BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro School of Dance's annual spring show, "Shadows & Glimmers: An Evening of Dance,"
BRATTLEBORO-On May 18, at 7:30 p.m., the Vermont Jazz Center will present Artemis, voted the...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of Scottish, Americana, and Québécois...
SAXTONS RIVER-Join local artist Stephanie Sullivan at an artist reception for a new gallery show,
For the first time in more than five years, pedestrians can safely set foot on the historic Scott Covered Bridge. A contractor has finished an extensive, $2.35 million rehabilitation of the wooden structure that stretches 277 feet over the West River in Townshend. Despite its expense, the project was not aimed at restoring motorized traffic: Only pedestrians and bicycles are allowed on the bridge. But officials say they had no choice but to make a significant investment in the 147-year-old...
In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “For years I labored with the idea of reforming existing institutions of society [through] a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values.” By the 1960s, his political analysis was evolving; his conceptions of racial justice would now embrace political democracy and economic democracy. Questioning capitalism and its partner, imperialism, would...
British playwright Sir David Hare's “The Breath of Life” is this week's Saturday Staged Reading at the Actors Theatre Playhouse, featuring Terri Storti and Shoshana Rihn. Performances are Sept. 7 and 14, at 7:30 p.m. Burt Tepfer directs. Staged readings, part of the Actors Theatre Playhouse's programming for many seasons, enables actors to sit at at a table and fully perform with script in hand. These aren't concert readings, but rather are fully realized performances - sans scenery and staging.
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