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40 Poems for 40 Pounds

Featuring 40 members from the community in an evening of poetry, performance, book-signing, pop-up events — and free cannoli!  This book of poems by Trish Dougherty will come to life on stage through by director, Michole Biancosino (Assistant Professor of Theatre) at Town Hall Theater.

Town Hall Theater

Open to the Public
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New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Inner Landscapes

Sponsored by:
Arts Council, Dance, Music, and Theatre
Inner Landscapes is a performance practice developed by Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and Nives Sertic, a projection artist based in Croatia. Middlebury College’s New Directions Spring Arts Festival will present the second iteration of this work which began when Sertic and Jenkins met as artists-in-residence last year at Cite des International Arts in Paris, France. This intimate work submerges the body in worlds of color. Original sound is played live by Matthew Evan Taylor and costumes are by Mac Melrose.

Shows at 2:30pm and 6:30pm.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public
silhouette of person from behind

New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Inner Landscapes

Inner Landscapes is a performance practice developed by Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and Nives Sertic, a projection artist based in Croatia. Middlebury College’s New Directions Spring Arts Festival will present the second iteration of this work which began when Sertic and Jenkins met as artists-in-residence last year at Cite des International Arts in Paris, France. This intimate work submerges the body in worlds of color. Original sound is played live by Matthew Evan Taylor and costumes are by Mac Melrose.

Shows at 2:30pm and 6:30pm.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public
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New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Momentary Exchange

Co-created and directed by Michole Biancosino, Assistant Professor of Theatre, with Visiting Artist, Todd Anderson, digital poet and technologist

Leave your cellphone on for this unique theatre event. In this app-driven performance piece, you are invited to take a 50 minute journey - through memory, relationships, songs, and weather – as we take a road trip together. Audiences co-write the story in real time by using your phone and responding to prompts in real-time. It’s going to be a wild ride.

Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

Open to the Public
photos of artists, side by side

New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Momentary Exchange

Co-created and directed by Michole Biancosino, Assistant Professor of Theatre, with Visiting Artist, Todd Anderson, digital poet and technologist

Leave your cellphone on for this unique theatre event. In this app-driven performance piece, you are invited to take a 50 minute journey - through memory, relationships, songs, and weather – as we take a road trip together. Audiences co-write the story in real time by using your phone and responding to prompts in real-time. It’s going to be a wild ride.

Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

Open to the Public
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Hamlet

Sponsored by:
Theatre
The Middlebury Department of Theatre presents Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy of revenge in a production where 10 actors all share the title role. Shakespeare’s masterpiece takes on new meaning when every person onstage embodies the idea that “there is something of Hamlet in us all.” Featuring Beck Barsanti, Brianna Beach, Annabelle Iredale, Naja Irvin-Conyers, Victoria Keith, Ben Knudsen, Peyton Mader, Charlie Porto, Charlotte Roberts, and Zeph Santiago as Hamlet.

Please join us for a talk back with the company directly after the Friday performance.

Wright Theatre

$15/$10/$8/$5
Open to the Public
black and white tree with red birds

Hamlet

Sponsored by:
Theatre
The Middlebury Department of Theatre presents Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy of revenge in a production where 10 actors all share the title role. Shakespeare’s masterpiece takes on new meaning when every person onstage embodies the idea that “there is something of Hamlet in us all.” Featuring Beck Barsanti, Brianna Beach, Annabelle Iredale, Naja Irvin-Conyers, Victoria Keith, Ben Knudsen, Peyton Mader, Charlie Porto, Charlotte Roberts, and Zeph Santiago as Hamlet.

Please join us for a talk back with the company directly after the Friday performance.

Wright Theatre

$15/$10/$8/$5
Open to the Public
black and white tree with red birds

Hamlet

Sponsored by:
Theatre
The Middlebury Department of Theatre presents Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy of revenge in a production where 10 actors all share the title role. Shakespeare’s masterpiece takes on new meaning when every person onstage embodies the idea that “there is something of Hamlet in us all.” Featuring Beck Barsanti, Brianna Beach, Annabelle Iredale, Naja Irvin-Conyers, Victoria Keith, Ben Knudsen, Peyton Mader, Charlie Porto, Charlotte Roberts, and Zeph Santiago as Hamlet.

Please join us for a talk back with the company directly after the Friday performance.

Wright Theatre

$15/$10/$8/$5
Open to the Public

Off the Wall Performance in the Museum

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art and Theatre
Working in collaboration with Middlebury Theatre and Dance students, Visiting Assistant Professor Jonathan Vandenberg directs a performance installation in the Museum of Art’s largest gallery. Axis mundi (“axis of the world”) is the concept in many traditions of a liminal realm between lower and upper domains, such as between the terrestrial and the celestial. Historically, this concept has been investigated through diagram, painting, sculpture, and architecture. In this performance installation, a radical Axis “diagram” emerges.

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Open to the Public
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Somewhere: Post-Play Discussion

Sponsored by:
Arts Council and Theatre
Meet members of the “Somewhere” cast and crew, and special guests including playwright Marisela Treviño Orta and Dr. Theresa May, to talk about the show, its themes and questions.

Sponsored by the Theatre Department, the Climate Action Capacity Program, and the Middlebury Performing Arts Council.

Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

Open to the Public