Richard Henke
A cautionary tale
Don McLean is producing a staged reading by Guilford Center Stage that asks a timely question: Could it happen here?
“Timely” may be an odd word for a work based on a semi-satirical political novel written in 1935 during the heyday of fascism in Europe.
Honoring the water protectors
In a new book and a re-release, photographer John Willis assembles images of Oglala Lakota Sioux, Standing Rock resistance
This fall, southern Vermont photographer John Willis has two books in the works. George F. Thompson Publishing, in association with the American Land Publishing Project, has just released a new edition of Willis's celebrated book of photographs of the Oglala Lakota Sioux community at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Views...
The game is afoot!
Baker Street Readers launch second season with ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’
James Gelter didn't know just how good an idea he had. Last year, he devised the project to form the Baker Street Readers, which would give monthly public readings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories at the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery. That venture proved so successful that...
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‘Making a movie is like throwing a party: you just see who shows up’
Next Stage presents Jay Craven's 2016 seaside drama film, Peter and John, as part of its Framed hosted film series, on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 at 7 p.m. Based on the 19th century novel Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant, Peter and John tells the story of two brothers whose relationship strains when the younger one receives news of an unexpected inheritance, a dire situation compounded when they both fall for the same woman. Directed by Craven, Peter and...
Related works
Juno Orchestra enters its third season with an exploration entitled “Family Connections.” Along with works appearing from well-known musical households such as Bach and Mozart, Juno also introduces a newly commissioned work by a local composer for his son. Formed in 2017 and conducted by Zon Eastes, Juno is a chamber orchestra made up of 20 to 25 professional musicians from the area around Brattleboro, including Vermont, New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts. Eastes says he wanted to create a chamber-sized...
Going big
Any performance of Tristan und Isolde is an event, but the presentation in a small New England town of Richard Wagner's musical paean to erotic love is positively a phenomenon. Tristan und Isolde is a massive work that requires superb singers and an enormous orchestra, as well as a gifted conductor able to cope with all of this. Because of the demands it makes on producers and performers, it is rarely performed outside of big cities with major opera houses.
Remixing Richard
How little does it take to put on a Shakespeare play effectively? Actor and writer Alex Hacker of Analog Players thinks a stellar production can be done with the simplest of resources. On Thursday, Aug. 22, at 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23 and 24, at 8 p.m., Analog Players brings to the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery a truly unique Shakespearean performance for two actors and two puppets, King Dick, a.k.a., Richard III. ”This will be a much...
More music, still free
Southern Vermont is a rich place for music in the summer. Along with the well-established Marlboro Music and Yellow Barn, a relatively recent festival originating in Jamaica is becoming an eagerly anticipated part of the musical scene. Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival will celebrate its eighth season with the music of Caroline Shaw, Joan Tower, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and more. The Grammy-nominated and awarded musicians of PFCM, along with the Pikes Falls Baroque Ensemble and NakedEye Ensemble, will perform...