By Bill Lockwood By Bill Lockwood SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — After being forced to cancel their celebratory 100th anniversary season last spring, the Springfield Community Players have come up with a first step to brighten a dreary winter and bring back live, full-length plays to many community theater-starved actors, crew, and[Read More…]
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Walpole Players leading theater’s return with staged reading on the Common
By Bill Lockwood By Bill Lockwood The Walpole Players will present a staged reading of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 5 p.m. on the Walpole Town Common. In the case of inclement weather, the performance will take place the following Saturday, Sept. 19.[Read More…]
Springfield Community Players still planning 100th anniversary season
By Bill Lockwood Springfield Community Players have now postponed their production of “Marjorie Prime” that was set to open on May 15. The play has been cast, and the actors were ready to start rehearsals, and it would have opened the organization’s celebratory 100th anniversary season, but it now joins[Read More…]
Stage 33 Live provides opportunities for local, regional artists
By Layla Burke Hastings [email protected] BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. — A brief, two-minute walk from downtown, Stage 33 Live is an intimate listening room with the echoes of industrial architecture and an incomparable natural acoustic sound that attracts music lovers from all over New England. Just an idea in 2016, the[Read More…]
Kids shine as Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ goes big
By Mark Kennedy Associated Press NEW YORK — The cast of “To Kill a Mockingbird” ditched its somber Broadway home Wednesday for the cavernous Madison Square Garden, performing the play for 18,000 school kids in an electric one-time-only performance that one actor called “primal.” It marks the first time a[Read More…]
Main Street Arts presents ‘Cabaret’ at the Bellows Falls Opera House
By Bill Lockwood Main Street Arts of Saxtons River, Vt., has selected the fascinating musical “Cabaret” as its big spring stage production at the Bellows Falls Opera House this year that will run March 13-15 and 19-21 at 7:30 p.m. with matinees March 14 and 21 at 2 p.m. The[Read More…]
Walpole Players announce auditions for ‘Wind in the Willows’
WALPOLE PLAYERS The Walpole Players have announced auditions for their summer production of a musical version of the classic children’s tale “The Wind in the Willows.” They will take place Sunday, March 8 at 5:00 p.m. and Wednesday, March 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the Helen Miller Theater on the[Read More…]
Chorus holiday program features classics that feel familiar
By Jim Lowe [email protected] MONTPELIER, Vt. — Although Onion River Chorus’ holiday program, “A Child is Born: A German Christmas,” centers mostly on 17th century music, much of it will be familiar to today’s audiences. “So much of this program, in fact almost all of it, is pieces based explicitly[Read More…]
Restored classic sci-fi ‘Metropolis’ to screen at the Colonial Theatre
KEENE, N.H. — A silent film hailed as the grandfather of all science fiction fantasy movies will be screened with live music at the Colonial Theatre in Keene. Released in 1927, “Metropolis,” an epic adventure set in a futuristic world, will be shown on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 at 2[Read More…]
Celebrate this beautiful time of year with LNT’s ‘Stories for the Season’
LNT MONTPELIER, Vt. — On Wednesday, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m., many of your favorite Lost Nation Theater (LNT) artists will gather to present dramatic readings of stories, poems, & song from around the world. The return of the light and the peaceful magic of this winter season is heralded[Read More…]