Since the release of Optimization 2.0 and the subsequent departure of Isaac Eddy at the end of the last academic year, the future of the Polaris Performance Company seemed bleak. Nevermore, the company’s...
Why else would we all not want to give a rousing “Okay, queen”? For students who have seen Emoji Nightmare, one of Vermont’s leading drag queens, perform the previous school year, who would have...
Many of us know of Edgar Allan Poe, Victorian writer, author, and poet, and of the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. Academic scholars say that sometime after October 7, 1849, a Baltimore...
Danceland is a show that was held at the Dibden Center for the Arts, on the VTSU-Johnson campus, on December 1 and 2, and starting at 7p.m. The show was hosted by the Vermont State University Dance...
Coming November 9-12 to Dibden Center for the Arts: 30 Neo-Futurist Plays from Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 minutes).
“Having opened in 1988 and still playing today as the...
Polaris Production Company’s next production is in the works, and this one might be the queerest of them all. The piece chosen was “Twelfth Night,” a contemporary musical adaptation written and composed...
On Nov. 4, I caught the opening night of “Unburn Me,” presented by NVU-Johnson’s new theater company “Polaris” and directed by Laura Roald. Though I was a theater kid in high school, I am a little...
Upon entering the mainstage of Dibden, you can see a single light bulb on a long stalk as it sits patiently in the middle of the stage. The unshielded source casts a brilliant luminescence on the room...
This upcoming winter, 40 students from various colleges, including Wellesley, Skidmore, Hamilton and Northern Vermont University, will gather for a semester to produce a feature film titled “Lost Nation.”
Jay...
“The Monument,” written and performed by Northern Vermont University-Johnson students, brings small town life in the COVID age to the small screen.
The homegrown project, done in collaboration with...
After watching “Good Kids” put on by Dibden last weekend, all I can say is, “Okay, boomer.”
I should preface this and give my congratulations to the cast, who ran well with a poorly written...
Not often in my life do I have experiences that I would call enlightening or rapturous. In the Stearns Performance Space a few Thursdays ago, I had one such experience. The catalyst was a drag show hosted...
Every semester is jam-packed with interesting and thought-provoking events, and this semester is no exception – however, there are a few changes in the works that will continue to improve the creative...
“Brontë,” directed by Laura Roald, made its debut at Dibden Center for the Arts Nov. 7 -10.
Roald has directed a number of plays including “Macbeth” and “Nine” at NVU-Johnson.
“Brontë”...
On Oct. 1, the Dibden Center for the Arts welcomed Open Ring Circus to perform “Coated: 1944 Circus Fire Project,” an interactive acrobatic and dance production. From the performance’s playbill:...
Tim Mikovitz, technical director at Dibden Center for the Arts, is excited about the space’s future, in large part due to a new partnership with Catamount Arts.
“I think Dibden is or should be the...
April 25-28, NVU Johnson’s theatre department put on the comic opera "Pirates of Penzance," directed by Erik Kroncke, a vocal teacher here at NVU-Johnson. I went to the first performance on Thursday,...
One of Shakespeare’s best known plays took the stage at Dibden Center for the Arts Feb. 14-17... “Macbeth” was directed by Laura Roald, who previously directed “Nine” also at Dibden.
This “Macbeth”...
A hush falls over the crowd as four actors march onto the stage, silently taking a seat in dilapidated furniture. The dappled lighting casts star-like shapes across the actors’ faces, the ceiling, and...
"Defying Gravity" defied my expectations.
"Defying Gravity" was NVU- Johnson student Jessica DeRosa’s senior thesis project for her BA in theater and drama. DeRosa directed the show and gave a brief...
Kavi Ade and Vision are not only mending masculinity, but also spreading mass amounts of inspiration and healing energy one poetry performance at a time.
Both of them are nationally recognized poets...
On March 27, JSC welcomed Lida Winfield to Dibden to put on her dance performance, “In Search Of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic.”
She was born with dyslexia and had trouble coping with everyday life,...
The theater is dark and quiet until white lights suddenly sweep across the stage, accompanied by the sound of a car’s engine. It quiets, white lights shift to red, and the sound of a blinker is heard....
In the dark, winding halls of the Dibden Center of Performing Arts, Emily Pike, special effects makeup specialist, frantically looks for the gelatin-based prosthetic molding compound she uses to make life-like...
Walking into the Dibden auditorium, it seems as if no one is there. All of the seats are empty and the heavy blue curtains are drawn across the stage. Tentatively, I step onto the stage and am ushered...
The works of William Shakespeare are among the most timeless stories in history. They have been reworked and reimagined time and time again, and now “Much Ado About Nothing” has come to the Dibden...
For their final play of the year, the cast and crew of Dibden brought to life the 1950 musical “Guys and Dolls.”
The play’s main story follows a cast of characters living in New York City during...
This semester’s Johnson State College dance club performance, a campus event always highly anticipated and well-attended by the JSC community, was well-rounded and found a good balance throughout dance...
The Johnson community got a glimpse into the complicated and controversial world of courtroom drama when the classic “12 Angry Men” was performed on the Dibden stage.
“12 Angry Men” was written...
Johnson State College’s Dibden stage became Rydell High in the school’s portrayal of “Grease” April 23-25.
Director Patrick Sawyer-Houle sought to bring the musical back to its raunchy and quirky...
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