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Performing arts theater in Dorset, Vermont Professional performing-arts theater, producing new & classic plays for more than 30 years. Dorset Theatre Festival is a professional not-for-profit regional theatre now in its 45th summer season at the Dorset Playhouse. Over the past decade the Festival has become a national incubator for new play development, committed to nurturing innovative, authentic new plays and playwrights who celebrate our common humanity. In any given year, the Festival is developing more than a dozen new plays and robustly supporting the production of World Premieres, as well as Regional Premieres and second and third productions of new works. Our mission is to create bold, innovative, and authentic theatre. Enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring our audience through the celebration of great plays. We produce theatre that matters.