Est. 1977. By calling our company Lost Nation Theater, we feel we’re locating ourselves on an imaginative frontier– breaking boundaries, taking dramatic action, and courageously making things happen.

Valley Players is a viable, non-profit community theatre. Since 1979 the VP has produced about 4 shows a year and opened its doors to other performing artists and groups and is the home of KidsACT! presenting workshops for children grades 1 through 9.

To create theatre that makes our community a better place.

"We want you to understand that theater is not yet an established form, not the place of commerce you think it is, where you pay to get something. Theater is different. It is more like bread, more like a necessity. Theater is a form of religion. It preaches sermons and builds a self-sufficient ritual. Puppet theater is the theater of all means. Puppets and masks should be played in the street. They are louder than the traffic. They don’t teach problems, but they scream and dance and display life in its clearest terms. Puppet theater is of action rather than dialogue. The action is reduced to...

American Dreaming: 2023 New Play Festival Through an open submission process, Middlebury Acting Company is looking for three new plays for our second American Dreaming New Play Festival. This festival aims to amplify three unproduced, unpublished plays that address the question: What does the American Dream mean today? The selected plays will each receive two rehearsals, dramaturgical feedback, and a culminating public staged reading followed by a carefully moderated talkback with the audience. The goal of this festival is to assist the chosen playwrights in the development of their new...

Our Mission is to produce plays locally, provide skilled actors, directors and designers with a chance to work, and to engage, challenge and educate our audience. We are dedicated to creating quality work on an intimate scale. Our goal is to present theater that is both playful and provocative and to celebrate our common human experiences through the unique interaction of text, actor and audience. We are committed to keeping our production values minimal because we believe in the power and magic of the actor, who needs only a worthy text and a willing audience to create that special...

JAG Productions was formed with the mission to produce classic and contemporary African-American theatre; to serve as an incubator of new work that excites broad intellectual engagement; and thereby, to catalyze compassion, empathy, love, and community through shared understandings of the humankind through the lens of the African-American experience.

Est. 1997. Northern Stage is a regional non-profit Actors’ Equity LORT-D professional theater in White River Junction. In addition to its Main Stage Productions, it offers various education and artistic outreach programs, as well as a development program for writers called New Play Development.

It is Island Stage’s mission to provide a quality year-round theater and performing arts presence in the Lake Champlain Islands. We seek to engage and strengthen the whole community by offering shows annually in a variety of venues throughout the Islands. We also seek to connect the Lake Champlain Islands to the broader global community by providing diverse, entertaining, and intellectually stimulating productions that address the human condition. Our mission will be supplemented by providing acting classes for adults and children, reading groups and other opportunities for engagement and...

Providing quality and dynamic theater in Rutland, Vermont for all to enjoy.

Advice To The Players is a unique company of theater professionals, enthusiastic community members and energetic teens that has been performing Shakespeare and offering workshops in New Hampshire’s Lakes and Mountains Region since 1999. Our award-winning productions bring William Shakespeare’s richly passionate plays to life and introduce new generations to live theater and to Shakespeare’s brilliantly rendered portraits of humanity. Whether at our outdoor Summer performances nestled amidst the mountains, in a merry autumn comedy at the fair, at a raucous on-our-feet reading at a local pub,...

Est. 1935. The company builds on and enhances the unique assets of its Vermont village campus to produce a diverse, entertaining, and challenging season of live professional theatre and high impact events; enrich the theatergoing experience with education and outreach programs for all ages; and make significant contributions to the American theatre through training programs, play development, and retreats. See website for info on our New Works Program, New Musical Award, Artists Retreat, Workshops, and Full Productions.