The Flynn has announced its 2021-2022 Broadway season, which welcomes fan-favorite blockbusters, side-splitting improv theater, and shows that appeal to the whole family. The season gets started with the much-anticipated return of the annual showcase Burlington Does Broadway on December 31.
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The 2021 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival won't be the biggest. And it probably won't be the best. Considering the festival's storied 38-year run, that's a.
JACK Quartet Around these parts, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival is known as the gateway to summer. Normally, the annual 10-day event reaches nearly every square inch of downtown, with scores of nightclubs, bars and restaurants hosting music under the BDJF banner, not to mention venues such as the Flynn, Flynn Space, Waterfront Park and Church Street Marketplace. The jazz fest took a pandemic-induced hiatus last year and was replaced by a fully online alternative, the Burlington ReDiscover Jazz Festival. The virtual fest was a valiant effort under dismal circumstances, but there s nothing like the real thing. So Tuesday s announcement of the BDJF s return has us all doing the Snoopy dance.
In September,
Jay Wahl and his partner took a six-week vacation near Maine s Acadia National Park. They hadn t left their Philadelphia home in six months. As he unwound amid the rugged splendor of the Bold Coast, he frequently wondered,
Could I live here? For Wahl, here meant not just Downeast Maine, but New England generally. He s about to find out. Shortly after Wahl returned to Philly in October, the Flynn offered him its executive director position and, with it, an opportunity to move to Burlington. Accepting meant not only leaving the city but also ending his 11-year tenure at Philadelphia s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where he d served as producing artistic director. Wahl s hiring was announced on December 21, and he officially became the head of Vermont s largest performing arts organization on January 1.