The 2025 Season at LNT

Show Overview

despite the odds, it's time to thrive! - at LNT in 2025!!!


Keep the light burning!

 

• Season Tickets On-Sale Monday December 16th!
• Individual Tickets go on-sale Mid-January.
• Education Programs are On-Sale Now!

The 2025 Season
will tickle you, take your breath away, and leave you breathless with laughter and wonderment!

Old Stories, New Stories, Music, Dance, and Dreams take the stage at Lost Nation -  your award-winning professional theater!

LNT has been hailed as “one of the Best Regional Theaters in America” by NYC Drama League and "Theater of the Decade" by Broadway World's 2020 Regional Theatre Awards.

Look for longtime LNT performers, directors, and designers from the past 35+ years at Montpelier City Hall! 

Artists like:

Abby Paige- Abby's dimensional and disarming original solo shows, Piecework: When We Were French; Les Filles du Quoi?, along with her sublime performances in David Budbill's Judevine, Pride & Prejudice, etc, have endeared her to so many. What a treat to have her onstage with us again.

Stoph Scheer - who won howls of laughter starring in such shows as Complete Works of Shakespeare-Abridged, Hound of the Baskervilles,  etc) and touched hearts in 2024's I Am My Own Wife.  

Eric Love (actor: 39 Steps, Fully Committed, director: Eurydice, The Prom) is back to direct and take the stage! It's been 10 years since he's been seen on the LNT Stage! We're so thrilled!

Plus versatile virtuoso musical director Tim Guiles (Side by Side, Sweeney Todd, The Prom et al) and choreographer/actor/dancer/singer Taryn Noelle (Cabaret, Hairspray), designers Jessica Della Pepa Clayton, John Devlin, Mark Evancho, Cora Fauser, director Joanne Greenberg and of course artistic directors Kim Bent and Kathleen Keenan.

Join us in 2025 for shows that celebrate:

• forging news paths,

• making connections,

• overcoming our missteps,

• and making our voices heard

 

All in typical LNT "eclectic" style - with comedy, drama, musical theater, and a pulitzer-prize-winning rock opera!

 

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On The MainStage in 2025:

(scroll down for Special Events and Theater FOR Kids BY Kids Shows)

April 9–13:  TOO FAT FOR CHINA

by Phoebe Potts

Winner: 2023 "BEST STORYTELLING"  
United Solo - world's largest solo performance theater festival

"Fascinating, riotous and Raw" - National Public Radio

Phoebe Potts wants a tiny little baby, & she's stopping at nothing to get one.

Her hilarious, award-winning solo takes a comic look on the agony of adoption.

The journey starts where she grew up in Brooklyn. 
Not the lavendar-kale Brooklyn you of present day - but old-school Brooklyn, where everyone was Jewish.

Phoebe's hilarious, heartfelt performance chronicles her quest - and takes us on a journey that encompasses race, religion, interconnectedness and love.
Deeply heartfelt, wholly uproarious: the show is honest, brave, illuminating, and very entertaining.

 

June 5–15: THE REVOLUTIONISTS

By Lauren Gunderson  
“It’s simply a brilliant script…” — CityBeat Cincinnati

Four beautiful, badass women (a writer, a spy, an assassin and a Queen) lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution.

Is the pen mightier than the sword?
Is Sisterhood??

This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction.
Abby Paige stars.

"…a sassy, hold-on-to-your-seats theatrical adventure…[Gunderson] has created a play that is wonderfully wild and raucous…It’s a wild ride!"
— Cincinnati Enquirer

“…an astoundingly accomplished show…a cause for rejoicing…Ingeniously conceived and delivered.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

 

 

July 17 –August 3: THE DROWSY CHAPERON -the musical comedy  

Music and lyrics: Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison composed the music and lyrics.
Book: Bob Martin and Don McKella
(Bob Martin also wrote The Prom!)

IT'S ONE SHOW-STOPPING NUMBER AFTER ANOTHER!
Winner of FIVE Tony Awards!

Eric Love is back to direct and Star in this award winning Spectacular!
Taryn Noelle choreographs and Stars!  Tim Guiles is our musical director!

When a die-hard theatre fan plays his favorite cast album, the characters come to life in this hilarious musical farce. A loving send-up of the "golden age" of musicals.

It's Got a Little of Everything! Show Tunes, Tycoons, Mafia Goons and Looney Tunes!

"A Musical inside a Comedy!"

 

October 2-19 - NEXT TO NORMAL
by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt

Winner: Pulitzer Prize for Drama!
               3 Tony Awards!

A soaring Rock Opera as exhilarating as it is haunting.

The story centers on a mother’s struggle with worsening bipolar disorder and the aftershocks her illness has on the entire family, as they all search for 'normalcy'.

An emotional powerhouse.
Directed by Joanne Greenberg.
Featuring Kathleen Keenan.

"A brave, breathtaking musical!" - NY Times
"Best of the season!” - Rolling Stone

 

Special Events (in chronological order):

Available online through Dec 31, 2024: Two For Christmas by David Budbill
“Two for Christmas” is two shows in one.
Travel back in time to 1479 England for Act 1 — and end up in Budbill’s mythical Judevine with Antoine, Doug, Arnie, and Tommy in Act 2!
 Get Tickets HERE for the digital experience

 

Available online through Dec 31, 2024:  A Christmas Carol- A Ghost Story
Willem Lange's inimitable performance of Charles Dickens' winter holiday classic.
Lange uses the same "cutting" of the tale that Dickens himself performed.
 Get Tickets HERE for the digital experience

 

December 31, 2024 MONTPELIER'S NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION: THE BEAT GOES ON!

Following up on last year’s highly successful collaboration, Shidaa Projects and Lost Nation Theater are once again making plans to lead Montpelier’s New Year’s Eve 2024-2025 celebrations with THE BEAT GOES ON’ at City Hall Arts Center!

The undeniable and irresistible joy of Singing, Storytelling, Dancing, and Drumming will take the stage at LNT from 4 PM to 5:30 PM! THE BEAT GOES ON

LNT will be live-streaming the concert that begins at 4pm. The livestream will become a digital recording that will be available through January 5, 2025.

Drumming workshops for youth in the afternoon. Funded in part by Montpelier Alive. Get the Details Here

 

February 12 & 13, 2025: The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Lost Nation Theater is thrilled to be bringing this ground-breaking theatrical experience, still all too relevant today, to central Vermont once again!
A staged reading performed by veteran LNT actors, directed by Kathleen Keenan.

Spellbinding, funny, and almost unbearably moving.”  – Variety
Benefits LNT & Mosaic VT. 
Two Days Only!

 

March 19 - Look for a celebration of LNT's 2025 Mainstage Season. We're gonna raise the roof with fun! Details forthcoming!

April : Anything Goes Poetry Slam hosted by Geof Hewitt  - LNT proudly partners with Kellogg-Hubbard Library once again to celebrate Poem City and April as Poetry Month in Montpelier with this annual, wild, fun, Slam for all ages. (Exact dated TBD)

 

Fri-Sun, May 2 – 4: Puppet Seance
An Occult Summoning & Also A Variety Show & Also an Advice Show.

A full evening of puppet & performance wizardry...
and there may be some naughty bits!

Stoph Scheer & Anthony Sellitto-Budney join forces for an unforgettable sharing of puppetry, chaos, and spiritualism. 
What could go wrong? 

LNT is proud to host "Puppet Seance's" premiere!

In the Fall:
Staged Reading of LNT's STONE - Kim Bent's prize-winning play celebrating central Vermont's Granite Community - to honor the 20th Anniversary of the show's creation.

Showcases of Abenaki singers and storytellers such as Bryan Blanchette;

 

Theater FOR Kids BY Kids

March 1 & 2, 2025:  Tuck Everlasting (TYA Version)

Based on the best-selling children’s classic by Natalie Babbitt
adapted for the stage by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, and featuring a soaring score from Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen. 
“Tuck startles with its emotional resonance and theatrical force! A warm-spirited and piercingly touching musical!”
– The New York Times” 

Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but when she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck family she gets more than she could have imagined.

The TYA edition of Tuck Everlasting is a 60-minute version of the Broadway production and a wonderfully imaginative ensemble-oriented show - providing opportunities for all performers to shine. 
(The culminating project of LNT’s advanced intermediate dance-theater production camp, performed by LNT's students age 9-18.).
Directed & Choreographed by Taryn Noelle. Musical Director Timothy Guiles.

August 8, 2024: FRACTURED FABLES - African Tales
directed by Alexa Kartschoke

The culmination of LNT's "Fractured Fables - Ensemble Storytelling" theater camp, has campers presenting their original 30-minute fully-staged show! 

The script is created original sources, and cast improvisation in consultation with Shidaa Projects.
Features West African drumming and dance.
From Page to Stage in just 1 week! More details to come!

2025 Education Programs announced too! Click Here to Read More
 

All shows subject to change due to rights availability

Curtain Times will remain the same!

Sadly, the elevator (knocked out of commission by the flood) in our home within Montpelier City Hall will not be able to be replaced in time for the show - but we will be live-streaming for those who aren't able to be with us in person since we cannot provide wheelchair/walker access during this emergency situation. Please call us (802-229-0492) or email info@lostnationtheater.org for more details.

New Season Ticket/Subscriptions Packages for 2025!  Check Them Out!

 

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