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Did you see the puppets?

Audiences will be moved and have their heartstrings pulled during the Puppets in the Green Mountains festival, today through Sunday, September 21.

This is the sixth incarnation of the festival since its founding by Eric Bass and Ines Zeller Bass in 1997.

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‘Hamlet’: A tragedy delivered

Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has been characterized as an internal battle between moral integrity and the desire for revenge as well as that of perception versus reality. Regardless, it is one of the blackest and most powerful works in English literature.

Shakespeare & Company, a respected professional touring theater company based in Lenox, Mass., will present its visually and theatrically powerful production of this great tragedy on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre.

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Did you like ‘As You Like it’?

Seventeenth-century prose will meet early 20th-century Ireland when the Weston Playhouse Theater Co. closes its summer season with William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” opening today and running through Sept. 6.

This will be only the second Shakespeare production at the playhouse in nine years — besides “Twelfth Night” in 1999 — said producing director Steve Stettler.

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Sover Scene: Dynamic theater troupe takes hold of epic ideas

Spectacle, experimental, physical, traditional. These are the various theatrical forms that actor and mask designer Kali Quinn, co-founder of GUTWorks Theater, recently used to describe the company’s highly acclaimed stage production, “This is the Place of Parting,” which will be performed throughout Windham County starting Aug. 29 at the Bellows Falls Opera House.

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‘Butterfly’ retains its sting

LEBANON, N.H. — Who else could tear your heart out and leave you asking for more? Giacomo Puccini, perhaps more than any other opera composer, tears at the heart strings — sensually and beautifully.

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A summer tour of “The Winter’s Tale”

Rutland Youth Theatre is taking its Shakespeare in the Park show on the road for five performances in the next four days through August 11, 2008.

The cast of 11, ranging in age from 13 to 18, will perform William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” tonight at Tinmouth School, followed by performances in Middlebury, Belmont and two in Rutland.

The cast is primarily made up of experienced actors, many of whom have performed together with the Youth Theatre for the past four or five years.

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One woman show is a tour de force

WESTON — At a decaying New York City high school, Miss Sun, an aspiring actress, is brought in to teach theater to perhaps the worst class of 10th graders in the entire school system.

She attempts to get them to put on a play, and for the six weeks allotted to the project, she cajoles, fights, runs from and loves her difficult charges.

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Summer Shakespeare: Poultney Summer Theatre to present ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’

The Poultney Summer Theatre Company will present its production of William Shakespeare’s comedy “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” eight times between tonight and Aug. 3.

Under the direction of Gary Meitrott, the founder of the summer theater group, a cast of 12 people have been rehearsing since June.

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Sover Scene: Midsummer plight of parents

From Friday through Sunday, the New England Youth Theatre in Brattleboro fills the stage with slightly wackier merriment in a rendition of “Aladdin and his Magic Lamp” that has young actors employing the delightfully lighthearted clown-and-mime methods of local thespian legends Gould & Stearns. Intended for audiences older than 4, the show includes kids impersonating tornadoes, crystal balls and sultans amidst an atmosphere of melodramatic mystery and inventive comedy.

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