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By MARION UMPLEBY

So often, fictional tales about artificial intelligence take a dark approach, casting the technology as an inevitable threat to human existence. Will Smith fending off an onslaught of cold-blooded automatons in “I, Robot” (2004) comes to mind, as does...

By MARION UMPLEBY

LEBANON — As of November, AVA Gallery and Art Center is seeking a new executive director following the retirement of Shari Boraz, who served in the position since 2021.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — Over the past two years, a swath of new businesses have set up shop in West Lebanon, filling vacant storefronts that peppered the busy 1-mile strip of Route 12A as the pandemic faded. Among them are retail franchises such as J.Crew...

By MARION UMPLEBY

Ten years ago, Upper Valley residents had no shortage of opportunities to see live music and theater. Between Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center and performance spaces such as Northern Stage and Lebanon Opera House, among many others, the offerings were...

By MARION UMPLEBY

There’s something uncanny about performance spaces just before the first visitors arrive. A room that will soon be filled with bodies and sound is eerily quiet. The unused props are the only hint of what is to come. This is how it felt at 7:45 on a...

By MARION UMPLEBY

As art forms go, opera, with its opulent venues and complicated storylines, can often risk intimidating and alienating all but its most avid fans.Since Evans Haile became the general director of Opera North 10 years ago, the company has been expanding...

By MARION UMPLEBY

At first glance, a setting as idyllic as the lush fields of Fable Farm, in Barnard, seems like the last place to stage a play as harrowing as “Macbeth.”But it’s this very setting that inspired director Killian White to pitch the tragedy for BarnArts’...

By MARION UMPLEBY

Between college dorm living and the house shares that are often part and parcel of a person’s 20s, tales of unsuitable roommates abound in most friend groups.Shaker Bridge Theatre’s production of “Ripcord,” up through May 26 in the Briggs Opera House,...

By MARION UMPLEBY

The first time Vicki Ferentinos pictured herself telling jokes on stage, she didn’t get too far.“I remember saying to a boyfriend when I was 17, ‘I want to be a stand-up.’ And he said, ‘I’m funnier than you.’ Then I didn’t think about it...

By MARION UMPLEBY

In Paulo Coehlo’s novel “The Alchemist,” the protagonist Santiago embarks on an arduous quest to find buried treasure that appeared to him in a dream only to discover that the bounty lay where his journey began.Comedian and native Vermonter Collen...