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By ALEX HANSON

Thanksgiving has always seemed to me the greatest of our holidays. The idea of a harvest festival, where families or tribes gather to celebrate their agricultural labors with a generous feast, might be outdated in the era of factory farming, but the...

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 ALEX HANSON

Having spent untold hours in selectboard and city council meeting rooms around the Upper Valley, I’ve often joked that it would be more fun to write about the meetings held in them as if they were theater, rather than just the mostly humdrum work of...

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

Oscar Wilde wrote in his play “A Woman of No Importance” that “after a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” Replace “dinner” with “dessert,” and you’ve nailed down the sentiment of Shaker Bridge Theatre’s newest showpiece,...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Last summer, as JAG Productions was preparing for its second year of Theater on the Hill at King Arthur Baking Co., Jarvis Antonio Green said he could envision a physical home for the company he started.“I’m not the only...

By ALEX HANSON

Before he founded Shaker Bridge Theatre, in 2007, Bill Coons had picked out the sailboat on which he planned to retire.Instead, he put his retirement money into starting a small theater company, from which he didn’t draw a paycheck for the first five...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

Renowned essayist John D’Agata’s new piece is set to move the world. Its 15 pages portray the life and death of a Las Vegas boy who died by suicide. All it needs is a glance at the names and dates.Pushing against the weight of the world, fact-checking...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

Set in a professor’s office at an elite Northeast university, The Niceties displays racial and generational conflicts through a brave student and her pressure-hardened history professor. This play is not for the faint of pacemaker. Directed by Grant...