivan Menchell’s “The Cemetery Club.”

The witty comedy for all ages is set in a cemetery and tells the story of three Jewish widows who visit the graves of their deceased husbands each month until an eligible widower is thrown into the mix.

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Laughs from the Depression

Castleton State College will be getting the Broadway treatment for its latest show, “You Can’t Take It With You.”
In her CSC directorial debut, Broadway actress Susan Haefner will be dusting the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy with her big-league expertise, standing in this semester to teach acting and direct the show. The Theatre Arts Department production runs [...]

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Vermont Stage’s ‘Well’ serious and seriously funny

BURLINGTON — Lisa Kron’s “Well” starts out as a somewhat silly comedy but soon turns into a serious drama because it’s real.

Vermont Stage Company opened its 15th season of professional theater in Burlington last week with a production of this funny, endearing memoir.

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Latest ‘Judevine’ remains compelling

Even if you have already seen David Budbill’s “Judevine,” you haven’t seen what it has become in the new Lost Nation Theater production, which opened Sept. 19 at City Hall Arts Center in Montpelier.

For each time the Wolcott poet’s gritty Vermont drama is produced, it evolves into another — no more or less compelling — play.

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