BENNINGTON — As part of the Basement Music Series, Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE) is excited to present a night of brass-fueled, swinging music of New Orleans with the Soggy Po' Boys, at 7 p.m. Friday at the Mount Anthony Union (MAU) High School Auditorium, 301 Park St. in Bennington.

When Amrish Puri, known for playing the menacing arch villain in Bollywood, was asked to audition for the role of a tantrik (occultist) in “Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom” (1984), he refused and was disinterested in the part. Upon the insistence of his casting director, he asked the Holly…

BRATTLEBORO — Theatre Adventure, a creative community offering year-round hybrid programming to youth and adults with disabilities, will present an original adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s "Alice in Wonderland."

BRATTLEBORO — Eugene Uman and Elsa Borrero of Brattleboro have been named among as Jazz Heroes by the Jazz Journalists Association in a class 33 “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz” in 29 locales across the United States, Canada and Baja California (Mexico).

BRATTLEBORO — On May 2, Deborahanne Mayer and Ben Mitchell will perform at Bar 580 in Brattleboro.