(Dorset, VT– Feb 9, 2024) Dorset Theatre Festival, ahead of announcing its 2024 season of professional summer theater, has announced its 2023 world premiere production of Still by Lia Romeo will make its New York City Off-Broadway premiere this spring in a production by Colt Coeur. Previews are set to begin April 13,…
(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…
by Jana Lillie The world premiere of Still at the Dorset Theatre Festival is stunning and needs to be seen. I do so enjoy seeing new plays. There is no lingering memory of how so and so did it, or why that set designer made those choices. New plays give…
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…
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). …
by Emily Edelman Dorset Theatre Festival’s final live offering in its 2021 season is “Queen of the Night” by travis tate, in which a father (Danny Johnson) and son (Leland Fowler) explore family relationships, queerness and masculinity while on a camping trip in southeast Texas. Dorset’s specially built outdoor stage…
