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By ALEX HANSON and DAVID CORRIVEAU

Of the nearly 200 people who bought tickets for comedian Rusty Dewees’ performance as “The Logger” at the Newport Opera House on Saturday night, only eight canceled.Whether they stayed home because of the spread of the novel coronavirus or not, one...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Until further notice, Upper Valley residents planning to attend live music and theater should call (or click) ahead, as well as wash their hands and cough and sneeze into their elbows, in this time of coronavirus.While most performers and venues...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Around a dinner table or a campfire, Vietnam veteran and former marathoner John Morton and retired outdoor educator Jed Williamson will spin yarns for as long as you let them.At “Hindsight is 20/20,” a storytelling festival starting Friday at the...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

At some point, count on Crys Matthews to sing the title track from her 2017 folk album Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers during her concert in Norwich on Friday night. White-robed devil’s in plain sightAngry protests in the streets night after...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

A refrain runs through Citrus, the spoken word- and dance-laced play that opens at Northern Stage next week.Better yet, call it a thread of language that playwright Celeste Jennings sews through the stories and verse and rapid-fire commiserations in...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Wherever we sit on the spectrum of romantic experience, few among us welcome outright drama around Valentine’s Day — at least in our own lives.Better to watch other people act it out on a stage. It so happens that several sets of our Upper Valley...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Theresa Kloos expects to stick to the script of Every Brilliant Thing during Shaker Bridge Theatre’s production of the one-person play.Well, up to a point: The rest is up to whoever comes to Whitney Hall in Enfield between Thursday night and Feb. 23....

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Willy Porter started collecting paintings by fellow singer-guitarist Tom Pirozzoli not long after the two met at the Club Passim coffeehouse in Cambridge, Mass., in the early 1990s.Then about 10 years ago, Porter noticed his musical mentor’s...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Theater people call King Lear the Mount Everest of Shakespearean characters.Now Jamie Horton is starting to understand why — and how high and how breathtaking the climb: After six months of growing the beard and the shoulder-length hair, and of...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

One will dress for outer space, the other for the Wild West, while spinning hula hoops at Friday night’s “Aliens vs. Cowboys” dance at The Engine Room, in White River Junction.Beyond costuming, Nikki Royce and Julie Monroe won’t know exactly how...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Go ahead, laugh, if the spirit moves you, during DeLanna Studi’s two performances of And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears at the Hopkins Center this weekend.The Oklahoma-born actress and playwright swears that the one-woman...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

At the end of the inaugural String Summit at the Chandler Center for the Arts last Jan. 3, banjo master Ben Krakauer invited a dozen Central Vermont musicians to jam with the players of bluegrass, old-timey and other acoustic music who’d joined him...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Starting in 2015, The Conniption Fits have created themes for their New Year’s Eve parties. That first year, it was a 1980s prom, which was a fit, so to speak, for the band’s choice of music, which leans toward the era of big hair, taffeta gowns and...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Prepare for a couple of new wrinkles in the fabric of the Christmas Revels this weekend.For openers, Revels North is staging its annual yuletide pageant at Lebanon Opera House, after 43 years at Dartmouth College’s Spaulding Auditorium.And while these...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Until recently, Grace Crummer’s singing voice rose and fell mostly under the radar.That’s starting to change, as word — and video — gets around about the 27-year-old New London resident who alternately croons and belts standards for Upper Valley jazz...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Come spring, Da-Shih Hu will play his flute in the pit orchestra for Hanover High School’s 2020 production of Shrek the Musical.And the Hanover resident would perform for free, if school music coordinator and choral director Jennifer Chambers really...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Nick Charyk swears that he and his fellow Western Terrestrials didn’t time the release of their Nashville-recorded debut album to coincide with public TV’s airing of the Ken Burns documentary series Country Music.Better to call the mid-September...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Between the songs and the dances, a sobering lesson in 20th-century history runs through Rodgers and Hammerstein’s epic musical The Sound of Music.So before her cast of von Trapp children started rehearsing Edelweiss, Do-Re-Mi, Climb Every Mountain...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

One says goodbye and three say hello (again) on stages around the Upper Valley this weekend.And theatrical veterans Jonathan Verge, Jamie Horton, Faith Catlin and Perry Allison all will share passion plays.While Verge is bidding a bittersweet farewell...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

The surviving members of Peter, Paul and Mary knew that they could never replace the voice of their longtime partner in folk singing after Mary Travers died in 2009.Instead, Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey are keeping Travers’ spirit alive in part...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

While aspiring Thors and warrior princesses sally forth in pursuit of Halloween plunder on Thursday night, Lynn Noel is preparing to portray a Viking heroine without a sword, a hammer, a shield or a grudge.Say hello to Gudrid the Wanderer, the first...