Vermont Stage

05/29/2026

Featured Friday!

The first book in The Bake Off of The Crucible curated collection from our partners at Phoenix Books: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé.

This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Cond brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary 'Nanny of the maroons, '" who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her.

Click the link below to order, and also get 10% off!

https://phoenixbooks.biz/list/bake

05/13/2026

Hey! This is your last chance to catch rhinoceritis!

Or will you resist?

Universal thank you to everyone who made it out for the first two weeks of Rhinoceros.

Due to demand, we have added a performance this evening.

Rhinoceros runs until this Sunday, May 17.

More info and tix: https://www.vermontstage.org/rhinoceros.html

📸 Lindsay Raymondjack Photography

05/12/2026

That time of year: The Vermont Young Playwrights Festival | May 12 & 13

This rad annual event brings together hundreds of students from fifteen schools across the state to share their work, take some amazingly fun workshops, and just be around like-minded theatre nerds!

​Check out the live stream to get a taste of this one-of-a-kind event: https://vimeo.com/event/4309934/embed/interaction

Thanks to our sponsors, National Life Group, and BTV Media Factory for donating their services and tech savviness, as well as the support from The George W. Mergens Foundation, The Goode Family Foundation, The Flat Rock Fund, and Physician’s Computer Company.

05/11/2026

“Tricky but satisfying staging is crucial. Director Cristina Alicea uses theatrical space, sound and light to help us imagine what can’t be staged and performance to convey how characters make sense of the senseless… The net effect is a destabilized world spinning so wildly that we have to laugh.”

Thank you to Seven Days for this deft review of Rhinoceros.

We have added a performance this Wednesday, May 13, but Rhinoceros runs this week only through May 17. Get your tickets now for one of the final performances.

More info and tix: https://www.vermontstage.org/rhinoceros.html

In Eugene Ionesco’s Tony-winning 1959 classic, realism is chucked overboard to place humanity’s existential questions in a comic context.

05/08/2026

Featured Friday!

The final book in the Rhinoceros curated collection from our partners at Phoenix Books: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World by Eugène Ionesco.

In Rhinoceros, as in his earlier plays, Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. It's a commentary on the absurdity of the human condition made tolerable only by self-delusion. It shows us the struggle of the individual to maintain integrity and identity alone in a world where all others have succumbed to the "beauty" of brute force, natural energy, and mindlessness.

Click the link below to order, and also get 10% off!
https://phoenixbooks.biz/list/rhinoceros

05/06/2026

Week two of Rhinoceros!

Thank you to everyone who made it out, and especially those who helped us sell out many of those nights!

Wry, clever, and jam-packed with laughs, join us for two more weeks of comedic mastery.

Rhinoceros runs until May 17.

More info and tix: https://www.vermontstage.org/rhinoceros.html

📸 Lindsay Raymondjack Photography

05/04/2026

Opening week of the Inaugural Ghostlight Residency—Iteration 5: Your Attention Please

What if our most ordinary moments… aren’t so ordinary?

Our resident artists, The LeAb Iteration Lab, invite you to a playful and thought-provoking theatrical experience that asks us to look again at what’s right in front of us.

The result is a performance that is immersive, imaginative, and unlike anything else in our season. Watch the short video below for an interview with the artists and to learn more about the show.

Inaugural Ghostlight Residency—Iteration 5: Your Attention Please runs May 5 & 6 only.

More info and tix: https://www.vermontstage.org/vt-ghostlight-residency-2026.html

05/01/2026

Featured Friday!

The fourth book in the Rhinoceros curated collection from our partners at Phoenix Books: George Orwell’s masterpiece, 1984.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...

A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Click the link below to order, and also get 10% off!

https://phoenixbooks.biz/list/rhinoceros

04/30/2026

Opening night of Rhinoceros!

Wit, romance, friendship, and courage in the fire, this absurdist masterpiece will linger long after the curtain falls.

Rhinoceros runs through May 17.

More info and tix: https://www.vermontstage.org/rhinoceros.html

04/27/2026

Rhinoceros is an enormously entertaining show. The play moves from one hilariously impossible situation to the next as a town grows more bewildered, more chaotic, and more determined to insist that rhinoceroses are not taking over and that everything is perfectly normal. It is inventive, physical, and full of genuinely funny moments.

Check out the official preview video for a glimpse of this bustling town and the unforgettable characters who inhabit it. And, don’t wait to get your tickets!

Rhinoceros runs April 30-May 17.

More info and tix: https://www.vermontstage.org/rhinoceros.html