Northern Stage in White River Junction is celebrating its 15th year bringing professional-level theater to the Upper Valley. For their 100th production, the stage is returning to its very first holiday presentation, Annie.

Seventy-five years ago, a group of amateur thespians gathered in St. Johnsbury to start a community theater that is still going strong today.

A lonely farmhouse. Eccentric neighbors. A perfectly timed thunderstorm. These are all elements in the murder mystery, "I'll Be Back Before Midnight" by Canadian playwright Peter Colley, which is being produced at the St. Michael's Playhouse.

This month, Montpelier's Lost Nation Theater is re-staging a local production of To Kill a Mockingbird, which it originally put on three years ago.  

The age of thirteen can be an extraordinary time of change and growth. For people who want to revisit those years, a grassroots theater company is presenting a play produced and performed by teenagers. It's "Thirteen - The Musical!"

Restorative Justice is a relatively recent alternative to the conventional criminal justice system. This weekend and next, Brattleboro's New England Youth Theater celebrates this more inclusive approach with a program titled "The Quality of Mercy."

VPR's Susan Keese goes backstage with the Weston Playhouse production of The Oath.

An award-winning Canadian play about searching for love in Montreal is being produced south of the border. "Strawberries in January" offers Vermont theater-goers a new cultural perspective on romance.

In this program: Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate's vote on the bailout package, and unequal pay for women. The problem still persists - despite efforts to eliminate the pay gap, and legislation in Vermont that bars it. And, a local crusader on climate change gets training from Al Gore.

If you're in the mood for some tabloid hysteria, look no further than Stowe Theater Guild's production of "Batboy -- The Musical." Described as "a musical comedy with bite," Batboy is based on the "Weekly World News" story of a half-boy, half-bat found living in a West Virginia cave.

The Vermont Actor's Repertory Theatre brings its version of Twelve Angry Jurors to Rutland's Paramount Theater.