Productions and Events

The Theatre Department invites new and returning students to Curtain Up!

Meet the theatre majors and minors, the faculty and staff of the department and learn what we have in store for this semester and beyond!

Psst! There will be pizza!!

Mark your calendars for the 31st annual first show!

Scenes performed by students new to the Middlebury stage. 

Mark your calendars for the 31st annual first show!

Scenes performed by students new to the Middlebury stage. 

Mark your calendars for the 31st annual first show!

Scenes performed by students new to the Middlebury stage. 

Mark your calendars for the 31st annual first show!

Scenes performed by students new to the Middlebury stage. 

On a clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not what it seems in the remote town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways.

Directed by Professor Alex Draper

Please join us for a post-show talkback with the company after the Friday performance.

On a clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not what it seems in the remote town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways.

Directed by Professor Alex Draper

Please join us for a post-show talkback with the company after the Friday performance.

On a clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not what it seems in the remote town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways.

Directed by Professor Alex Draper

Please join us for a post-show talkback with the company after the Friday performance.

On a clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not what it seems in the remote town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways.

Directed by Professor Alex Draper

Please join us for a post-show talkback with the company after the Friday performance.

Celebrate your loved ones & heroes throughout October and join us in a community Procession. We’ll walk past vibrant altars in honor of the dead and enjoy lively performances and tasty refreshments!

Antigone by Sophocles examines the conflict between personal beliefs and state authority. Written around 442 BCE, it is one of Sophocles’ earliest surviving plays and part of the Theban cycle. The story focuses on Antigone’s refusal to obey King Creon’s order. She prioritizes divine laws by burying her brother Polynices. The drama unfolds in Thebes, which faces political instability after a civil war.

Antigone by Sophocles examines the conflict between personal beliefs and state authority. Written around 442 BCE, it is one of Sophocles’ earliest surviving plays and part of the Theban cycle. The story focuses on Antigone’s refusal to obey King Creon’s order. She prioritizes divine laws by burying her brother Polynices. The drama unfolds in Thebes, which faces political instability after a civil war.

Antigone by Sophocles examines the conflict between personal beliefs and state authority. Written around 442 BCE, it is one of Sophocles’ earliest surviving plays and part of the Theban cycle. The story focuses on Antigone’s refusal to obey King Creon’s order. She prioritizes divine laws by burying her brother Polynices. The drama unfolds in Thebes, which faces political instability after a civil war.

Antigone by Sophocles examines the conflict between personal beliefs and state authority. Written around 442 BCE, it is one of Sophocles’ earliest surviving plays and part of the Theban cycle. The story focuses on Antigone’s refusal to obey King Creon’s order. She prioritizes divine laws by burying her brother Polynices. The drama unfolds in Thebes, which faces political instability after a civil war.

Oakwood is a North Hollywood apartment complex that houses young performers and their guardians during brief, hopeful stays in Los Angeles. Around the kids linger the half-permanent residents of a transient industry: an aging acting coach, a struggling actress who never left, college kids drawn by the cheap rent and dorm-like atmosphere. In Oakwood, nearly everyone is passing through, and nearly everyone is under pressure—to succeed, to belong, and to make the sacrifices mean something.

The Dogteam Theatre Project provides transformative experiences for emerging and professional artists, creating meaningful theatrical engagements for diverse audiences. Among its programs, the Dogteam Theatre Project provides training opportunities for emerging theatre artists in playwriting and design disciplines.

Come see the new work!

In the Manhattan penthouse of reclusive, Nobel-nominated writer Ula Richte, a carefully staged interview with a Polish journalist is meant to cement her legacy. With her agent and lawyer steering every word, the evening begins under tight control—until the script falls apart. What follows is an unguarded reckoning with the dark side of success, the cost of denying one’s roots, and the fierce, exhilarating courage it takes to tell the truth.

The Dogteam Theatre Project provides transformative experiences for emerging and professional artists, creating meaningful theatrical engagements for diverse audiences. Among its programs, the Dogteam Theatre Project provides training opportunities for emerging theatre artists in playwriting and design disciplines.
Come see the new work!

Please join the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Dance, German, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, Philosophy, Russian, and Theatre for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines. 

The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.

Arabic | MAC 221 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Dance | MAC Dance Theatre (110) | 3:30-4:15 pm

Japanese Studies | MAC 232 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Russian | MAC 125 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Theatre | Seeler Studio Theatre | 3:30-4:15 pm

Chinese | MAC 232 | 4:45-5:30 pm

German | MAC 121 | 4:45-5:30 pm

Luso-Hispanic Studies | Seeler Studio Theatre | 4:45-5:30 pm

Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners from 1901 – 1913. It’s three acts are, “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, the play depicts the simple daily lives of the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – die.

Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners from 1901 – 1913. It’s three acts are, “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, the play depicts the simple daily lives of the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – die.

Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners from 1901 – 1913. It’s three acts are, “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, the play depicts the simple daily lives of the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – die.

Tierra del Sol is a community-based ballet folklorico whose aim is to preserve, present, and promote Mexican cultural heritage through traditional dance and music. They will share the rich beauty and diversity of the dances, history, and costumes of Mexico in this matinee event, alongside Middlebury dancers. This performance is the culminating event of their current Rothrock Residency working with Middlebury students. 

Free. No tickets required. Approximate running time: 75 minutes with a 10 minute intermission. A Q&A with the artists will follow the performance. 

Sponsored by the Rothrock Family Residency Fund for Experiential Learning in the Performing Arts. Learn more about the artists:  https://sites.google.com/site/tierradelsolboston/

BIGFOOT BY Meghan Endres Brown
Alyssa and Holly Auburn are two sisters reuniting after years of silence. We unpack their history while the presence of Bigfoot himself looms ever closer. Hannah Alberti’s (‘26) senior 700 work in acting, Alex Garcia’s (‘26) senior 700 work in lighting design, and Evan Berger’s (‘26.5) 500 work in scenic design.

Ticket sales for this show start 2 weeks before opening.
Tickets $5. go/bigfoot/ for tickets

BIGFOOT BY Meghan Endres Brown
Alyssa and Holly Auburn are two sisters reuniting after years of silence. We unpack their history while the presence of Bigfoot himself looms ever closer. Hannah Alberti’s (‘26) senior 700 work in acting, Alex Garcia’s (‘26) senior 700 work in lighting design, and Evan Berger’s (‘26.5) 500 work in scenic design.

Ticket sales for this show start 2 weeks before opening.
Tickets $5. go/bigfoot/ for tickets

BIGFOOT BY Meghan Endres Brown
Alyssa and Holly Auburn are two sisters reuniting after years of silence. We unpack their history while the presence of Bigfoot himself looms ever closer. Hannah Alberti’s (‘26) senior 700 work in acting, Alex Garcia’s (‘26) senior 700 work in lighting design, and Evan Berger’s (‘26.5) 500 work in scenic design.

Ticket sales for this show start 2 weeks before opening.
Tickets $5. go/bigfoot/ for tickets

Interested in being part of a theatre department production? Auditions for the fall 2026 productions of Almost, Maine directed by Alex Draper, and Antigone directed by Michole Biancosino, are fast approaching!

Click here for more information. Open to Middlebury students only.

BIGFOOT BY Meghan Endres Brown
Alyssa and Holly Auburn are two sisters reuniting after years of silence. We unpack their history while the presence of Bigfoot himself looms ever closer. Hannah Alberti’s (‘26) senior 700 work in acting, Alex Garcia’s (‘26) senior 700 work in lighting design, and Evan Berger’s (‘26.5) 500 work in scenic design.

Ticket sales for this show start 2 weeks before opening.
Tickets $5. go/bigfoot/ for tickets

Interested in being part of a theatre department production? Auditions for the fall 2026 productions of Almost, Maine directed by Alex Draper, and Antigone directed by Michole Biancosino, are fast approaching!

Click here for more information. Open to Middlebury students only.

The Maids by Jean Genet, translation by Martin Crimp

Two maids indulge in a delicious game of role-play as they plot the murder of their capricious mistress. As the stakes rise, their performance spirals into a ritual where adoration, hatred, sacrifice, and glory promise a grand spectacle of liberation. The Maids is a timely parable of the destructive desire to become those we idolize. 

The Maids by Jean Genet, translation by Martin Crimp

Two maids indulge in a delicious game of role-play as they plot the murder of their capricious mistress. As the stakes rise, their performance spirals into a ritual where adoration, hatred, sacrifice, and glory promise a grand spectacle of liberation. The Maids is a timely parable of the destructive desire to become those we idolize. 

The Maids by Jean Genet, translation by Martin Crimp

Two maids indulge in a delicious game of role-play as they plot the murder of their capricious mistress. As the stakes rise, their performance spirals into a ritual where adoration, hatred, sacrifice, and glory promise a grand spectacle of liberation. The Maids is a timely parable of the destructive desire to become those we idolize. 

The Maids by Jean Genet, translation by Martin Crimp

Two maids indulge in a delicious game of role-play as they plot the murder of their capricious mistress. As the stakes rise, their performance spirals into a ritual where adoration, hatred, sacrifice, and glory promise a grand spectacle of liberation. The Maids is a timely parable of the destructive desire to become those we idolize. 

Matt & Ben, a play written by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers, depicts its Hollywood golden boys – before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before Project Greenlight, before Oscar… before anyone actually gave a damn. When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys realize they’re being tested by a Higher Power. Witness Norah Santoni de Castro’s 700 work in directing and Molly Snow and Jordan Henry’s 700 works in acting in a play full of wit, delusions, and destiny.

Matt & Ben, a play written by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers, depicts its Hollywood golden boys – before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before Project Greenlight, before Oscar… before anyone actually gave a damn. When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys realize they’re being tested by a Higher Power. Witness Norah Santoni de Castro’s 700 work in directing and Molly Snow and Jordan Henry’s 700 works in acting in a play full of wit, delusions, and destiny.

Matt & Ben, a play written by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers, depicts its Hollywood golden boys – before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before Project Greenlight, before Oscar… before anyone actually gave a damn. When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys realize they’re being tested by a Higher Power. Witness Norah Santoni de Castro’s 700 work in directing and Molly Snow and Jordan Henry’s 700 works in acting in a play full of wit, delusions, and destiny.

Matt & Ben, a play written by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers, depicts its Hollywood golden boys – before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before Project Greenlight, before Oscar… before anyone actually gave a damn. When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys realize they’re being tested by a Higher Power. Witness Norah Santoni de Castro’s 700 work in directing and Molly Snow and Jordan Henry’s 700 works in acting in a play full of wit, delusions, and destiny.

Shannon Palmer will demonstrate how a kimono and its components are layered, tied, and worn for different occasions. Palmer has studied the intricacies of wearing kimono for many years and worked in a formal kimono rental shop during her time in Japan. Dressing model: Josie Coan ’29.

Announcing Auditions for

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder

Middlebury Theater Department’s second Mainstage Show of the Spring semester is seeking actors for the following roles:

Simon Stimson, Joe Stoddard, Constable Warren, and Mrs. Webb

We also seek ensemble members and encourage all students to come read. All genders and ethnicities welcome. It is not necessary to prepare a monologue. We will have sides at the auditions for you to read.

Meet the theatre majors and minors, the faculty and staff of the Theatre Department and learn what we have in store for this semester and beyond!

Psst! There will be pizza!!

This multidisciplinary exhibit explores the kimono in dialogue with Japanese literature, Western aesthetics, fashion, and fiber crafts. 

Free and open to the public. Located in the Johnson Memorial Building 78 Chateau Rd. Johnson Exhibition Gallery, 2nd floor. Open Monday through Thursday 1-7PM, Friday 9AM-4PM

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Mahaney Arts Center, Room 232

Presented as part of the international arts exchange and residency by ONE STEP AT A TIME LIKE THIS, Michole Biancosino, Associate Professor of Theatre, hosts a lunch time conversation with West End and Broadway producer, Richard Jordan. 

Australia’s award-winning company, one step at a time like this, comes to Middlebury for a special arts exchange. In this talk, they will discuss some of their various international projects and the processes they use to make their work that employs an “expanded notion of theatre.” Led by visiting artists Suzanne Kersten, Clair Korobacz, and Julian Rickert.

What do we mean when we talk about ecodramaturgy? How can we connect the ancient art of dramatic storytelling to our current climate moment?

Join Professor Dan Brayton and members of Australia’s one step at a time like this theatre company for this round table and talk about connections between the work of William Shakespeare and climate.

Sponsored by the Department of English and Department of Theatre, with support by Middlebury Performing Arts Council, Climate Action Program, and The Chocolate Milkshake Fund.

A rollicking adventure filled with deception and mystery, told by a traveling theatre troupe, of two artists fleeing the Spanish Inquisition while traversing the Atlantic and through the southern cone of Latin America in 1796 to deliver a holy relic to the revolutionaries for liberation! Directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.

Please join us for a talk-back with the director and cast of the show after the Friday performance.

Performances are December 4, 5, 6 at 7:30 pm.

A volatile young woman, a smooth-talking lawyer, a neurotic writer, and his elusive fiancée… What could go wrong? Andrew has grown close to his upstairs neighbor, Georgie, whose heels click on his ceiling when she returns from work every day. All seems well and good until Georgie confides a terrible secret about Andrew’s good friend, Edward. Tensions soar, passions spark, and hidden feelings unravel… And it only gets worse when Andrew’s soon-to-be wife, Lydia, confronts him about the truth of their relationship.

A volatile young woman, a smooth-talking lawyer, a neurotic writer, and his elusive fiancée… What could go wrong? Andrew has grown close to his upstairs neighbor, Georgie, whose heels click on his ceiling when she returns from work every day. All seems well and good until Georgie confides a terrible secret about Andrew’s good friend, Edward. Tensions soar, passions spark, and hidden feelings unravel… And it only gets worse when Andrew’s soon-to-be wife, Lydia, confronts him about the truth of their relationship.

A rollicking adventure filled with deception and mystery, told by a traveling theatre troupe, of two artists fleeing the Spanish Inquisition while traversing the Atlantic and through the southern cone of Latin America in 1796 to deliver a holy relic to the revolutionaries for liberation! Directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.

Please join us for a talk-back with the director and cast of the show after the Friday performance.

Performances are December 4, 5, 6 at 7:30 pm.

A volatile young woman, a smooth-talking lawyer, a neurotic writer, and his elusive fiancée… What could go wrong? Andrew has grown close to his upstairs neighbor, Georgie, whose heels click on his ceiling when she returns from work every day. All seems well and good until Georgie confides a terrible secret about Andrew’s good friend, Edward. Tensions soar, passions spark, and hidden feelings unravel… And it only gets worse when Andrew’s soon-to-be wife, Lydia, confronts him about the truth of their relationship.

A rollicking adventure filled with deception and mystery, told by a traveling theatre troupe, of two artists fleeing the Spanish Inquisition while traversing the Atlantic and through the southern cone of Latin America in 1796 to deliver a holy relic to the revolutionaries for liberation! Directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.

Please join us for a talk-back with the director and cast of the show after the Friday performance.

Performances are December 4, 5, 6 at 7:30 pm.

A volatile young woman, a smooth-talking lawyer, a neurotic writer, and his elusive fiancée… What could go wrong? Andrew has grown close to his upstairs neighbor, Georgie, whose heels click on his ceiling when she returns from work every day. All seems well and good until Georgie confides a terrible secret about Andrew’s good friend, Edward. Tensions soar, passions spark, and hidden feelings unravel… And it only gets worse when Andrew’s soon-to-be wife, Lydia, confronts him about the truth of their relationship.