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General Auditions for Lost Nation Theater 2020 Season
LNT seeking Actors-Singers-Movers. (experience with puppetry helpful).
Auditions are by appointment Fri Jan 17 & Sat Jan 18 at Montpelier City Hall Arts Center.
Call backs will be held by invitation Sat Eve & Sun Jan 19 at Montpelier City Hall Arts Center.
Prepare 2 contrasting monologues and 16-32 bars of a song (optional) no longer than two total minutes. Bring a headshot and resume. Most roles open in most shows.
We are particularly focusing on Gruff-the Musical, and Into the Breeches.
Other shows in the season include Ragtime-the musical, and Les Filles de Quoi?
(These auditions are NOT for LNT's Young Company shows, but for LNT's professional mainstage shows).
For an appointment email: info@lostnationtheater.org
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1189425451448133/
1/17/20 7:00pm - 1/18/20 4:00pm
Lost Nation Theater, City Hall Arts Center, Montpelier
The Telling Project: New Vermonters on Migration
The story of displacement is a universal human story. Whether displaced through forces beyond our control, through choice, or even through the acceleration of cultural and technological evolution around us, all humans are marked by adaptation and re-orientation. Understanding this helps us understanding ourselves.
In 2019, after working for years with military veterans and their stories, The Telling Project officially launched this new initiative, "The Same Moon," creating performances in which immigrant and refugee populations had the opportunity to tell their stories to their communities. Whether generations past, or in their own lifetimes, every American citizen bears the legacy of displacement – an experience that has impacted, and unites, us all.
During the late summer and early fall KCP Presents will work with the nationally acclaimed Telling Project to meet with Vermonters who have power experiences of migration to share. Through a series of dialogues, we'll create a documentary theater script. Then we'll rehearse the performance to present this evening-length show.
1/18/20 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Northern Vermont University - Lyndon, Lyndonville
Out of Sight... Out of Murder
The Valley Players will present Out of Sight, Out of Murder by Fred Carmichael, January 17-19, 24-26, and Jan. 31-Feb. 2. Shows on Fridays and Saturdays are at 7 pm, and Sundays at 4 pm. The Valley Players Theater is located at 4254 Main Street in Waitsfield.
Out of Sight, Out of Murder was the first play to receive the Valley Players' Vermont Playwright Award in 1983. In the play, author Peter Knight (Jesse Putnam, Warren) is grinding out a murder story in an old mansion in Vermont where another author was murdered years before. A weird electrical storm effects a cosmic snafu and his characters come to life. There's the lovely ingenue (Aimee Clement, Waitsfield), the trusty butler (Brent Adams, Warren), a feisty character woman (Ruth Ann Pattee, Fayston), a dauntless hero (Louis Bronson, Warren), a fascinating "other woman" (Rachel Natvig, Northfield), the always pregnant serving girl (Marci Robinson, Warren), and the wily lawyer (Sal Spinosa, Waitsfield) waiting for midnight to read the will. Peter loses control of his characters and there is a murder; the intended victim is Peter. Other murders follow and the culprit is among characters who, having also worked for other authors, know a great deal about the subject. Charlotte Robinson, Warren, is also in the cast. The play is directed by Doug Bergstein, Warren, and stage managed by Mikki Nucci, Waitsfield. Jasper Mayone, Waitsfield, is the light operator.
Tickets are on sale now and are available by going to valleyplayers.com, or by calling 802-583-1674.
1/17/20 7:00pm - 2/2/20 4:00pm
Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield
Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro
The Telling Project - New Vermonters Share Their Stories Of Migration
KCP Presents
New Vermonters share their stories of migration.
Presented in association with the Highland Center for the Arts
Highland Center for the Arts
2875 Hardwick St.
Greensboro, VT
Tickets: $26. Students are free
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.
Save 20% when you buy by December 19. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.
Seniors and Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.
Highland Center for the Arts 2875 Hardwick St., Greensboro
Youth Program: Warriors Don't Cry at Pentangle Arts
Theatreworks presentation of a one-woman play that dramatizes Melba Patillo Beals's memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's central high. The performance is viewed through the lens of a contemporary young activist who questions: "What does a warrior look like? What is worth fighting for? Can a young person change the world?" Employing sophisticated video technology, original music, spoken word, poetry, and prose, the show will be a catalyst for deeper discussion about social responsibility, civil discourse, social media, community engagement and freedom.
1/23/20 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock
The Met Opera in HD: Akhanten
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo headlines American composer Philip Glass's transcendent contemporary creation, with Karen Kamensek conducting. Phelim McDermott's stunning production employs a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers to conjure a mystical reimagining of ancient Egypt.
Tickets: Adult $17
Child $10
AARP members $13.60
Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe
The Light in the Piazza
Director Douglas Anderson and music director Carol Christensen present the annual winter term musical, a collaboration of the Department of Music and Town Hall Theater. The soaring score harkens back to lyricist Adam Guettel's grandfather, Richard Rodgers. "The most intensely romantic score of any musical since West Side Story."—New York Times. Tickets: $20 Public/$15 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students; on sale January 9 at www.townhalltheater.org
1/24/20 7:30pm - 1/27/20 11:59pm
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury
National Theatre Live, the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world, presents the screening of "All My Sons". Academy Award-winner Sally Field and Bill Pullman star in Arthur Miller's blistering drama. America 1947, despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business. But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare. Tickets are $18 for adults, $12 for seniors, $5 for students and are available at bbatickets.com. For more information, please call our office at 802-867-0111 or visit www.greenmtnacademy.org.
Burr and Burton Academy, Riley Center for the Arts, Manchester
"The Drag: A Homosexual Comedy in Three Acts", by Mae West
Vermont Pride Theater presents a staged reading of "The Drag: A Homosexual Comedy in Three Acts", by Mae West. West, an early supporter of gay rights, considered her play to be a "comedy-drama of life". Set in the repressed 1920s, it's the riveting story of two love triangles which cross the lines of social and economic class and defy the sexual norms of the day. In its opening run in 1927 in NYC, the play was shut down after only 10 performances.
Tickets are available now, online www.chandler-arts.org or at the box office 802-728-9878.
-- Adults $22 in advance, $25 at the box office on the day of the show
-- Students $15 in advance, $18 at the box office on the day of the show
-- SNAP/3 Squares participants, $5 at the box office only
Student groups of 10 or more can purchase $8 tickets only by calling the box office in advance.
This is VPT's ninth annual winter benefit, the proceeds this year going to Vermont CARES, which works throughout the state to prevent the spread of the HIV virus and to connect those with HIV/AIDS with culturally sensitive medical care providers.
The performance will be followed by a talkback, and then a complimentary reception.
1/25/20 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Chandler Music Hall, Randolph
Bread and Puppet Theatre -The Bad Bedsheet Existibility Show Part 1 at TW Wood Gallery
The TW Wood gallery is pleased to present the work of Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater. This important show will be exhibited in both the Hallway and the Nuquist Gallery. The new exhibit features hundreds of new works, big and small, by Peter Schumann and his Bread and Puppet Theater. The exhibit will run from January 25th to February 20th, 2020. All shows are free and open to the public.
The Bread and Puppet Theater is a politically active puppet theater, founded by Peter Schumann in New York City in 1963 and based in Glover, Vermont since 1974.
The name Bread and Puppet is derived from the theater's practice of sharing its sourdough rye with the audience, and from its central principle that art is as basic as bread. The Bread and Puppet Theater participates locally in parades and is active at many statehouse marches in Montpelier.
Peter Schumann, Bread and Puppet's director, was born in 1934 in Silesia. Schumann was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread and Puppet Theater and in 1970 moved to Vermont, eventually settling in the Northeast Kingdom in Glover where the company still performs outdoor circuses and pageants all summer long. For more information visit Bread and Puppet Theater at: https://breadandpuppet.org.
Reception: February 7th, 4:00 – 8:00pm - In Conjunction with Art Walk
5:00pm - Bread and Puppet Performance: The Bad Bedsheet Existibility Show Part 2
Peter Schumann will perform a Fiddle Rant and along with Bread and Puppet members and volunteers a Contastoria Performance for "The Bad Bedsheet Existibility Show Part 1" at the reception. There will be live music and singing and bread and aoli will be served at the end of the performance as is tradition. Items from the Bread and Puppet Press will be available for perusal and purchase.
1/25/20 12:00pm - 2/20/20 4:00pm
T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier
No Strings Marionette Company's "Jack and the Beanstalk"
The action brings Jack from his humble cottage to the magnificent castle high above in the clouds. A sense of adventure and optimism and three magic beans catapult Jack high into the sky where his destiny awaits. With a nod to an ancient telling of the tale we discover if Jack, by taking gold and geese from the giant's castle, is a thief or if he is simply reclaiming his family's heritage. You'll thrill to the unexpected twists in this exciting production, which is tremendously suitable for people of all ages.
The afternoon begins with an interactive sing along where kids get to be part of the show and following Jack's adventure, No Strings' Dan Baginski and Barbara Paulson host an intimate question and answer session where everyone gets a closer look at the puppeteers trade.
Engage your senses inside the enchanting world of marionettes. No Strings' traveling stage transforms any space into an intimate theater, where the seamless blend of movement, music and masterful manipulation captivates young and old alike. With puppeteers in full view, the audience sees how the puppets are brought to life. These Vermont artisans lovingly hand craft the marionettes, props and scenery, whether for an original tale or an adaptation of a classic. Once the mind believes there are no strings...this realm becomes real...and the Adventure begins!
Barre Opera House, Barre
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