Song Sung Blues
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27
Two-time Canadian Folk Music Award winner Lynne Hanson lights up the stages at Sharon’s Seven Stars Arts Center and Plainfield Town Hall Opera House with thunderous guitar riffs and raw, gritty vocals. Balancing classic blues and roots music traditions, the Great White North’s “Queen of Americana” channels disarming authenticity in every number, from serene ballads to electrifying anthems.
The Book of Ruth
Thursday 24
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Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes’ one-woman bioplay All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg brings heart, humor and scrunchies to the Flynn Main Stage in Burlington. Michelle Azar (pictured) stars as the late trailblazing Supreme Court justice in an intimate recounting of her career, from high school valedictorian to defender of human rights on the bench.
Hot Topic
Thursday 24
National security correspondent and author J.J. Green champions truth in an era of omnipresent disinformation. At Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, the veteran journalist draws on decades of frontline reporting in a chat with Champlain College president Alex Hernandez about his battle-tested blueprint for spotting digital propaganda and algorithmic manipulation.
To Infinity and Beyond
Friday 25
At Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, N.H., exhibiting artist Barbara Takenaga delivers an illuminating lecture on the influences and ideation behind her cosmic abstract paintings. The out-of-this-world presentation chronicles five decades of Takenaga’s meticulously crafted space- and science-inspired works, followed by a reception with starry-eyed listeners in the museum’s atrium.
Once in a Lifetime
Friday 25
You won’t ask yourself “How did I get here?” at Paramount Theatre in Rutland, where Talking Heads band member Jerry Harrison hosts a screening of the visionary 1984 music doc Stop Making Sense. The newly remastered cinematic classic pairs with Harrison’s behind-the-scenes insights to chronicle the new wave outfit’s groundbreaking concert at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater.
Eastbound and Down
Friday 25
Bay Area author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason arrives at Shelburne Town Hall for a sold-out discussion of his luminous new novel, Country People, in conversation with Vermont Public’s Mikaela Lefrak. The New York Times bestseller centers on a Silicon Valley family’s attempt at a “quiet” new life in rural Vermont among eccentric neighbors and bizarre — but possibly true — local lore.
Human Interest
Opens Saturday 26
St. Johnsbury’s Catamount Arts Center is known for screening the kind of flicks you won’t find at the average multiplex. Case in point: National Theatre Live presents Martin Crimp’s razor-sharp take on Molière’s dark comedy The Misanthrope. Sandra Oh — sans scrubs — stars as a woman facing bitter backlash for speaking her mind in the workplace.
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