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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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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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