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By ALEX HANSON

Floating out there on the internet is a Broadway World interview with Kennedy Caughell.Conducted just before the national tour of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” began a four-day run in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the interview recounts how much...

By ALEX HANSON

The musicians of What Doth Life, the Windsor-based recording consortium, continue to surprise.For well over a decade, a group of rockers who grew up together and still live in Windsor has been recording its own songs under multiple band names. If...

By ALEX HANSON

It’s been five years since Opera North first united opera with the circus arts. The productions, performed under a tent at Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, show no signs of letting up.“The fun part is to create a new concept every year,” Evans Haile,...

By ALEX HANSON

Around 40 years or so ago, Charlet Davenport was serving on the Vermont Arts Council.She was still a new resident, having moved to the state with her husband, Peter, in 1962. (She’s still a newcomer even now, she said.) At the time, AVA Gallery was...

By ALEX HANSON

The world of books is nearly as vast as humanity itself. It’s too big to fit into a three-day literary festival.But Bookstock, the annual festival opening Friday in Woodstock, is making an effort. While the organizers have always tried to include a...

By ALEX HANSON

At the small art gallery he’s opening in the Bridgewater Mill, Pete Landis wore a T-shirt bearing a stylized bird logo. It’s become kind of a personal brand.“I actually tagged that around New York for a while, until I got arrested,” Landis said. Then...

By ALEX HANSON

Like a wandering medieval troubadour, Revels North hasn’t really had a place to call home.In an effort to put the nonprofit arts organization on firmer footing, Revels North’s leadership is kicking off a campaign to raise $400,000 to buy a...

By ALEX HANSON

Dancer and choreographer Lucia Gagliardone grew up hearing stories about her paternal grandmother, Margaret, who died before Lucia was born. Like many 20th-century Margarets, she was known as Peggy, and to young Lucia she was “Angel Peg.” “Everyone...

By ALEX HANSON

The distance from Strafford to Hollywood is almost unthinkably vast, at least in social terms. People who go to the former often are fleeing everything the latter represents.That was true of Austen Earl’s parents.“Both of them were kind of hippies who...

By ALEX HANSON

During her upbringing in the Netherlands, Ria Blaas didn’t have Bertolt Brecht on her reading list.Come to think of it, who does? Even among theater aficionados, Brecht seldom rises to the top of the list when a season series is assembled.“He’s not...

By ALEX HANSON

Over the last several years, Barnard native Chloe Powell has made a niche out of bringing the world to her small town.She started the music series at Feast & Field, Barnard’s well-loved summer farmers market. She regularly brings in not only the cream...

By ALEX HANSON

The late Joan Didion published hundreds of thousands of words but is likely still best known for a single short sentence: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” The weight of that line varies depending on the circumstances of the storyteller....

By ALEX HANSON

Tommy Crawford has become known for his work as both an actor and a musician. That mix of theater and song has been with him pretty much from the start.Theater exposed him to music in the public schools of Montclair, N.J., where he grew up. He picked...

BY ERIC SUTPHIN

Steve LeBlanc began writing “The Silenced Lyre,” an original musical based on the classic Russian novel “Eugene Onegin,” over 20 years ago.His interest in Russian literature was sparked in high school after reading Dostoevsky’s 1880 novel “The...

By ALEX HANSON

James Graham first picked up a guitar at 14 and has played music ever since. Writing songs gives voice to his inner life.“I think (for) most people (who) come to the singer-songwriter thing is, it’s a refuge when you’re a kid,” Graham said in a recent...

By ALEX HANSON

Even before it was a Christian holiday, Easter was a time of rebirth. Perhaps in that spirit, though more likely because it’s warming up, there are a lot of vibrant arts events taking place around the Upper Valley over the next few days. Rather than...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Last summer, as JAG Productions was preparing for its second year of Theater on the Hill at King Arthur Baking Co., Jarvis Antonio Green said he could envision a physical home for the company he started.“I’m not the only...

By ALEX HANSON

Since its founding in 2004, WRIF (White River Indie Films) has held its annual festival all over the calendar.Sometimes that meant the festival happened when the weather was so nice that it could be hard to lure people out of their gardens and into a...

By ALEX HANSON

ROYALTON — Making music on her own has been part of Alison Turner’s life since middle school. For a shy, self-described “reticent” child, music was an outlet.“I think I got my first Mac computer when I was in seventh grade,” Turner, a Royalton native...

By ALEX HANSON

Travis Ramsey’s two kids were still small when they inspired him to start writing a string quartet about childhood back in 2017.Ramsey, who teaches music at Marion Cross School, also had just read a book about Wagnerian childhood that guided his...