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Award-winning playwright and performance artist Deb Margolin joins students from Marlboro College's “Borders, Boundaries, and Crossings” performance seminar in a show of solo works in progress.
The event is Monday, May 5, at 7 p.m. at the school's Whittemore Theater. Admission is free.
Students Laura-Rainbow Stakiwicz, Olivia Schaaf, John Marinelli, Peter Scibak, and Sophie Tulip will present work they developed in the seminar under visiting performance artist Carmelita Tropicana and Marlboro theater professor Brenda Foley.
Margolin is an associate professor at Yale University's undergraduate theater studies program, a founding member of Split Britches Theater Company, and a Village Voice Obie Award winner for sustained excellence in performance for solo work.
One floor below street level in a former shoe warehouse at 139 Main St., the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery will have a new director this month. Hooker-Dunham's current manager, Barry Stockwell, is stepping down this month after having run the center for arts, culture, and public gatherings since 2007.
Following last year's successful Vermont performances of “Trial by Jury,” the Amherst, Mass.-based Valley Light Opera (VLO) is returning to Brattleboro for a second year to perform Gilbert and Sullivan's “H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor.” In an energetic, funny, and somewhat silly show, “Pinafore” pokes...
Alisa Hauser, a member of the original Broadway cast of the musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” has directed and choreographed a junior version of that high spirited show for The Grammar School in Putney. On April 30 and May 1, 2, and 3, at 7 p.m., in two separate casts, all TGS seventh and eighth graders will perform in “Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr.” at the school auditorium at 69 Hickory Ridge Rd. The musical tells the story of “a small-town girl,
“I've come here tonight to set your souls on fire,” The Beehive Queen tells her audiences. And that's what she plans to do Saturday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m., when Next Stage Arts Project presents Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez. The flashy, platinum-blonde singer/songwriter Christine Ohlman, a.k.a. The Beehive Queen, is the longtime vocalist with NBC's Saturday Night Live Band. When she's not working at NBC, she sings with her own band, Rebel Montez, which includes Massachusetts guitar legend Cliff...
On May 31, 2009, Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kan., one of the few doctors in the United States then performing third-trimester abortions, became the eighth American abortion clinic worker to be assassinated after Roe v. Wade. Four American doctors openly provide the procedure today: LeRoy Carhart, Warren Hern, Susan Robinson, and Shelley Sella, who risk their lives to do work that many believe constitutes murder but that these doctors and their millions of supporters believe is profoundly important for...
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States gave rise to a surge of prejudice against those perceived to be from Muslim backgrounds and countries. Owing to a relatively poor understanding here of Muslim religion and culture, those attitudes persist in some quarters to this day. In an attempt to change those attitudes, Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro presents “Muslim Journeys: Literary Reflections in Islam,” a five-part reading and discussion series led by Amer Latif, Marlboro College professor of...
Composer Paul Dedell and puppeteer Finn Campman found inspiration for their new work, “Three in the Wilderness,” in an early form of dramaturgy, or medieval mystery play. Based on Gospel stories of the three temptations of Christ, “Three in the Wilderness” combines words, song, and dance to tell its tale. The show features original puppets designed and built by Campman, who will “bring them to life” with fellow puppeteers Helen Schmidt and Kirk Murphy. Other performers include singers Tony Barrand...
