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Friday 16
Ready for your close-up? At Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater, top comic Tina Friml brings her sharp wit, indefatigable positivity and candid take on living with cerebral palsy to the stage for live tapings of two sold-out shows that will become her first one-hour comedy special. The Vermont expat (We knew her when!) delivers fearless, punchy humor to local fans — who might end up cackling on-screen.
Short ’n’ Sweet
Opens Thursday 15
Six plays. Six directors. Six casts. Intrigued? You should be! Vermont Repertory Theatre
mounts The Williston One Acts at its home base, where the spotlight shines bright on local talent in a smorgasbord of shorts. Expect diverse works by voices that run the theatrical gamut — from Harold Pinter to Ian McWethy — served up at accessible lengths.
Into the Mystic
Opens Friday 16
Break out the Ouija board! Rokeby Museum’s annual Halloween play returns with a spooky and timely new script titled “Spirits of Rokeby: The Impending Crisis.” The spine-tingling immersive experience — inspired by Ferrisburgh’s true spiritualist history — finds local actors in period-perfect garb summoning souls from the great beyond in a dramatization of real 19th-century séances.
Word Play
Saturday 17
Direct from Montréal, Cirque Kalabanté presents a feast of aerial feats at Spruce Peak Arts in Stowe with its visually stunning original production WOW (World of Words). Founded by African circus artist and former Cirque du Soleil member Yamoussa Bangoura, the company stuns with gravity-defying triumphs, backed by the pulsating beats of live Afro-jazz and kora music.
Eye on the Sky
Saturday 17
Moira Smiley and Rasa String Quartet join forces for “Roots to Sky,” an intimate, collaborative performance at the newly renovated Vergennes Opera House. Smiley’s resonant vocals and driving banjo combine with the Boston four-piece’s luminous instrumentation to explore human traditions through works both ancient and contemporary.
Wild Things
Sunday 18
One of the oldest known food preservation methods gets its moment at the Wild Culture Fermentation Festival at Barr Hill in Montpelier. The epicurean extravaganza centers on bubbles and brine, complete with behind-the-scenes tours, demos, live music, and tastings from 15 local food and beverage artisans, including fermented-fare faves Eden Ciders and Mt. Mansfield Creamery.
Ongoing
Well Heeled
The Adamant Cooperative Gallery’s foot-forward group exhibit “The Shoe Show” steps into unusual artistic territory. (If you’re thinking fetishized content, guess again!) Twenty creators explore the concept of footwear as art — from ballet slippers to stilettos — using various materials not typically found on the feet, such as paint, papier-mâché, fiber and wood.
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