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BWW Review: PRIVATE LIVES at Vermont Stage Company
Three acts, three directors, three approaches to the same play script. Vermont Stage Company's annual season closer allows artists to play and experiment--this year, with Noel Coward's 1930 play Private Lives. Larry Connolly, Chris Caswell and Abbie Tykocki direct the three acts independent of one a...
BWW Review: Lost Nation's HAIRSPRAY is a Non-Stop Delight
Lost Nation Theater opened a high-energy production of the musical HAIRSPRAY last week at Montpelier's City Hall Arts Center. With music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, and book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, HAIRSPRAY opened on Broadway in 2002 and went on to win ei...
BWW Reviews: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Opens at FlynnSpace
FlynnArts Summer Youth Theater opened ONCE ON THIS ISLAND on Thursday, July 30 at the FlynnSpace at Burlington's Flynn Center for Performing Arts....
BWW Reviews: NEW DIRECTIONS SHOWCASE Gives Young Directors A Chance
Cabot Community Theatre's NEW DIRECTIONS SHOWCASE opens this Friday at the Cabot School Performing Arts Center....
BWW Reviews: British Music Hall Humor Comes Alive with FlynnArts' DROOD
FlynnArts Summer Youth Theater opened THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD on Thursday, July 31 at Burlington's FlynnSpace at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts....
BWW Reviews: FlynnArts Opens a Chilling CARRIE
FlynnArts Summer Youth Theater opened CARRIE, THE MUSICAL on Thursday July 18 at Burlington's FlynnSpace at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts....
BWW Reviews: Lost Nation's THE LAST 5 YEARS Marks New Theater Initiatives
Lost Nation Theater has long been a leader in bringing the performing arts to new Vermont audiences, and the organization's latest innovations are no exception. Lost Nation announced two new initiatives last week aimed at attracting a broader theater-going audience: LNTix and LNT Afterhours....
BWW Reviews: Northern Stage's THE SPITFIRE GRILL is a Must See
I have seen the movie version of The Spitfire Grill on multiple occasions. I had taken a liking to it for a couple different reasons. The movie was set in Gilead, Maine, which I grew up about 20 minutes from. The film was shot on locations near where I currently live and where I attended college. At...
BWW Reviews: Lost Nation's OUR TOWN Hits the Mark
Lost Nation Theater continues its presentation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, OUR TOWN, through April 27 at Montpelier's City Hall Arts Center. First produced in New York City in 1938, the play enjoyed four subsequent Broadway revivals, making it one of the best-known pieces of cl...
BWW Reviews: JUST A WELDER Offers Witty, Insightful Humor
A new one-man show, JUST A WELDER, written and performed by Richard Klovdah opens tonight at the Valley Players Theater in Waitsfield, VT....
BWW Reviews: Lost Nation's THE CRUCIBLE is Frightening and Powerful
Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE is now playing at Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier, VT. Based on actual people and events surrounding the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693, Miller's play examines social paranoia and judicial power, themes that struck a particularly strong chord in the era of McCart...
BWW Reviews: PIRATES Invades with a Boatload of Fun
The Stowe Theater Guild's delightful presentation of the beloved Gilbert & Sullivan classic, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, is now playing at the Town Hall Theatre in Stowe, Vermont. The story opens as Frederic (James Blanchard) is released from his apprenticeship to a band of pirates notorious for their ...
BWW Reviews: Puppets Plague the Future in THE PUPPET SHOPPE
Tony Award-winning shows like THE LION KING, WAR HORSE, and AVENUE Q have made extensive use of puppets on Broadway, but imaginative puppetry isn't limited to New York stages. The Off Center for the Dramatic Arts and The Saints & Poets Production Company present Chris Caswell's THE PUPPET SHOPPE, a ...
BWW Reviews: PARASITE DRAG Seethes with Family Drama
The Waterbury Festival Playhouse offers up something dark this season: Mark Roberts' PARASITE DRAG. ('Parasite drag' is an aeronautical term that refers to the resistance caused by parts of an aircraft that don't contribute to lift.) This psychological drama tells the story of a family ripped apart ...
BWW Reviews: THIS VERSE BUSINESS Paints a Compelling Portrait of Robert Frost
Lost Nation Theater's presentation of ROBERT FROST: THIS VERSE BUSINESS opened on September 7 at City Hall Arts Center in Montpelier, Vermont. Emmy Winner and Tony Nominee Gordon Clapp portrays the iconic American poet in A.M. Dolan's one-man play, under the direction of Gus Kaikkonen....
BWW Reviews: Weston Playhouse Presents NEXT TO NORMAL
Weston, Vermont may be the epitome of a small town. But tucked away on Park Street is a Goliath of a summer theater. Weston Playhouse is Vermont's oldest professional theater and that long-standing history continues this summer with their production of Next To Normal....
BWW Reviews: Northern Stage 'Makes You Believe' With PETER PAN
After taking Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off, Peter Pan plays through January 6th, 2013, at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction, Vermont....
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