This August, New England Youth Theatre (NEYT) invites audiences to turn up the volume with Head Over Heels, a bold, hilarious, and heartfelt musical featuring the iconic songs by the Go-Go's; based on The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney; Conceived and Original book by Jeff Whitty; Adapted by James Magruder. 

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Written in 1788 by English playwright Elizabeth Inchbald, Animal Magnetism is a lively comedy of disguises, deception, and romance. When a young woman finds herself under the watchful eye of her controlling guardian, a clever suitor devises an elaborate scheme involving the fashionable craze of "animal magnetism" to win her heart. Filled with mistaken identities, quick wit, and theatrical hijinks, the play pokes fun at pseudoscience while celebrating love's ability to outsmart even the most carefully laid plans.

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This one-of-a-kind, youth-driven devised production is led by Director and Writer Kelindah Bee, with Assistant Director and Co-writer Shannon Ward. It explores what it means to come of age in a world shaped by power, pressure, and possibility.

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This April 10-12, New England Youth Theatre will present its Senior Company of student actors and crew in Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Eric Bass, founder of Sandglass Theater, will direct this musical and mask-filled take on the parable of the Judgement of King Solomon.

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On February 20-22, New England Youth Theatre will present its Junior Company in Jack and the Devil's Three Golden Hairs. A musical melodrama written by NEYT founder Stephen Stearns and the beloved Brattleboro folk music icon Peter Amidon, Jack is a mishmash of Brothers Grimm and classic vaudevillian stage antics!

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This holiday season, New England Youth Theatre presents Louisa May Alcott’s timeless tale of family love and perseverance: Little Women, adapted by Marisha Chamberlain and directed by NEYT’s Artistic Director, Ben Stockman. The four March sisters and their mother Marmee face new hardships when Mr. March leaves home to serve as a Union chaplain in the U.S. Civil War. Having lost their family’s fortune, their deep affection for one another, innate hopefulness, and inner spark of creativity are all they have to carry them through.

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Please join New England Youth Theatre (NEYT) for an evening of bowstrings, bullseyes and benevolent beguilement as NEYT’s Junior Company presents Robin Hood (or, How Robin Hood Became Robin Hood, and How He Met His Friends, Had Several Adventures, Gave Up His Outlaw Life, and Became an Immortal Political and Economical Organizer)! Written by Peter Gould and directed by John Hadden, this production of Robin Hood has a topsy-turvy tumble of silly puns, fantastical feats of derring-do, archery contests, and of course, heroic deeds of proactive wealth redistribution!

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