A Message from Will Rucker, Executive Artistic Director of the Dorset Theatre Festival It has been an incredible 46th Dorset Theatre Festival season. We’ve seen great stories magnificently told and welcomed record-breaking audiences to the Dorset Playhouse all summer long. Just this past weekend we opened our hilarious season finale,…
(Dorset, VT– August 17, 2023) Dorset Theatre Festival will conclude its 46th Season with Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious and groundbreaking satire, The Thanksgiving Play, directed by Raz Golden, beginning performances at the Dorset Playhouse on September 1, 2023. The cast for The Thanksgiving Play will feature actors Kate Maccluggage, who recently co-starred in the feature film version of Judy Blume’s Are You There…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON – APT. 2B at the Dorset Theatre Festival is a rollicking and thoroughly entertaining farce currently onstage at the Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont. Award-winning playwright Kate Hamill provides a new twist on that classic sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his partner…
“Madam Secretary” Stars Tim Daly and Jayne Atkinson Join the Cast (Dorset, VT– June 27, 2023) Dorset Theatre Festival has announced full casting for the World Premiere of Still by Lia Romeo, which will begin performances at the Dorset Playhouse on July 21, 2023. Film, theater, and television star, Jayne Atkinson, best known for…
by Jana Lillie Friday night, I went to the Dorset Theatre Festival see the preview of Misery, the play by William Goldman, based on the book of the same name by Stephen King. Executive Director Will Rucker, informed us that this would be the first full run-through of the play.…
(Dorset, VT– JUNE 17, 2022) Dorset Theatre Festival will open the 46th Season of professional summer theatre at the Dorset Playhouse with William Goldman’s edge-of-your-seat adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Misery, which inspired the 1990 Oscar-winning film, directed by Jackson Gay. Performances are scheduled to begin Friday, June 23 at 7:30 PM. All performances take…
(Dorset, VT– May 19, 2023) Dorset Theatre Festival has announced full casting for Stephen King’s Misery, adapted for the stage by William Goldman, which will open the 46th Season (June 23 – July 8), and the director for the third show of the season, Kate Hamill’s Ms. Holmes and Ms.…
(Dorset, VT – May 2, 2023) Dorset Theatre Festival’s Board of Trustees has announced Will Rucker as the company’s Executive Artistic Director and Ryan Koss as Managing Creative Director in advance of the upcoming 46th summer season. The Festival also announced the launch of an endowment fund. Rucker and Koss…
