Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival
For more information, visit http://www.puppetsinthegreenmountains.com
Since 1997, the Puppets in the Green Mountains festival has become deeply embedded in the local community. With consistent, world-class programming, Sandglass Theater has partnered with local schools, social justice organizations and community businesses. This festival also connects our guest artists to the local population through home stays, meals hosted by community members and other meaningful celebrations. Audiences and community members have the opportunity to choose their own adventure, as it were, in selecting the festival activities in which they want to participate.
This year’s festival, Opening the Doors, builds on the themes introduced at the 2015 festival, Walking to the Borders, which focused on issues of immigration and humanization.
The upcoming festival features an impressive array of companies hailing from Wales, Taiwan, Canada, and around the United States, whose performances aim to foster a spirit of inclusion and play to both children and adult audiences. From a stirring performance by a mixed ability cast that takes a timely look at disadvantaged in today’s society, to Sandglass Theater’s own breakout piece that delves into the complicated issues of the refugee crisis, this year’s festival highlights stories of Access & Inclusion. The festival offers an invitation to open our doors, to listen and engage with the world of experiences around us.
This 10th edition of Puppets in the Green Mountains presents work that can speak to every person’s experiences and that share a world of infinite creative possibility. By melding both festival performances and community-wide discussions, Sandglass Theater seeks to underscore the powerful importance of the arts’ role in addressing and inspiring personal engagement with national and international issues from a community level.
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Actors Theatre Playhouse
Main St, West Chesterfield, N.H.
Sept 21-Oct 13: Florian Zeller’s intriguing and compelling black comedy “The Father.”
Brattleboro Music Center
38 Walnut St., Brattleboro
Oct 12, 7:30p: Russian Renaissance; Nov 15, 7:30: Escher Quartet.
Juno Orchestra
Sept 29, 7:30p; Sept 30, 3p: Two Bach Plus at BMC. Tickets: $10-$40; 802.257.4523, 380-9550 https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=bmcvt.
Latchis Theatre
50 Main St., Brattleboro
Sept 22: 80th Birthday Celebration; Oct 21: 7p, George Winston.
Main Street Arts
35 Main St., Saxtons River
Nov 9-11; 16-18: “Charles Henry’s Final Curtain,” a new and original vaudeville musical.
New England Center for Circus Arts
10 Town Crier Dr., Brattleboro
http://www.necenterforcircusarts.org
Oct 26-28: Circus Workshop Weekend: Workshops for all skill levels: Try something you’ve never done before or take advanced training in a specialty area.
New England Youth Theater
100 Flat St., Brattleboro
Oct 5-13, Fridays and Saturdays: “She Kills Monsters”; Oct 26-Nov 3, Fridays and Saturdays: “Peter Pan and Wendy”; Dec 6-16: Holiday Musical: “Rags.”
Next Stage Arts
15 Kimball Hill Road, Putney
Sept 12 and Nov 14 at 7p: “Fables Storytelling’; Sept 27, 7p: special edition of our [FRAMED] documentary series, featuring both an original film (“Hard Working Man”) and live concert with Danny Brooks & Lil Miss Debi with special guest Lou Erlanger; Oct 19, 7:30p: Ellis Paul; Nov 2, 7p: a program on resistance as part of its ongoing literary series; Nov 23, 7:30p: The Lonely Heartstring Band and The Stockwell Brothers.
Northern Stage
The Barrette Center for the Arts
74 Gates St., White River Junction
Sept 19-Oct 21: “Oslo”; Oct 4-28: “Dear Elizabeth”; Oct 15: YES Presents: “Bread and Roses, Too”; Nov 14-Jan 1, 2019: Roald Dahl’s “Matilda The Musical.”
Rock River Players
Williamsville Hall, Williamsville
http://www.rockriverplayers.org
Sept 21-23: “Justice? Just Us,” an original restorative justice music/theatre piece by Dan DeWalt, directed by DeWalt and Addie Mahdavi. Oct 11-13: “Twelve Angry Jurors” directed by Annie Landenberger.
Sandglass Theater
17 Kimball Hill, Putney
http://www.sandglasstheater.org
Sept 20-23: 2018 Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival; Oct 12-13, 7:30p: “Puppet Crimes”; Nov 24-25, 7p: “When I Put on Your Glove”; thru Nov 20 at Next Stage Arts, Putney: Artworks by Ines Zeller Bass.
Springfield Community Players
http://www.springfieldcommunityplayers.org
Oct 26-Oct 28 (matinee, 2p); Nov 2-3: “The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On,” directed by Donald Gray.
Stone Church Arts
20 Church Street, Bellows Falls
http://www.stonechurcharts.org
Sept 15: Ongtupqa: Hopi Music and Cultural Connections to Grand Canyon; Sept 22: The Steamboats; Sept 29: Vermont History Through Song; Oct 19-21: An Introduction to Celtic Shamanism with Jane Burns; Oct 20: Sound an Echo, Rachael Kilgour and Sara Pajunen, folk duo; Oct 27: “The Neo-Trad Experience” with Flynn Cohen and Duncan Wickel; Nov 2-4: A Heart for All: Awakening the Celtic Christ; Nov 3: Old World/New World: Timeless Sonatas, a benefit concert for Greater Falls Warming Shelter.
Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hill, Brattleboro
Sept 15: Etienne Charles and Creole Soul; Oct 12: Christian McBride and New Dawn Quartet; Nov 2-3: Emerging Artist Festival; Dec 7: VJC’s Annual Big Band Gala: A Tribute to Artie Shaw.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Sept 28: Statewide tour stops in Brattleboro. The Made in Vermont orchestra expands to include trumpets and timpani this fall, performing rousing works by Haydn and Brahms. Collaboration with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, presenting a new film by Robin Starbuck paired with a world premiere by Matthew LaRocca.
Vermont Theatre Company
http://www.vermonttheatrecompany.org
Sept 28-30 and Oct 5-7: Art by Yasmina Reza at Hooker-Dunham, Brattleboro; Dec 13-16: Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at Brattleboro Union High School Auditorium.
Wardsboro Curtain Call
Warsdboro Town Hall, Main St., Wardsboro
http://www.wardsborocurtaincall.net
Sept 29, 7p: Gail Wade Trio; Oct 20, 7p: Dan Frechette and Laurel Thomsen.
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company
703 Main St., Weston
http://www.westonplayhouse.org
Sept 27-Oct 21: “Two Trains Running.”
