2023

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2023 Main Stage Season

Misery
June 23 - July 8
By William Goldman
Based on the novel by Stephen King
Directed by Jackson Gay

Still
July 21 - August 5
By Lia Romeo
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt | World Premiere

Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B
August 11 - 26
By Kate Hamill
Cheerfully Desecrating the Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar

The Thanksgiving Play
September 1 - 10
By Larissa Fasthorse
Directed by Raz Golden

2022

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2022 Main Stage Season

Wait Until Dark
JUNE 23 - JULY 9
By Frederick Knott
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed By Jackson Gay

Scarecrow
JULY 14 - 23
Written and performed by Heidi Armbruster
Directed by Dina Janis

Back Together Again
JULY 27 - AUG 7
Featuring Christina Acosta Robinson and Ken Robinson

Thirst
AUGUST 18 - SEPTEMBER 3
By Ronán Noone
Directed by Theresa Rebeck

2022 Pipeline Presentation

I Need That
By Theresa Rebeck
AUGUST 30 (Staged Reading)
Starring Danny DeVito, Lucy DeVito, and Ray Anthony Thomas

Dance Party Ball

SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Arkell Pavilion

2021

The Outdoor Stage at SVAC

Laughing Wild (July 9 - July 31, 2021)
by Christopher Durang
directed by Jade King Carroll

Queen of the Night (Aug 10 - Sept 3)
by travis tate
directed by Raz Golden

2021 Pipeline Presentation

Scarecrow (Pipeline Presentation)
by Heidi Armbruster
directed by Dina Janis

2020

Wingspan
By Chris Bohjalian
Directed by Lisa Rothe

GRACE
By Dorset’s Women Artist Writing Group

NOTORIOUS
By Dorset’s Women Artist Writing Group

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2019

Noël Coward’s Private Lives
Directed by Evan Yionoulis
June 20 - July 6 I Regional Revival

DIG
Written and Directed by Theresa Rebeck
July 11 - 27 I World Premiere

Mrs. Christie
By Heidi Armbruster
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
August 1 - 17 I World Premiere

Slow Food
By Wendy MacLeod
Directed by Jackson Gay
August 22 - 31 I Second Production

2019 Pipeline Series
Panelists by Sofia Alvarez
Three Girls Never Learnt The Way Home by Matthew Paul Olmos
A Stage of Twilight by Sarah T. Schwabb

2019 Summer Stars Gala
Honoring Tim Daly I Featuring Jamie Bernstein

2018

Cry It Out
By Molly Smith Metzler
Directed by Marc Masterson
June 21 - July 14 | Second Production

Skeleton Crew
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Jade King Carroll
July 19 - August 4

Pride and Prejudice
Adapted by Kate Hamill from the original novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
August 9 - August 25

Ann
By Holland Taylor
Directed by Kristen Van Ginhoven
August 29 - September 1 | Co-production with WAM Theatre

2018 Pipeline Series
Is Edward Snowden Single? by Kate Cortesi
A New Play by Melissa Ross
Invictus Mingus by Frank Harts
A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet

2017

Downstairs
By Theresa Rebeck
June 22 – July 8 | World Premiere

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
By Ken Ludwig
July 13 – 29 | Regional Premiere

The Legend of Georgia McBride
By Matthew Lopez
August 3 – 19 | Regional Premiere

American Buffalo
By David Mamet
August 24 – September 2 | Regional Revival

2017 New Play Reading Series
MONA MANSOUR
LAUREN YEE
PAOLA LÁZARO

2016

The Norman Conquests: Table Manners
By Alan Ayckbourn
June 16 – July 2

Dear Elizabeth
By Sarah Ruhl
July 8 – 23

The Way of the World
By Theresa Rebeck
July 28 – August 13 | World Premiere

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
By Lanie Robertson
August 18 – September 3

2015

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
By Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
June 13 – 20

Intimate Apparel
By Lynne Nottage
June 25 – July 4 | Regional Premiere

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily
By Katie Forgette
July 9 – 25

Outside Mullingar
By John Patrick Shanley
July 30 – August 15 | Regional Premiere

I Hate Hamlet
By Paul Rudnick
August 20 – September 5

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Laura Eason, adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
September 9 – 12

2014

Red
By John Logan
June 18 – July 6

Out of the City
By Leslie Ayvazian | World Premiere
July 10 – 19

All in the Timing
By David Ives
July 24 – August 9

The Mousetrap
By Agatha Christie
August 14 – 30

Travels with Mark Twain
By Ron Crawford
September 18 – 20

2013

The Scene
By Theresa Rebeck
June 19 – July 7

The Whipping Man
By Matthew Lopez
July 11 – 20

Barefoot in the Park
By Neil Simon
July 25 – August 10

Clybourne Park
By Bruce Norris
August 15 – 31 | Co-production with Barrington Stage Company

2012

Good People
By David Lindsay-Abaire
June 20 – July 7

Boeing Boeing
By Marc Camoletti
July 12 – 28

The Whore and Mr. Moore
By Michael Cristofer
August 2 – 11 | World Premiere

Deathtrap
By Ira Levin
August 16 – September 1

2011

Superior Donuts
By Tracy Letts
June 22 – July 3

Dial “M” for Murder
By Frederick Knott
July 7 – 23

Noises Off
By Michael Frayn
July 28 – August 13

Mauritius
By Theresa Rebeck
August 18 – 27

2010

The Pavilion
By Craig Wright
June 30 – July 11

Fallen Angels
By Noel Coward
July 14 – 25

Murder on the Nile
By Agatha Christie
July 28 – August 15

The Novelist
By Theresa Rebeck
August 18 – 29 | World Premiere