Out & About: Quilt scavenger hunt brings patches to porches >Porch quilts painted by third-and-fourth graders at Randolph Elementary School are part of the East Valley Community Group s Porch Quilt Scavenger Hunt in July. (Rebbie Carleton photograph) Rebbie Carleton photograph >Porch quilts were hung at East Randolph Hall by the East Randolph Volunteer Fire Department to promote a scavenger hunt that is taking place through the East Valley and Randolph in July. (Elizabeth Lord photograph) Elizabeth Lord photograph >Porch quilts were hung at East Randolph Hall by the East Randolph Volunteer Fire Department to promote a scavenger hunt that is taking place through the East Valley and Randolph in July. (Elizabeth Lord photograph) Elizabeth Lord photograph
Actors in Flash Forward: Voices From the Future
(left to right) top: Ronni Lopez, Ro Boddie, Susan Palmer; center: John Nagle, Haley Rice, Gary Smith;
Among many other losses, the pandemic resulted in darkened stages and empty theater seats. But that, of course, is not the whole story: Thespians, like other performing artists, have found ways to keep on acting out. Even in the dead of winter, we have much theater news to report. So let the virtual curtain rise.
Middlebury Acting Company
, streaming Saturday, February 6, 7 p.m. Free. middleburyactors.org, townhalltheater.org
In addition to its monthly interactive play reading/discussion series, the American Dream Project,
For the performing arts in Vermont, 2020 was the year that wasnât. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic revealed many arts organizationsâ ability to redefine themselves â and for others it meant a complete shutdown.
January began optimistically with a splendid performance by the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anne Decker, of Menottiâs Christmas opera, âAmahl and the Night Visitorsâ at City Hall Arts Center. The Spice on Snow traditional music festival celebrated its 10th year, also in the capital.
Vermont Stage, the Burlington professional theater, mounted excellent productions of âRelativity,â by Mark St. Germain â in which Ron Crawford became Albert Einstein â and âMarie and Rosetta,â the rockinâ gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.