For much of the last decade, Keryn Nightingale has brought a fantastical lens to her personal narratives. This Saturday she’ll once again turn to an archetypal story to illuminate her own life when she performs “Dolls in My Pocket” at the Big Picture Theater at 7 p.m. in Waitsfield.

When Phantom Theater brings Beckett’s “Happy Days” to Warren’s Edgcomb Barn on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 17-18, the audience will be treated to his most accessible play, a masterpiece laced with the brilliant playwright’s offbeat sensibility that is also laugh-out-loud funny.

In the Mad River Valley, nothing says summer like theater in a barn. Now in its 39th year, Phantom Theater returns to the beautiful Edgcomb Barn in Warren for a season rich with theater, dance, circus arts, music and storytelling. 

In “Playing the Game,” a new work by Vermont performance artist Denise Casey, the audience takes a journey through the many ways Casey has tried to fit in with surprising results.