Arts & Culture
Catherine’s Choice Awards
By Catherine Goodrich | January 23, 2025For me, the only redeemable quality of winter is awards season. From now until Daylight Savings, the cold days in my calendar are benchmarked with The Golden Globes, Grammys and Oscars. It’s pretentious, absolutely, but I love how these ceremonies celebrate talented artistry — as subjective as trying ...
Reel Critic: “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
By Virginia Frau | January 23, 2025With the release of “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” onto Netflix this month, audiences saw both the return of the beloved Lancastrian duo after 17 years as well as the series’ most iconic antagonist, the penguin Feathers McGraw — criminal genius and master of disguise.
“Mountainfilm” brings inspiration to Middlebury
By Ruby Salisbury | January 23, 2025Members of the Middlebury community gathered in Dana Auditorium on Jan. 14 to experience a collection of short films that transported them across the world and into the lives of a wide range of remarkable storytellers. This year the films featured stories from outdoor landscapes everywhere from Mexico, ...
Choral Chameleon unearths new discoveries in unique concert
By Lily Jensen | January 23, 2025The Choral Chameleon performed a stunning, cohesive musical experience: “CONTROL: A Musical Journey within the Generation Gap” in Robison Hall on Saturday, Jan 18.
Marco Motroni ’25 conjures up a magical evening at Wilson Hall
By Gregory Marcinik | January 23, 2025Middlebury can bring some unexpected, even magical, surprises.
In “Proof of Life,” variety is the spice
By Catherine Goodrich | January 16, 2025Christmas comes twice a year for the Middlebury arts and culture scene when Johnson opens its doors at the end of each semester for its biannual student showcase. In the midst of the stress of finals, student work, especially theses, offer a welcome dose of inspiration during an otherwise hectic time ...
Reel Critic: Nosferatu
By Norah Khan | January 16, 2025Vampires are having their moment, and you could say it's pretty fang-tastic.
Dreaming with Sean Dorsey Dance
By Norah Khan | December 5, 2024Sean Dorsey Dance graced the halls of the Mahaney Arts Center from Nov. 15 –16 to share their new project, titled “THE LOST ART OF DREAMING.” The performance was a beautiful mixture of spoken word, expressive dance and queer joy. The central theme, “DREAMING IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT,” was ...
King Lear endears new generation to timeless classic
By Christy Liang | December 5, 2024 From Nov. 14 – 16, the Middlebury community enjoyed a dazzling production of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, King Lear. Enthralling visual effects and costume design, original musical innovations, and a dynamic cast breathed contemporary life into this timeless classic, leaving ...
20 Years of “From a Basement on the Hill”
By Oscar De Swaan Arons | November 14, 2024In some ways, it’s hard not to treat “From a Basement on the Hill” as Elliott Smith’s suicide note. When Smith stabbed himself in the heart in his Los Angeles apartment on Oct. 21, 2003, his sixth studio album was largely completed, save some mixing and tracklist decisions. Smith’s death, ...
Horror and Humor in Harmony: Middlebury College Musical Theatre’s “Little Shop of Horrors”
By Wendy Wang | November 14, 2024A perfectly spooky end to the Halloween season, Middlebury College Musical Theatre’s fall production of “Little Shop of Horrors” ran at the Town Hall Theater (THT) for three consecutive nights, thrilling audiences with its blend of humor, emotion and terror.
Reel Critic: “Emilia Pérez”
By Gavin Richards | November 14, 2024What strikes one most upon viewing “Emilia Pérez”, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last May, is its resistance to description. The film, starring Karla Sofía Gascón in the titular role as a transgender woman looking to leave her life as a notorious cartel boss, uses conventions ...