BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont Theatre Company recently presented Jason Robert Brown's musical, The Last 5 Years. Played in the round at the Dummerston Grange, stage and music director Ryan Buck brought Brown's story of love, ambition, and heartbreak to startling emotional highs and lows.
Thanks to the actors, crew, musicians, and sponsors.
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Sarah Freeman has been appointed director of exhibitions of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). In her new role, Freeman will oversee the artistic and curatorial facets of the museum's contemporary art exhibitions. She will also continue to manage the production of those exhibitions, which she has done as BMAC's exhibitions manager since 2015. Freeman's appointment coincides with the impending retirement of longtime BMAC Chief Curator Mara Williams. “Sarah will bring the perfect combination of expertise, experience, empathy, curiosity,
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