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By MARION UMPLEBY

“Sugar, butter, flour.” A woman’s voice carries across a dimly-lit diner minutes before the room is jolted to life by the arrival of hungry customers.

By ALEX HANSON

How sad a thing must male friendship seem, held together as it so often is by professional sports. It’s a question worth considering as the Super Bowl bears down on us in all its feathered glory.

By NATHAN DOUGLAS GARDNER

Northern Stage’s 2024 winter musical, “Beauty and the Beast,” feels like a glass of warm milk before bed — comforting and nostalgic, yet hard to critique without a layer of sentimentality. For those who grew up in the ’90s or raised children during...

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 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...