Doug Anderson News

Looking for Joe will be performed in the Anderson Studio at Town Hall Theater on Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10 at 7pm with an approximate one-hour running time. Learn more here!

Town Hall Theater will present The Hollywood Musical: Part 2, a four-part class and film series led by Director in Residence Doug Anderson. The program examines the evolution of the Hollywood movie musical from the 1950s through the present.

Town Hall Theater in Middlebury will run The Hollywood Musical, a four-part class and movie series led by Doug Anderson, Mondays Oct 27–Nov 24 at 7 p.m. on the Rothrock Mainstage.

Birdland presented Ernie Haase & Signature Sound in “A Jazzy Little Christmas” on Monday, December 2. Check out photos from the show. 

Town Hall Theater is celebrating by inviting seven local poets to share their work with the community. A free event, the THT Poetry Café will have a relaxed vibe, with table seating and drinks and snacks on offer.

History Theatre has announced the return of an annual classic, Happy Holi-Dane! Back by popular demand, this ever-changing Holiday Hullabaloo is a warm and wonderful night for the whole family! Tickets on sale now!

The Opera Company of Middlebury has announcedthe merger of the pioneering teen performance program, the Youth Opera Company of Vermont (YOC), with the OCM Education and Outreach division. Learn more about what this means for the company here!

A fixture of Middlebury’s music scene for more than 25 years, pianist Chuck Miller is retiring to Florida — so a number of eminent Vermont jazz players and vocalists will join him at the local Town Hall Theater on Thursday, Aug. 31, for a performance that’s billed as “Chuck’s Last Jam.”

The Bryant Park Reading Room announced August’s lineup. The 2019 African American Literary Award’s Break Out Author Of The Year, LaTonya Yvette, joins on August 10th with her children’s book, “The Hair Book,” along with Emily St. John Mandel, who has just been added to Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List, on August 3rd to discuss her latest book.

Once again, Jim Caruso’s Cast Party took the show on the road, celebrating talent at Crooners Supper Club in Minneapolis, rated one of the top clubs in the world by Downbeat Magazine. Check out photos here!

People know Doug Anderson as the local impresario who created Town Hall Theater and the Opera Company of Middlebury.  But the community is about to see him in a new role: the composer of a new musical.  

A production of a Stephen Sondheim musical is always an event, but the master composer's recent death gives the upcoming Middlebury production a new poignancy. 

Opera Company of Middlebury has announced a new screening of their revolutionary filmed production of Candide at Town Hall Theater on September 1 and 2 at 7pm. OCM's streaming film of Candide has thrilled people all over the world, and now it returns for two nights on the big screen at Town Hall Theater.

The Opera Company of Middlebury presents an imaginative retelling of Bernstein's comic operetta Candide, streaming online June 15-30. Although the production contains traditional theatrical elements, it also embraces the magic of 21st century technology. Using drones, green screen imagery, rear projections, and other cinematic techniques, the Opera Company of Middlebury is exploring the boundaries of opera's potential.

Forest Hills, Queens, New York City-based actor and cabaret star Stephen S. Miller, the co-host of the new talk show 'Tawkin’ with the Roses' will be returning to London-based Harold Sanditen's Open Mic Party on Thursday, March 11, 2021 for a Disney-themed show.

Town Hall Theater will present THT Artistic Director Doug Anderson's “A History of the American Musical” four-class series, beginning Monday, March 8th.

It was an experiment, and no one was sure it would work: a live production of a play, with actors spread out across the country, streaming live on YouTube. The play was Doug Anderson's The Beams Are Creaking, based on the life of German minister and resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has today announced the nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards.

Director Doug Anderson works with professional actors and singers, talented Middlebury College students, and the best local talent, but once a year he gets to do what he calls his 'dream job': working with teenagers.

The Broadway musical is America's greatest contribution to the arts. It's a glorious, jazzy, star-studded and surprisingly turbulent history, one that remains largely unknown even to people who love musicals.