Veronica Barron

theater artist | puppeteer | music-maker

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12 Feb

Feb 7: School of HONK Dance launches First Sunday Dance Parties!

Golden sequined wristbands. Polka dotted dresses and hats. Mardi Gras masks. Sunday, February 7th was both a joyous School of HONK Mardi Gras “Fat Sunday” parade, and also the launch…

18 Jan

Jan 7: Debuted new dance-theater piece at Return to Org

Jaggery released an eerily beautiful new music video (featuring gorgeous Butoh dance by Jennifer Hicks, with choreography that debuted at Liars and Believers’ Interference two years ago!), As The Sparrow rocked out,…

18 Dec

I’m on a podcast: reading Thoreau on “Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon”!

If it were my job to read poetry into a microphone more often, I would not be sad about that! I’m on at 24:00 and 40:00, reading excerpts from Thoreau’s journals,…

03 Dec

Sunday, Dec. 6: singing at a Storytelling Symposium with Diane Edgecomb

Storytelling Symposium – December 6, 4:30PM (following the 2PM performance ofArabian Nights). Hear local storytellers perform their work and explain why they believe storytelling is important today. Event is free and…

18 Nov

Arabian Nights at Central Square Theater (Nov 27, 2015-Jan 3, 2016)

I am so delighted to be joining the cast of Central Square Theater’s Arabian Nights for it’s fifth (and final!) year. We’ve got your nefarious thieves, clever servants, greedy rich men,…

18 Nov

Nov 5-22, 2015: Who Would Be King

WHO WOULD BE KING presented by Liars and Believers at OBERON in Harvard Square November 5-22 ACCESSIBILITY: * Oberon is a wheelchair accessible venue. * All performances feature super-title captions ** Audio description will be…

19 Sep

Sep 2015: House concert with Lukas Papenfusscline!

Lukas and I gave a house concert in an art studio! Lukas and I met doing a theater piece together—Liars and Believers’s Americana “songplay” ICARUS—and quickly realized that we share a…

03 Aug

Aug 13: ICARUS at the National Puppetry Festival!

Here we go again, dusting off the ol’ dust bowl for a one-night engagement at the National Puppetry Festival! I’ll get to share the stage once more with Aimee Rose…

20 Jul

July 16: songs about social justice at Outside the Box festival!

My art definitely comes from my political and social consciousness, but I’ve never been billed explicitly as such. It was inspiring to be part of this lineup. More, please! At UnCommon Ground:…

08 May

May 15: Performing a feature set at The Top Floor

I’ll be performing a 45-minute set of music and theater at The Top Floor, a monthly listening party in Worcester. I’m delighted to note that Aimee Rose Ranger will be opening…

01 May

May 1: puppeteering at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston!

What a delight! I got to join in as a guest performer for Jaggery’s stellar da Vinci-inspired show at the Museum of Fine Arts. Tony Leva made a crankie (his…

31 Mar

April 11: opening for Phil Berman’s album release show!

Join Phil Berman at Puppet Showplace Theater as he plays through his new record “The Battle of Bunker Hill,” featuring an intimate string ensemble and special guest Veronica Barron (that’s…

21 Jan

Feb 19: premiering a NEW clown piece with Aimee Rose Ranger!

Aimee Rose Ranger and I are making our first new piece together since we made Winning Higgins’s Love: a clown tragedy way back in 2011. We are excited. (!!!) You…

19 Jan

Dec 31, 2015: Winning Higgins’s Love at Boston’s First Night

We’ve had a fun new year season for Winning Higgins’s Love: a clown tragedy: performing at a large public festival (First Night Boston, as part of Puppet Showplace Theater Late Night Puppet Cabaret)… and…

22 Oct

Now playing through Nov 23: Ether Dome with the Huntington Theatre Company!

I’m delighted to be making my Huntington Theatre Company debut playing a variety of maids, patients, and 19th-century vaudeville girls in Ether Dome, a new historical drama (with many darkly…

25 Sep

Carmen Miranda loves bikes, hates food waste

Last Sunday, September 21st, I completed my second annual Ride for Food on behalf of Food For Free, the scrappy Cambridge nonprofit I work for part-time. We are an anti-hunger…

18 Jul

Performing as a puppeteer in What the Moon Saw: Aug/Sep 2014

I’ll be joining UNIMA-winning puppeteers Sarah Frechette and Faye Dupras as the third puppeteer/performer in Sarah’s/PUPPETKABOB’s What the Moon Saw, a fairy tale for kids and grownups adapted from Hans Christian…

18 Jul

Writing songs for Her Aching Heart – Jul 10-Aug10 at Central Square Theater

I’m so pleased to have composed new music and vocal arrangements, set to playwright Bryony Lavery’s lyrics, for The Nora Theatre Company’s Her Aching Heart, presented at the Central Square…

02 May

My sad and lovely ballad from ICARUS

The beautiful music is written by Nathan Leigh, composer of the score for ICARUS.

30 Apr

Songs from Vinegar Tom!

Vinegar Tom was a special project, and those of us involved still talk about it as such. It’s on my mind now, as I recently attended Whistler in the Dark’s…

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