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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 NICOLA SMITH

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — In a push to secure its future as a regional theater company, Northern Stage has announced that it will break ground in July on a new housing development at the end of Gates Street. The complex of 18 units, which will provide...

By ALEX HANSON

Like any art form, theater can carry a lot of ideological freight. Mercifully, sometimes it just entertains and amuses.And sometimes, it entertains so thoroughly that you forget everything but the present spectacle. That’s what Northern Stage’s...

By ALEX HANSON

Some partnerships seem destined from the start. A pair of elementary school friends who get married out of college and stay together forever, or Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, to consider just two scenarios.But most people in enduring relationships...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax disrupted an event at Northern Stage on Saturday, forcing families attending a drag story hour to evacuate the theater as a precautionary measure. The Hartford Police Department, with...

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

Ah, yes, “A Christmas Carol,” a quintessential wintertime tale that reminds us what the holidays are truly about: sending ghosts to guilt trip your mean relatives into coming to dinner.This season, Northern Stage debuts a fresh take on Charles...

By ALEX HANSON

The lights come up on a man alone in a small apartment. Dressed in a T-shirt and tracksuit pants, he’s young and on edge, checking the television and messing with his laptop and a balky router. Given the state of the world, he could be anywhere,...

By ALEX HANSON

Floating out there on the internet is a Broadway World interview with Kennedy Caughell.Conducted just before the national tour of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” began a four-day run in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the interview recounts how much...

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Before I attended Friday’s performance of “Sense and Sensibility,” the closing show of Northern Stage’s 25th anniversary season, I refreshed my memory of the story by watching Ang Lee’s faithful 1995 film adaptation, starring...

By ERIC SUTPHIN

It’s 2008 and a tough but caring parole officer named Evan (played by Greg Alvarez Reid) meets with two recent parolees. Chris (Christopher B. Portley) is a mild mannered young Black man who once aspired to study education in college. Jason (Robert...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The last time Jason Smoller, Northern Stage’s next managing director, and his wife lived in the Upper Valley 10 years ago, they lived off Colburn Park in Lebanon.This time they’ll live with their child in White River Junction,...

By DAN MACKIE

“The show must go on” is a tried-and-true slogan in show business, where all good things come to an end, and flops end even faster. For Dorothy Stanley, the shows have gone on and on. And there’s still more ahead. Stanley, now in her 60s and settled...

By David Corriveau

… I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return ... Robert Frost, — from Birches Growing up in North Conway, N.H., in...