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The Spielpalast Cabaret takes over Burlington's City Hall and fills it with political satire and scantily clad dancers.

The show runs through Saturday, May 17, 2008.

What makes Burlington so special?  Meet Phinneus Sonin, Junk Connoisseur, Cabaret MC, proud dad, radio DJ, naked bike rider, and juggler - now do you get it?... Read more

On the heels of her recent production of Threepenny Opera, the University of Vermont’s Rachel Perlmeter announced she’s leaving the state. Her husband Ernesto Capello has been “wooed away” by Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, she says, “so we’re off to the Twin Cities, where I have relationships with the Playwrights’ Center and the avant-garde site-specific troupe Skewed Visions [both of Minneapolis].” One of Perlmeter’s original plays is entitled Wanderlust, “and I’m afraid it’s a malady I embrace,” she confesses.... Read more

There’s probably no DNA marker of theatrical talent — or any other skill — but there’s some reason for the adage, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Case in point: Adam Blachly.... Read more

It’s been a long time since I believed in faeries. However, as I sat down in a packed theater for the St. Michael’s Drama Club production of Peter Pan, I was determined to let my faith be born again.

Held on the main stage of the McCarthy Arts Center, the student-produced play featured an impressive array of colorful costumes, swashbuckling scenes and, of course, flying.... Read more

Real crime is no laughing matter, especially a vicious homicide. Yet the audience for Mildred Taken Crazy — a short play based on a notorious late-19th-century murder in Montpelier — can expect some humor at its performance in Burlington next week. Bellows Falls-based actors/playwrights Steve Friedman and Denny Partridge like to say: “Our plays are always funny, no matter how serious.”... Read more

Two original sins haunt America’s history: Native American genocide and African slavery. Their consequences have undermined some of the highest ideals of our founders, especially the principle that “all men are created equal.” The legal system in particular has never treated people of color impartially in the United States. Even in 2008, African-Americans are grossly overrepresented in the prison population and underrepresented in positions of power.... Read more

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So you think Shakespeare is boring, eh? Vermont Stage Company's new production of King Lear will quickly dispel that notion as it explodes onto the FlynnSpace stage.

Fights, betrayal, backstabbing, bloodshed, love, sex, madness - King Lear is a complex family drama set in a nondescript time period.... Read more

Tragedy begins at home. Even sorrows enacted on a grand political scale — dynastic struggles, wars between countries — often stem from conflict within families. William Shakespeare distilled this pattern, writ large in England’s past, in his histories and tragedies. They reverberate with issues that still sting today: siblings who become rivals, spouses who betray one another, and parents and children who seesaw between love and hate.... Read more

When it debuted in Berlin in 1928, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) instantly turned old-fashioned opera into groundbreaking musical theater. It had a political edge, thanks to the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), and its music was infused with the sounds and sensibilities of 1920s German cabaret, courtesy of the great composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950).... Read more