Announcing our 2024 season!
In 2024 we bring you a season unlike any other. Plays teeming with music and love. Love of all sorts, friendship, passion, romance as well as love of our natural world and our home. Our mission is to fill your hearts and boost your spirits while bringing you the world class, thought-provoking theater that is our signature.
O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, by Patrick Ball & Peter Glazer
March 15 - 17 at Town Hall Theater
MACo teams up with Bald Mountain Theater to present O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, a one-man musical theater piece that tells the story of beloved 18th Century Irish Harpist and bard, Turlough O’Carolan. The play tells the Harper’s story through the eyes of fellow poet Charles MacCabe, played by actor Ethan Bowen, Carolan’s lifelong friend and traveling companion. His compelling story of deep friendship in a turbulent time in Irish history is interspersed with O’Carolan’s beautiful harp tunes reconfigured for the guitar and played by local author and musician Stephen Kiernan. Bowen and Kiernan first performed this piece at Vermont Stage in 2003. MACo's new production will play at Town Hall Theater on St. Patrick's Day weekend, March 15 - 17. Directed by Andrew Ritter.
Hundred Days, book by The Bengsons & Sarah Gancher, music & lyrics by The Bengsons.
April 4 - 7 at Town Hall Theater
Hundred Days is an uncensored, exhilarating and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap, and loving as if you only had 100 days to live. With magnetic chemistry and anthemic folk-punk music, creators Abigail and Shaun Bengson explore a fundamental question: how do we make the most of the time that we have? Abigail grew up in Middlebury as Abigail Nessen. She has gone on to have a successful career as a singer/songwriter in New York City and beyond. She and her husband are the creators of the internet sensation "The Keep Going Song" which consoled many a listener during the dark days of the Covid pandemic. A NYTimes Critic Pick, Hundred Days is a sensational piece of musical theater that must not be missed. Hundred Days stars Grace Experience, another home grown artist, and her partner Stephen Shore. With musical direction by Ronnie Romano. Directed by Margo Whitcomb.
The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov
October 18 - 20 & 25 - 27 at Town Hall Theater
In Chekhov's delightful tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they struggle to act decisively. Chekhov’s wonderfully vivid characters are full of humor and pathos as they attempt to find love, fulfillment and hope in the dying days of the Russian aristocracy. Translated by Jean-Claude van Itallie. Directed by Melissa Lourie.
O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, by Patrick Ball & Peter Glazer
March 15 - 17 at Town Hall Theater
MACo teams up with Bald Mountain Theater to present O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, a one-man musical theater piece that tells the story of beloved 18th Century Irish Harpist and bard, Turlough O’Carolan. The play tells the Harper’s story through the eyes of fellow poet Charles MacCabe, played by actor Ethan Bowen, Carolan’s lifelong friend and traveling companion. His compelling story of deep friendship in a turbulent time in Irish history is interspersed with O’Carolan’s beautiful harp tunes reconfigured for the guitar and played by local author and musician Stephen Kiernan. Bowen and Kiernan first performed this piece at Vermont Stage in 2003. MACo's new production will play at Town Hall Theater on St. Patrick's Day weekend, March 15 - 17. Directed by Andrew Ritter.
Hundred Days, book by The Bengsons & Sarah Gancher, music & lyrics by The Bengsons.
April 4 - 7 at Town Hall Theater
Hundred Days is an uncensored, exhilarating and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap, and loving as if you only had 100 days to live. With magnetic chemistry and anthemic folk-punk music, creators Abigail and Shaun Bengson explore a fundamental question: how do we make the most of the time that we have? Abigail grew up in Middlebury as Abigail Nessen. She has gone on to have a successful career as a singer/songwriter in New York City and beyond. She and her husband are the creators of the internet sensation "The Keep Going Song" which consoled many a listener during the dark days of the Covid pandemic. A NYTimes Critic Pick, Hundred Days is a sensational piece of musical theater that must not be missed. Hundred Days stars Grace Experience, another home grown artist, and her partner Stephen Shore. With musical direction by Ronnie Romano. Directed by Margo Whitcomb.
The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov
October 18 - 20 & 25 - 27 at Town Hall Theater
In Chekhov's delightful tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they struggle to act decisively. Chekhov’s wonderfully vivid characters are full of humor and pathos as they attempt to find love, fulfillment and hope in the dying days of the Russian aristocracy. Translated by Jean-Claude van Itallie. Directed by Melissa Lourie.