10 things ‘not to miss’ this summer In Southern Vermont “Always … Patsy Cline”
“Slow Food”
Ocean’s Edge
Weston Playhouse Walker Farm, 705 Main St., Weston Aug. 1-24 802-824-5288, westonplayhouse.org
Dorset Theatre Festival 104 Cheney Road, Dorset Aug. 22-31 802-867-2223, orsettheatrefestival.org
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center 10 Vernon St., Brattleboro Through Sept. 23 802-257-0124, brattleboromuseum.org
When an unlikely encounter in a Texas honky-tonk lands Patsy Cline at her biggest fan’s kitchen table, the rising star finds a fast friend and a savvy business partner. Latenight conversations between Patsy and Louise, a Southern housewife, create a bond that lasts a lifetime. Listen in and hum along as Patsy and Louise belt their way through hits such as “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “Crazy” and “Back in Baby’s Arms.”
Limited to 10 performances, “Slow Food” reunites two stars of the long-running, Emmy Award-winning NBC comedy “Frasier.” Peri Gilpin, who played Roz Doyle, and Dan Butler, who portrayed Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe on the show, will star as Irene and Peter, a couple who just want to have a nice meal out on their big anniversary. But their highly neurotic waiter, Stephen, will not bring them their food, and everything goes horribly, ridiculously wrong.
For many, the ocean is a spiritual and emotional touchstone; it is also a place of fun and frolic. Three artists — Graham Nickson, David Kapp and Isca Greenfield-Sanders — take markedly different approaches in representing the wonder of being at the ocean’s edge.
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show Various sites, North Bennington Through Nov. 3 802-442-3328, nbossvt.org The North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, now in its 22nd year, brings together 40 international and emerging artists in an outdoor sculpture exhibit sited around North Bennington. Locations include 48-66 Main St. near the Vermont Arts Exchange, train station, post office, Welling Townhouse, Powers’ Market and 66 Main St. New to the show this year are sculptures designed and created by students of the Village School of North Bennington with support from Bennington College’s sculpture department.
Color Fields: 1960s Bennington Modernism Bennington Museum, 75 Main St., Bennington Through Dec. 30 802-447-1571, benningtonmuseum.org
Paul Feeley’s “Untitled (Green Eye),” 1962. Photo provided by the Bennington Museum
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During the 1960s, Bennington College served as a rural epicenter for a group of artists who were pushing the possibilities of abstraction in pared-down, color-based works that have come to be known collectively as Color Field. This exhibition looks at this crucial moment when artists connected to Bennington led the way in American art.
