March 2012
Thursday, March 1
My Week with Marilyn
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl” with Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams).
Friday, March 2
The Love of Beer
Alison Grayson’s documentary on women in the craft beer industry. It’s not for feminism or equality, it’s for “The Love of Beer.” Local brewers panel to follow film. Presented in affiliation with Portsmouth Beer Week (Feb. 29-Mar.5)
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Saturday, March 3
Comedy of Errors
Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale.
Carnage
Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz star in Roman Polanski’s latest film. Carnage is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences.
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Sunday, March 4
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Carnage
Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz star in Roman Polanski’s latest film. Carnage is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences.
Tuesday, March 6
The Math Maniac Show with Max Millions
Math matters! If you want to add fun, subtract boredom, multiply test scores and keep your students’ undivided attention, then The Math Maniac Show is your correct answer to an A+ educational program. When students have fun, learning happens!
Carnage
Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz star in Roman Polanski’s latest film. Carnage is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences.
Wednesday, March 7
Manufacturing Stoke
An introspective look into the surfing culture’s struggle to be beneficial unto itself. Presented in affiliation with (H)eat and Surfrider Foundation, New Hampshire Chapter.
Thursday, March 8
Carnage
Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz star in Roman Polanski’s latest film. Carnage is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences.
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Friday, March 9
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Altan
The most talked-about traditional group to emerge from Ireland, Altan plays the music of Donegal, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Saturday, March 10
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Sunday, March 11
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz
Join the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of John Page with cello soloist Dorothy Braker for a performance featuring Berlioz, Tchaikovsky and Brahms.
Monday, March 12
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: The Play Reading Series
Top professional actors read exceptional contemporary plays — with no costumes, props, sets, or special lighting. The acclaimed spoken word series moves to Portsmouth.
Tuesday, March 13
Shame
Brandon (Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds) is a New Yorker with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves in, his life spirals out of control.
Wednesday, March 14
Shame
Brandon (Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds) is a New Yorker with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves in, his life spirals out of control.
Thursday, March 15
Shame
Brandon (Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds) is a New Yorker with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves in, his life spirals out of control.
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Friday, March 16
A Separation
Winner of Best Foreign Language Film Oscar! Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh - she sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Subtitled.
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
Saturday, March 17
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
A Separation
Winner of Best Foreign Language Film Oscar! Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh - she sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Subtitled.
Sunday, March 18
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: Lanford Wilson's Burn This
Anna loses her best friend Robbie in a tragic accident. Then a man shows up on her doorstep who could be his double – but is different in every other way. This work rockets between hilarity, pain, and desire as it tells the story of two people falling in love for all the wrong reasons.
A Separation
Winner of Best Foreign Language Film Oscar! Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh - she sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Subtitled.
Tuesday, March 20
A Separation
Winner of Best Foreign Language Film Oscar! Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh - she sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Subtitled.
Wednesday, March 21
A Separation
Winner of Best Foreign Language Film Oscar! Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh - she sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Subtitled.
Thursday, March 22
The Art of Print & Graphic Design
The Music Hall & New Hampshire Tweet Up l are teaming up to bring you another Digital Portsmouth @ The Loft to showcase the creative, digital culture that is thriving on the Seacoast.
A Separation
Winner of Best Foreign Language Film Oscar! Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh - she sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Subtitled.
Friday, March 23
PMAC: Fifth Annual Jazz Night
The Portsmouth Music and Arts Center’s Fifth Annual Jazz Night replicates a Jazz Club in the intimate setting of The Music Hall Loft.
Get the Led Out
At sold out shows around the nation, Get the Led Out recreates the mythic career of the legendary British supergroup, Led Zeppelin.
Saturday, March 24
RPM Challenge 2012
The RPM Challenge is an annual creative challenge to musicians to write and record an original album during the month of February, just for fun. Then, at the end of March, we celebrate by getting together and listening to all the new music!
Pina
Pina is a film for choreographer Pina Bausch (“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost”) by Wim Wenders. A sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble.
Sunday, March 25
Pina
Pina is a film for choreographer Pina Bausch (“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost”) by Wim Wenders. A sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble.
Tuesday, March 27
Pina
Pina is a film for choreographer Pina Bausch (“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost”) by Wim Wenders. A sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble.
Wednesday, March 28
ImaginOcean
A one-of-a-kind live black-light puppet show, Tony Award – nominee John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean is a magical undersea adventure. Tank, Bubbles and Dorsel are three best friends who just happen to be fish, and they’re about to set out on a journey of discovery which begins with a treasure map.
Pina
Pina is a film for choreographer Pina Bausch (“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost”) by Wim Wenders. A sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble.
Thursday, March 29
2012 - 2013 Season Sneak Peek
2012 - 2013 Season Sneak Peek for Corporate Partners & Major Donors.
Friday, March 30
Agadez, The Music and the Rebellion
A documentary film about the Tuareg culture, features the music of the extraordinary Tuareg musician, Omara Moctar, “Bombino.” Presented in affiliation with Rain for the Sahel and Sahara.
Saturday, March 31
She Stoops to Conquer
A young lady poses as a servant girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. Many delightful deceits and hilarious plot turns ensue as misdemeanors multiply, love blossoms, and mayhem ensues in this celebration of chaos, courtship, and the dysfunctional family.
Pariah
Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn and is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian.
