Dr. Galit Atlas, the internationally bestselling author of Emotional Inheritance, joins Weybridge author and psychologist Devon Jersild for an evening built around her new book, Come Closer: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy.

Dr. Galit Atlas: Come Closer In conversation with Devon Jersild

Town Hall Theater

Under the direction of the energetic and talented Tim Guiles, the Maiden Vermont Chorus brings its “hearts on fire” music and close harmony singing back to the stage. This local a cappella chorus of 35 women has prepared an exciting concert program which includes a great arrangement of the Pentatonix SING! along with a range of music from the Beatles to popular songs from movies such as Barbie, Toy Story, and The Greatest Showman, The arc of the show this year is looking at how music can change the world - - - in our hearts one at a time, and collectively as we explore social issues of war and peace - - - and how to deal with changes in the world around us.

Music Can Change The World

Overflowing with gorgeous melody, Mozart’s witty romantic comedy follows two sailors who switch places to test their fiancées’ faithfulness, with hilarious results.

Così fan tutte

Saving Walden's World follows Jim Merkel, a former military engineer turned sustainability activist, as he raises his son Walden on an off-grid homestead in Maine. The film travels with him to Cuba, Kerala, and Slovenia, where he documents women-led communities that have built extraordinary qualities of life by prioritizing healthcare, literacy, and reproductive freedom. It doesn't just lay out the problem. It shows that the solutions already exist, and that people are already living them.

Saving Walden's World

Join Town Hall Theater and Middlebury College to kick off election season and take part in a nationwide civic action. Students from Michole Biancosino’s Contemporary Women and Non-Binary Playwrights class at Middlebury College will perform world premiere readings by some of the country’s leading women+ playwrights, including Sarah Ruhl, Lauren Gunderson, Sarah Mantell, Bridget Carpenter, and Kimber Lee.

Women+ on the Edge of Democracy

Middlebury Acting Company drags Tartuffe out of 17th-century Paris and drops him straight into the granite-countered, three-car-garage chaos of nouveau-riche New England — and he fits right in.

Tartuffe

Join Vermont Book Shop and Middlebury Baseball for an evening in conversation with journalist and Middlebury College graduate Devon O’Neil. His book The Way Out won both the Reading the West Book Award and the Colorado Book Award. It tells the true story of a backcountry ski outing outside Salida, Colorado, that became a thirty-hour ordeal when fifteen-year-old Cole Walters-Schaler and experienced outdoorsman Brett Beasley were caught in an unforgiving blizzard.

An Evening with Devon O’Neil

TANASI plays what they call “worldgrass”: Appalachian string band music opened up to melodies and rhythms from across the world. Billy Cardine's dobro and slide guitar anchor the sound, and Anya Hinkle and Mary Lucey's close harmonies carry it. It's bluegrass that doesn't stay in one place.

Tanasi

Jamie Wyeth is the third generation of a painting dynasty that includes his grandfather N.C. Wyeth and father Andrew Wyeth, and he's carved out his own path within it. His subjects range from John F. Kennedy and Andy Warhol to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rudolf Nureyev, and the animals on his farm and the islands of Maine, always seen through a distinctive, sometimes unsettling lens.

Jamie Wyeth & the Unflinching Eye

Middlebury College Musical Theatre (MCMT) invites you to step into the delightfully dark and wonderfully wacky world of The Addams Family! When Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, falls in love with a sweet, ordinary young man, she faces a terrifying challenge: introducing him and his family to her decidedly unordinary parents. As the two families come together for one unforgettable dinner, secrets are revealed, relationships are tested, and chaos ensues.

The Addams Family

Middlebury College Professor Amit Prakash and DJ Oli Berlic bring techno and hip-hop to the decks, while VJ TV95 fills the room with live visuals. Think DJ for your ears, VJ for your eyes: moving images, pulsing beats, and four hours to lose yourself on the dance floor.

After Hours at the Anderson

Join us in the intimate Anderson Studio for a night of independent cinema with a personal connection to its creators. Arrive early for a drink, then stay for a conversation with Writer-directors Morgan and Vincent, who plan to attend for a post-film Q&A.

Film Screening: Plucked

Macbeth

Drop in on Warren Miller’s 77th film, Days Off. Join host Katie Burrell as she pulls back the curtain on what the pros do on their days off. Go skijoring in Banff, join Craig McMorris and friends in Whistler, and explore Alaska’s spines with Sam Kuch and Craig Murray. Watch Jess Kimura push snowboarding forward and inspire the next generation in Hokkaido, Japan. Head to Chamonix for an intense high-alpine pivot with Christina “Lusti” Lustenberger. Then, hit Deer Valley with Ted Ligety, Kaylin Richardson, Pep Fujas, Chuck Mumford, and their broods, plus much more. Tickets at warrenmiller.com.

Warren Miller's Days Off

Zach Nugent’s Dead Set takes over the Rothrock Main Stage for a celebration of the songs, and the spirit, that have brought generations of fans together.

Zach Nugent’s Dead Set

Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the classic biblical story follows Samson, the hero of legendary strength, and Dalila, the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him.

Samson et Dalila

For the members of the Emerson String Quartet, fifty years of playing together is coming to a close. Four Rational People follows them through the final season of a career that includes nine Grammy Awards and thousands of concerts, weaving vivid memories of the quartet's history with quiet observations of life on the road in their last weeks together.

Four Rational People

Celebrate the season with Of a Winter’s Night, Tony Trischka’s holiday show. He brings his melodic inventiveness to an acoustic celebration of bluegrass and Americana, weaving beloved carols, spirited fiddle tunes, and unexpected gems into an evening of warmth and wonder.

Tony Trischka’s Holiday Show: Of a Winter’s Night

Set during the California Gold Rush, Minnie, the gun-slinging tavern owner with a heart of gold, finds love in the arms of a dashing outlaw.

La Fanciulla del West

Pierre-Auguste Renoir helped found the Impressionist movement and never stopped evolving as an artist. With access to the National Gallery's Renoir and Love exhibition, Exhibition on Screen brings his work to the big screen: sunlit Parisian streets, intimate portraits, and a painter's lifelong pursuit of joy.

Renoir & Love

This momentous retrospective is the largest ever devoted exclusively to the “master of light”, with 28 of Johannes Vermeer's 35 known works from countries all over the world. Never have so many Vermeer masterpieces been brought together in one place.

Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

One of the 21st century’s most powerful new works, this opera draws inspiration from the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy.

Silent Night

Janet Fish spent more than six decades transforming ordinary objects — glasses, fruit, flowers, fabric, reflective surfaces — into dazzling studies of color, movement, and light. She's known for her luminous still lifes and her ability to paint transparency and reflection like almost no one else.

Janet Fish: Catching the Light

A masterpiece of the French repertoire, Massenet’s passionate drama follows the young Manon on her journey from Parisian glamour to tragic downfall.

Manon

Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy follows a triumphant war hero driven to destruction by jealousy and his enemies’ hatred.

Otello

Wagner’s epic final opera, set in a sacred realm of ritual and mystery, unfolds as a meditation on healing and redemption with a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail.

Town Hall Theater

Oct 28, 2026

Saving Walden's World

Nov 1, 2026

Women+ on the Edge of Democracy

5 - 15 Nov, 2026

Tartuffe

Nov 6, 2026

An Evening with Devon O’Neil

Nov 13, 2026

Tanasi

Oct 26, 2026

Dr. Galit Atlas: Come Closer In conversation with Devon Jersild

24 - 25 Oct, 2026

Music Can Change The World

Town Hall Theater