(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…
(Dorset, VT– March 8, 2023) Dorset Theatre Festival is proud to announce the 46th Main Stage Summer Season beginning June 23, 2023, including William Goldman’s stage adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery (June 23 – July 8); the World Premiere of Still by Lia Romeo (July 21 – August 5); Kate…
Auditions for February production of “Almost, Maine” by John Cariani will be held on November 15 and 16 at 6:30 pm at the Dorset Playhouse, 104 Cheney Road in Dorset, VT. Director Marissa Valent will be casting up to five males and up to five females between the ages of…
(Dorset, VT – September 12, 2022) After 13 seasons as the artistic director of Dorset Theatre Festival in Dorset, Vermont, Dina Janis has resigned from her role this fall. The Festival’s Board of Trustees has announced current Producing Director Will Rucker as the company’s Interim Executive Producer. Since joining the…
by Barbara Waldinger “Set during Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, failure, denial and passion roil as two Irish servants and an American chauffeur pass the day in the kitchen of the Tyrone family’s residence in 1912.” (Publicity blurb: Dorset Theatre Festival’s production of Thirst by Ronán Noone). …
(Dorset, VT – August 17, 2022) Dorset Theatre Festival’s 45th Season of professional summer theatre will conclude with the World Premiere of Thirst, written by Irish-American playwright Ronán Noone, directed by the Festival’s resident playwright, Theresa Rebeck. Set during Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, failure, denial, and…
JULY 27 – AUGUST 7 (2 WEEKS ONLY) (Dorset, VT – July 22, 2022) Dorset Theatre Festival’s 45th Season of professional summer theatre will continue with Back Together Again: The Music of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, a new concert featuring Christina Acosta Robinson and Ken Robinson. Friends since their…
by Emily Edelman Heidi Armbruster’s semi-autobiographical one-woman show “Scarecrow” opens with two well-meaning friends offering awkward advice to the main character on how to make funeral arrangements for her father, who is in the hospital dying of cancer. Based on the author’s own experience of living with her father for…
