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Saturday, Sep 26, 2026

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Perfectly pink: MCMT’s ‘Mean Girls’

A whirlwind of pink and a packed audience made for a performance that can only be described as “so fetch.”  From April 16-18, the Town Hall Theater showcased Middlebury College Musical Theater’s (MCMT) performance of “Mean Girls” the musical. Pink posters of cast members dotted the campus ...


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‘A Hall of Mirrors’: layers of performance in ‘The Maids’

In a mirror maze of performativity, reality blends into fantasy until the two become nearly indistinguishable. This is on full display in Jean Genet’s absurdist play, “The Maids,” which was produced by the Middlebury Theatre Department this past weekend. It depicts two sister maids engaging in ...


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Watching the wings grow: Proc knitter Marin Melchior

Marin Melchior wears the standard college dining services uniform, but beneath the regulation fabric, the markers of a creator remain: a streak of vibrant blue bleached into her hair, a pair of delicate earrings and a blue bow pinned neatly behind her work hat. As the dining servery supervisor at Middlebury ...


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‘The Last Waltz’ turns 50

There’s a moment in “The Last Waltz” that comes at about the 34 minute and 53 second mark, at the onset of the last chorus in Neil Young’s performance of “Helpless,” which a friend of mine once singled out, when we were arguing the film’s best scenes, as a jib door to transcendence. He ...


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Bread & Puppet brings ‘cheap art’ and a rallying cry for justice

Local Vermont Bread & Puppet theatre, hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (GSFS) Department’s annual Gensler Symposium and the Chellis House (Feminist Resource Center), brought their signature craft of humorous but heavy mixed-media puppet performance pieces to campus on Tuesday ...


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Water under the bridge: Visiting architect Aurelie Frolet

Aurelie Frolet is an architectural designer and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. This past week, from March 9-13, she visited Middlebury through the Cameron Visiting Architect Program. The program offers a short-term residency for architects and designers, ...


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You needed this: M Gallery hosts zine release party

The newly revived M Gallery has become a hub of alternative artistic and cultural events on Campus. Small, intimate and thoughtfully curated, the space invites art-centered dialogues and offers a refreshing respite from the often homogenous campus dynamic.