Nov. 2-20—VERMONT—Bald Mountain Theater presents a 13-town Vermont tour of its wildly original, all-ages adaptation of the classic story “Puss in Boots: or How to get Ahead in the World.” The story is touring Nov. 2-20. See schedule below. What does it take to get ahead in the world? When a third son inherits nothing…

Saturday, Oct. 22 at 6:30 p.m.—RANDOLPH—A community music and dance party will be held on Oct. 22 from 6:30-10:30 p.m. at the Chandler Center for the Arts. This intergenerational social is the second of the “Live and Upstairs!” series of community engagement arts events to be hosted in the Upper Gallery. Dance callers Robin Russell…

Oct. 21-23, 27-31—WOODSTOCK—Pentangle Arts invites all to leave your troubles outside and come to its production of “Cabaret” based on the 1998 production directed by Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall. The show opens Friday, Oct. 21, and closes with a special Halloween performance on Oct. 31. This legendary musical takes the audience to Berlin in the 1930s, an…

Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.—CASTLETON—Castleton University presents the world premiere of Michael Milligan’s latest one-man play, “Side Effects,” onTuesday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Casella Theater. As his physician father slips towards senility, Dr. William MacQueen strives to live up to the standards he has inherited. The frustration of forms, complicated coding…

Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m.—LUDLOW—FOLA (Friends of Ludlow Auditorium) will sponsor a candidate’s forum on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium. Candidates for the three Windsor County Senate seats, along with the two candidates for the Rutland-Windsor-2 (RW-2) House seat in Montpelier have been invited to participate in…

The Wheels for Warmth team is asking Vermonters to help their neighbors in need and donate old tires no longer in use to the 12th annual Wheels for Warmth tire recycle and resale event. Established in 2005, Wheels for Warmth’s three goals are to raise funds for emergency fuel assistance; create a resource of DMV-inspected…

Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m.—RUTLAND—The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice (RAVNAH) is providing training for those interested in becoming hospice volunteers beginning on Thursday, Oct. 20 from 4:30-7:30 p.m.. The four-week session runs every Thursday and Saturday through Nov. 12. The training course will be held at RAVNAH, 7 Albert Cree Drive…

Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 22-23—POULTNEY, MIDDLEBURY—The Champlain Philharmonic will return to Ackley Hall at Green Mountain College in Poultney on Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m, and the Mahaney Center for the Arts at Middlebury College on Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. to present a rousing set of works by some of the great Russian composers: Tchaikovsky,…

Saturday, Oct. 22 at 10 a.m.—RUTLAND—Play prepares a young brain for life, love, and even schoolwork. To celebrate the benefits of play, Rutland Building Bright Futures (BBF) is holding its fourth annual Free Family Fun Time community event ”Just Play? No Way!” on Saturday, Oct. 22 from 10 a.m.-12 noon at Rutland Regional Medical Center in…

Sunday, Oct. 23 at 2:30 p.m.—POULTNEY—Poultney Area St. David’s Society and the Welsh-American Genealogical Society will give a presentation Sunday, Oct. 23 at 2:30 p.m. “A Story of a Clock” by Mark Roberts is about his family’s grandfather clock, which was made in northwest Wales 202 years ago. The clock traveled to the Vermont/New York…

Thursday, Oct. 27 at 6 p.m.—RUTLAND—Challenges in life can be gateways to learn, grow and gain a new perspective on life. Join Rutland Regional Medical Center’s class “Peace and Calm in Chaos: Your Journey – Discover Your Inspiring Story” on Thursday, Oct. 27 from 6-7:30 p.m. at RRMC in the CVPS/Leahy Community Health Education Center…

Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 22-23—WOODSTOCK—Glad Rags will hold its annual fall fundraising sale at the Masonic Lodge, 30 Pleasant Street in Woodstock on Saturday, Oct. 22, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 23, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. This is the non-profit’s 104th sale and marks the first time in its 50-plus-year history that the sale will…

Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m.—BRANDON—Bob Mackenzie’s Band offers a solid selection of blues classics, jump, swing, and rhythm and blues. This combo brings it home with tunes that will get audiences dancing, or simply enjoy the night reminisce back through decades of great music. They perform at Brandon Music Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m.…

Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m.—BRANDON—Love live music, a good cause, and swing dancing? On Friday, Oct. 21 from 7:30-10 p.m., the Compass Music and Arts Foundation (CMAF) is partnering with the 18-piece big band EnerJazz to create Swing for the Arts, a benefit to fund programs for the community and support the many projects…

Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m.—POULTNEY— Join Elizabeth Calabrese, licensed architect and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accredited professional, for her presentation “Biophilic Design: Design for Human Flourishing” at the Green Mountain College East Room (Withey Hall) Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m. Our “natural habitat” has largely become the indoor built environment…