WHITE RIVER JUNCTION The last time Jason Smoller, Northern Stage’s next managing director, and his wife lived in the Upper Valley 10 years ago, they lived off Colburn Park in Lebanon.This time they’ll live with their child in White River Junction,.
The nonprofit theater company, which announced Jason Smoller’s appointment as the next leader of the business side of its operations, has played a role in White River Junction’s revitalization.
A breezy saxophone tune fills the auditorium as the audience settles in. The set is an inviting interior: cozy sofa, a bar cart complete with a decanter of scotch, an upright piano, and of course, a towering Christmas tree twinkling with white lights.
Man vs. squirrel III sympathize with Dan Mackie, and everyone else hereabouts, who’s tearing their hair out over squirrels relentlessly raiding their black-oil sunflower seed stations with insouciant impunity. (“Over Easy: Yet more yard signs,” Nov..
In a further sign of the Upper Valley’s growing reach in the arts, the Thanksgiving week will offer art both global and local in scale that has ties to the area.First the global: Devotion, which can safely be called “a major motion picture,” is on.