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Celebrating the kickoff of the 15th year, the New England Youth Theatre's artistic director, Stephen Stearns, will direct the return of “Oliver!”
This musical, based on a novel by Charles Dickens, was the last show that NEYT performed seven years ago in its original space in the Latchis complex before the company moved from a former Chinese restaurant to its new theater on Flat Street.
Returning to “Oliver!” is a sentimental journey for those involved with NEYT, including cofounder Gerald Stockman.
“At the end of the last performance there, each of the cast members chose a prop from the production and together paraded down Flat Street to NEYT's new theater, which had been constructed but in which nothing had yet been performed,” Stockman says. “Doing 'Oliver!' again gives us a chance to recall that highly emotional moment which was a cause for great celebration.”...
Three major arts organizations are joining forces this Thanksgiving weekend for a novel “Weekend of the Arts” in Putney. The Putney Craft Tour, Next Stage Arts Project, and Sandglass Theater are waving one banner for what Ken Pick, potter and one of the founders of the Putney Craft Tour,
Margo Torrey, one of the founders of the Putney Craft Tour 35 years ago, says she's amazed how her idea for arts patrons to visit artists in their studios has grown and flourished. “Initially we were just a small group of people who work in craft, 13 of us,
Next Stage Arts Project presents a screening of “The Central Park Five,” a documentary by David McMahon, Ken Burns, and Burns' elder daughter, Sarah, on Friday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. This event is a benefit for Next Stage Arts, which is organizing a full schedule of year-round events such as classical and folk/rock music concerts, spoken word events, vaudeville, and theatrical performances. The suggested donation is $10. Sarah Burns, as one of the film's co-directors and the author of...
Puppeteer Eric Bass has performed his award-winning “Autumn Portraits” many times over the years. On Saturday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m., he offers a special presentation of his beloved fall classic at the Sandglass Theater on Kimball Hill. A signature piece for Bass, Sandglass' artistic director, “Autumn Portraits” has been performed for 30 years to great acclaim in theaters and festivals throughout Australia, Europe, Israel, and the United States. As Sandglass notes on its website, Bass is sole performer in...
A father and daughter, both talented musicians and former Vermonters, are returning to Brattleboro with a concert dedicated to two the greatest musicians in all of jazz. On Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. at its studio in the Cotton Mill, Open Music Collective presents vocalist Melissa Shetler and her father, Scott Shetler on sax, in a “Lady Day and Prez Tribute Show,” honoring singer Billie Holiday and tenor saxophonist Lester Young. Joining the Shetlers: guitarist Rudolph Vernaz-Colas, house bassist Jamie...
Fiddler Peter Siegel encourages you to join the fun at the Brattleboro Contra Dance at the Stone Church, at the corner of Main and Grove streets, just north of the post office. “We honor our local participants as we showcase bands from around the country,” he says. Meeting on the second (well, mostly) and fourth Sundays of each month at 7 p.m., Brattleboro Contra Dance, affiliated with the national Country Dance and Song Society (www.cdss.org), recently organized as an educational...
Who says silent movies have to be silent? In fact, they never were. Historically, the motion pictures of the silent era were backed by piano, organ, and sometimes a whole orchestra. In that way, they were closer to live stage performances than the movies we see today. Often the showing of silent films included acts by singers, dancers, and other vaudeville performers. On Saturday, Nov. 16, The Commons brings some of that cinematic excitement to life in presenting “Nosferatu,” F.
