The Original Musical based on the lives of Vermont teens.

Outdoor Vermont Tour

Dates and Locations:

Wednesday, August 4 and Thursday, August 5, 7:30 pm
NVU Lyndon Rugby Field
1000 College Road
Lyndonville, VT
Rain date is Friday, August 6 and or inside rain venue is Fenton Chester Arena. You will be emailed the day of show by 4 p.m. with information on any changes. If you do not hear from us by 4 p.m. the show will go on as planned!

Saturday, August 7 and Sunday, August 8, 7:30 pm
Dresden Athletic Field
221 US Route 5
Norwich, VT
Rain date is Monday, August 9 or inside rain venue TBA. You will be emailed the day of show by 4 p.m. with information on any changes. If you do not hear from us by 4 p.m. the show will go on as planned!

Tuesday, August 10 and Wednesday, August 11, 7:30 pm
Landmark College
19 River Road S.
Putney, VT
Rain date is Thursday, August 12 and or inside rain venue is Landmark Gymnasium. You will be emailed the day of show by 4 p.m. with information on any changes. If you do not hear from us by 4 p.m. the show will go on as planned!

Friday, August 13 and Saturday, August 14, 7:30 pm
Shelburne Museum
6000 Shelburne Road
Shelburne, VT
Rain date will be inside rain venue at Shelburne Athletic Club. You will be emailed the day of show by 4 p.m. with information on any changes. If you do not hear from us by 4 p.m. the show will go on as planned!

Sunday, August 15, 7:30 pm
State House Lawn
115 State St.
Montpelier, VT
Rain date is Monday, August 16th on the Montpelier Green. You will be emailed the day of show by 4 p.m. with information on any changes. If you are not notified the show will go on as planned!

Ticket prices listed do not include any applicable fees or taxes.

No alcoholic beverages allowed at any venues.

Seating:

• General Admission
• We will have open seating on the ground and will also be providing folding chairs for folks in the back of the audience
• For most shows seating will be on a flat lawn area.
• For the Lyndon show seating is slightly sloped on a hill.
• Masks are not required, but feel free to wear them if you like.
• We encourage socially distanced seating on the ground.
• If you bring tall/camping chairs you will be seated nearer the back with folks sitting in KCP folding chairs.

Outdoor and what to bring!

All shows are scheduled to be outdoors under the stars!

Please bring the following:

• Blankets to sit on
• Low sling back lawn chairs (if you’d like)
• Sweaters/sweatshirts in case it gets chilly in the evening
• Bug spray
• DO NOT bring umbrellas, because this blocks audience behind you. If you want to bring a tarp to sit on or to flip over your head in case a quick sprinkle of rain drifts by, that is fine!

Rain date policy:

• For all outdoor shows we have rain dates and indoor venues standing by.
• You will be contacted by 4 p.m. the day of the show if the musical has been moved indoors or moved to a rain date. If you do not hear from us, the show will go on as planned.
• Indoor venues for rain dates are in large gyms or venues

The Listen Up Project is an ambitious original musical based on eight months of interviews, workshops, conversations and listening sessions with more than 800 teens across Vermont.​

From the vast and diverse stories gathered over this time, a script was written. Youth were engaged in the script- and song-writing process and the musical was created.

Contains Mature Themes

Spnosored by:
The Vermont Department of Health, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont, Burton, VSAC, The Alchemist Foundation, The Fountain Fund, and UVM Medical Center.

Thursday, September 9, 7:00 pm
Encore - Thursday, September 16, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $21 adult, $18 Catamount Arts member, $7 student

By Edmond Rostand, in a new version by Martin Crimp
Directed by Jamie Lloyd

James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas from the London’s West End.

Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of Cyrano - or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight?

Edmond Rostand’s masterwork is adapted by Martin Crimp and directed by Jamie Lloyd (Betrayal). This classic play will be brought to life with linguistic ingenuity to celebrate Cyrano’s powerful and resonant resistance against overwhelming odds.

★★★★★"McAvoy is spellbinding as Cyrano" - Metro

★★★★★"funny, thrilling and deeply moving." - WhatsOnStage

★★★★★"The most breathtakingly exciting show in London right now" - Evening Standard

Thursday, September 23, 7:00 pm
Encore - Thursday, September 30, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $21 adult, $18 Catamount Arts member, $7 student

Filmed live onstage from London’s West End, Arthur Miller’s dark and passionate play A View from the Bridge returns exclusively to cinema screens.

Ivo Van Hove (All About Eve, Network) directs Mark Strong (The Imitation Game; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Nicola Walker (The Split, Last Tango in Halifax) in this ‘magnetic, electrifying, astonishingly bold’ production (Evening Standard).

In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. Eddie’s jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret – one that drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal.

Thursday, October 21, 7:00 pm
Encore - Thursday, October 28, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $21 adult, $18 Catamount Arts member, $7 student

Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical was directed by Dominic Cooke and filmed live on stage at the National Theatre in 2017.

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.

Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and Olivier awards, Sondheim’s previous work includes A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George.

Thursday, November 4, 7:00 pm
Encore - November 11, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $21 adult, $18 Catamount Arts member, $7 student

★★★★★ ‘Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.’ (Daily Telegraph)

Captured live from London’s West End in 2018, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas.

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.

Jonathan Munby directs this ‘nuanced and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.

Thursday, November 18, 7:00 pm
Encore - December 2, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $21 adult, $18 Catamount Arts member, $7 student

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead the cast in this glorious revival of Harold Pinter’s comic classic.

One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.

Following a hit run on Broadway, No Man’s Land was captured from the West End in London in 2016.

Thursday, December 9, 7:00 pm
Encore - December 16, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $21 adult, $18 Catamount Arts member, $7 student

Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Carey Mulligan (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Great Gatsby) feature in the highly anticipated production of David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Audience), broadcast live from the West End by National Theatre Live.

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died.

As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.

Thursday, January 6, 7:00 pm
Encore - January 13, 7:00 pm

Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Ave.
St. Johnsbury, VT

Tickets: $21 adult, $18 Catamount Arts member, $7 student

Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears’ dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain, exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.

Obie-winning Elevator Repair Service Theater Company

A virtual presentation available 8am Sunday, February 13 through 5pm, Thursday, February 17th.
Plus live online interactive discussion with the show’s director and actors: 7pm, Thursday, February 17th

Location:
Online. A link for viewing the event will be provided to ticket buyers prior to the start date.

Tickets: Free. You need to "buy" the free ticket to receive the link to view the event.

In 1965 writer/activist James Baldwin and conservative arbiter William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to the UK’s Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.” The groundbreaking Obie-winning NYC theater troupe, Elevator Repair Service, re-creates Baldwin and Buckley's profoundly relevant confrontation in Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge.

The rapt audience at the Cambridge debate match voted Baldwin the winner by a vote of 544-164. Despite the victory, Baldwin felt stung by the encounter, calling Buckley “the intellectuals' James Bond.” Buckley, never one to admit defeat, called the night at Cambridge, "the most satisfying debate I ever had.”

Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge had its first work-in-progress showings in January of 2020 at Abrons Art Center’s Underground Theater. Our staging will be a virtual presentation recorded at Montclair State College - followed by a live interactive virtual conversation/Q & A with the show’s director, John Collins and actors, including April Matthis, Gavin Price, Greig Sargeant, Christopher Rashee Stevenson and Ben Williams.

Founded in 1991 by Artistic Director John Collins, Elevator Repair Service (ERS) creates original works with an ongoing ensemble. ERS’s theater pieces are built round a broad range of subject matter and literary forms; they combine elements of slapstick comedy, hi-tech and lo-tech design, both literary and found text, and the group’s own highly developed style of choreography.

ERS creates its performances through extended periods of collaboration. A typical development cycle includes 4-6 intensive work periods within a 2-year period, which conclude with work-in-progress showings. Time off between development is filled with touring and presentations of finished works. Following completion, the piece is presented in NYC for an extended run and is toured throughout the US and abroad.

ERS creations include their critically-acclaimed 2010 production of Gatz, adapted from the Great Gatsby. Lead NY Times theater critic, Ben Brantley called it “The most remarkable achievement in theater not only of this year but also of this decade.”

"The famous Baldwin-Buckley debate still matters today. In 1965, two American titans faced off on the subject of the country’s racial divides. Nearly 55 years later, the event has lost none of its relevance.”—The Atlantic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRzkHgMaPL4