Mad River Valley Community Calendar

Curious events occurring in a house: In a wine glass. In a handshake. In a regurgitated necklace or a nose bleed. Everybody is watching, looking for cracks in the surface to find what lies beneath. You can play dead and pretend, but if they look long enough, they’ll see you breathing.

In this 60-minute, one-woman immersive performance, Vermont playwright Denise Casey explores the games she’s played to fit in, leading to a larger collective moment, the summer of 2020. Part memoir, part meditation, part make-believe, all imagination and courage.

Phantom favorite, Keryn Nightingale’s new creativity memoir features childhood artifacts in miniature sets, delivered to the audience in 800+ projected photographs. A cracked fairytale with a whiff of Edward Gorey.

So many questions! Is there a boundary between romance and friendship? Where does your consciousness live in your body? When is it time to come home? A dynamic collective of some of Phantom’s favorite dancers and choreographers perform their own work, accompanied by special guests. Two shows on July 29 – 6p & 8p

Nationally renowned cellist Miranda Henne is back with her colleagues Greg Liszt (banjo) and Mariechristine Lopez (violin) to perform classical and original music with a touch of bluegrass. Works include Claude Debussy and J.S. Bach.

Warren’s own piano man and raconteur, Robin Lehman, returns to the Barn with an eclectic musical journey featuring classical, blues and jazz. A perennial favorite!

A Phantom presentation in coordination with the Stowe Jewish Film Festival, this award winning musical film features an eclectic array of Jerusalemites and their determined attempt to create harmony out of a discordant city – even if it’s just for one night. Discussion after the screening!

Hailed by the New York Times as “virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone,” Peter and Will Anderson celebrate America’s greatest composer, Duke Ellington. With an entertaining narrative, the jazz trio reveals the enduring magic of hits including “It Don’t Mean a Thing If it Ain’t Got That Swing” and “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.” A night […]

Distant broadcasts, weaving bodies, curious light. Care, impermanence and infinitudes. Two new works of movement, object, and sound debut on the Phantom stage.

Distant broadcasts, weaving bodies, curious light. Care, impermanence and infinitudes. Two new works of movement, object, and sound debut on the Phantom stage.

An evening length dance performance that weaves together personal and mythic stories. Directed by Hanna Satterlee and performed by Jessie Owens, Mireya Guerra, Nicole Dagesse and Marisa Hall. A tour of the human emotional experience through abstract movement.

A storytelling event hosted by Bobby Stoddard It’s that morning in Venice when your childhood best friend suddenly floated by on a gondola, the summer you worked as a camp dishwasher and fell in love with the archery instructor, the five years you sweated buckets perfecting your swing and then never played again. It can […]