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Vaudeville lives!
The first-ever Putney Vaudeville is presented by Next Stage Arts Project in collaboration with Strong Coffee Stage on Friday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill.
The bill includes stellar professional acts and a rousing live band, as well as assorted friends and neighbors displaying skills that may surprise you. The show also will invite good-natured audience engagement. Beer and wine flow from a J.D. McCliment's Pub cash bar.
Putney Vaudeville is the brainchild of teacher/director Rebecca Waxman and musician Peter Siegel, who joined forces with Bronwyn Sims and Patrick Donnelly of Strong Coffee Stage in the hope of launching an ongoing showcase for old-time entertainment and community talent.
Julian Gerstin of Westminster West has studied the music of Africa and the African diaspora for 40 years But only recently has he began to write it. Gerstin's bold, original music is inspired by the warmth of two suns as jazz horns meet the rhythmic traditions of West Africa...
Troy Wunderle is like that proverbial boy who ran away to join the circus. Only Wunderle wasn't so little when he left. And he's brought his circus home with him. Wunderle is the founder, in 2006, of Wunderle's Big Top Adventures (WBTA), based in Chester. WBTA promotes safe and...
It's a long way from the hills and fields of Vermont to the stage of the historic Paramount Theater in Springfield, Mass., but the Kurn Hattin Homes Select Choir completed the journey and came away champions. The Kurn Hattin Homes Select Choir was named Top Performer in the children's gospel category after making it through the final round of the choral competition series “Together in Song,” a show produced and aired by public television station WGBY in Springfield. The 40-member...
A world premiere of a concertino by a Chester composer complements works by Beethoven in the final series of performances of this year's Windham Orchestra season. “Beethoven in Vermont” will be performed in two concerts. The first is Thursday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m., in Calder Hall at the Currier Center at The Putney School. The second is the following Sunday, May 19, at 3 p.m., at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro. Under the direction of Hugh Keelan, the orchestra...
An exploration of the strange dimensions of memory and cultural identity inform a new piece of contemporary dance being developed at Vermont Performance Lab. Choreographer Dahlia Nayar, in collaboration with dancer Margaret Sunghe Paek, and with music composed by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, has been investigating ideas of belonging and not-belonging, the beauty and challenge of adapting to habitats scattered around the globe in contemporary society, and the nature of nostalgia. This month, Nayar returns with her collaborators for a creation...
Photographer David Holzapfel believes that sometimes art comes from the mundane, random accidents of life, such as when one's DVD player fails to work properly. That is the subject of his new series of photographs, “DwarfGlitch,” which he will be displaying at A Candle in the Night on 181 Main St. throughout May. A reception for the opening of the show is Friday, May 3, during Gallery Walk. Holzapfel explains, “'DwarfGlitch' comes from lived experience, from the techno-nonsense that is...
Edgar Allan Poe is coming back to life this May in Brattleboro. Portrayed by literary historian and playwright Rob Velella, the famed 19th century New England author will appear at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St., on Tuesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. In a theatrical performance entitled “Edgar Allan Poe: Love and Death,” Velella as Poe discusses his intertwining themes of love and death. “I portray Edgar A. Poe as if the writer/editor/critic had just risen from the dead,”
