2026 SEASON

Jack and the Devil's 3 Golden Hairs

Book by Stephen Stearns
Music and Lyrics by Peter Amidon
Director: Dory Hamm
Musical Director: Kiera Carmichael
Ages 9-13
Rehearsals begin Monday January 5th
Everyone who enrolls receives a role
Rehearsals: Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:45 - 6:45pm
4 Performances: 2/20 7pm, 2/21 2pm & 7pm, 2/22 2pm

A musical melodrama written by NEYT founder Stephen Stearns and the beloved Brattleboro folk music icon Peter Amidon, Jack and the Devil's Three Golden Hairs is a mishmash of Brothers Grimm and classic vaudevillian stage antics! A conniving King attempts to thwart his daughter's prophesied marriage to Jack, a penniless peasant. But every measure he takes just makes the fated prediction seem more certain... until he comes up with a foolproof plan: Give Jack the impossible task of fetching three of the Devil's hairs from the depths of the underworld itself! Surely that could never be achieved... right?

Directed by Dory Hamm with Music Direction by Keira Carmichael. This is a novice-friendly musical. No auditions, and beginner singers welcome!

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Director: Eric Bass
Music Director: Magda Sharff
Assistant Director: Ben Stockman
Play by Bertolt Brecht; Music by Ralph Denzer
Ages 13-19
Auditions: January 7th at 4pm (add to your calendar)& January 10th at 1pm (add to your calendar)

4 Performances:  4/10 7pm, 4/11 2pm & 7pm, 4/12 2pm 

Rehearsals days & times:  Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri, 3:45-6:45

German playwright Bertolt Brecht ranks among the most innovative, most effective, and most popular theater artists of the 20th Century. He was also one of the most entertaining, creating theater based on the idea that audiences will not pay attention to social issues if they are not entertained. To this end, he brought music and humor into his plays about injustice, and often set his work in imaginary ancient times and places while talking about very contemporary issues. 

The Caucasian Chalk Circle takes place in ancient Georgia — that’s Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains, between Eastern Europe and Western Asia. The story is a love story between a simple kitchen maid and a soldier, and it is also the story of an unlikely and incorrigible judge. When a revolution takes place in the city, the Governor and his wife abandon their baby as they flee. The kitchen maid, Grusha, sees the abandoned child and, unable to leave it to die, takes it with her to find it a home. As she runs, she is pursued by the revolutionary guards, the Ironshirts, and little by little, Grusha and the child bond. By the time she is caught, she has become the child’s mother — but that bond will be challenged by the Governor’s wife, restored to power and seeking to have the child she abandoned returned to her. The case goes to court and lands in the hands of a Azdak, a judge whose ethics are feared by both sides in the case. The story is laced through with high drama, exciting music, and some very funny characters. It will be told by an ensemble of actors, many in masks.