Calendar

September 2012

Saturday, September 1

Music Hall Presents @ The Historic Theater

First Saturdays for Members

Show Time: 10:00 am

“First Saturdays” for members, offering special ticket on-sales, early-bird box office hours, merchandise discounts, and curator talks the first Saturday of every month!

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

Queen of Versailles

Show Time: 7:00 pm

The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.

Sunday, September 2

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

Queen of Versailles

Show Time: 7:00 pm

The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.

Tuesday, September 4

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

Queen of Versailles

Show Time: 7:00 pm

The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.

Wednesday, September 5

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

Queen of Versailles

Show Time: 7:00 pm

The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.

Thursday, September 6

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

Queen of Versailles

Show Time: 7:00 pm

The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.

Friday, September 7

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

2 Days in New York

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Hip talk-radio host and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock) and his French photographer girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy), live cozily in a New York apartment with their cat and two young children. But when Marion’s family unceremoniously descends upon them for an overseas visit, two unforgettable days of family mayhem ensue.

Saturday, September 8

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

2 Days in New York

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Hip talk-radio host and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock) and his French photographer girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy), live cozily in a New York apartment with their cat and two young children. But when Marion’s family unceremoniously descends upon them for an overseas visit, two unforgettable days of family mayhem ensue.

Sunday, September 9

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

2 Days in New York

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Hip talk-radio host and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock) and his French photographer girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy), live cozily in a New York apartment with their cat and two young children. But when Marion’s family unceremoniously descends upon them for an overseas visit, two unforgettable days of family mayhem ensue.

Monday, September 10

Rental Partners @ The Music Hall Loft

Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents: The Play Reading Series

Show Time: 7:30 pm

Top professional actors read exceptional contemporary plays — with no costumes, props, sets, or special lighting. The acclaimed spoken word series moves to Portsmouth.

Tuesday, September 11

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Music Hall Loft

2 Days in New York

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Hip talk-radio host and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock) and his French photographer girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy), live cozily in a New York apartment with their cat and two young children. But when Marion’s family unceremoniously descends upon them for an overseas visit, two unforgettable days of family mayhem ensue.

Thursday, September 13

Writers in The Loft @ The Music Hall Loft

Lee Child

Show Time: 7:30 pm

Join us for a public signing. Buy the book, meet the author and get it signed 5:30 - 6:30 before the show in the Loft. The mega bestselling author of the Jack Reacher mystery novels (The Affair, 61 Hours, Worth Dying For) joins us with his newest explosive thriller, A WANTED MAN.

Friday, September 14

Telluride by the Sea @ The Historic Theater

Telluride by the Sea

Show Time: All Day

A Weekend Festival of New Cinema! Films fresh from their debuts at the 39th Telluride Film Festival in Colorado will be on screen at The Music Hall as Telluride by the Sea gets its 14th year under way.

Telluride by the Sea @ The Historic Theater

Midnight's Children

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Born at the hour and the date of India’s self-declared independence from British rule, Saleem is switched at birth from a life of illegitimacy and poverty into a family of wealth and prosperity.

Saturday, September 15

Telluride by the Sea @ The Historic Theater

Telluride by the Sea

Show Time: All Day

A Weekend Festival of New Cinema! Films fresh from their debuts at the 39th Telluride Film Festival in Colorado will be on screen at The Music Hall as Telluride by the Sea gets its 14th year under way.

Telluride by the Sea @ The Music Hall Loft

Film Noir

Show Times: 10:30 am, 3:45 pm

The Telluride Film Festival in Colorado has long championed the style known as Film Noir. This year at Telluride by the Sea, we are sharing with pass holders three hardboiled, dark, low budget, gritty classics, previously featured at TFF.

Telluride by the Sea @ The Historic Theater

Rust and Bone

Show Time: 1:30 pm

Jacques Audiard follows his essential crime drama A Prophet (TBTS 2009) with the stuff of romance: mismatched lovers facing extraordinary obstacles.

Telluride by the Sea @ The Historic Theater

Hyde Park on Hudson

Show Time: 6:15 pm

In 1939, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his family invite the timid new King of England to visit.  Director Roger Michell and screenwriter Richard Nelson weave together a gentle comedy of manners with an inside glimpse of how political goals get achieved.

Telluride by the Sea @ The Historic Theater

A Royal Affair

Show Time: 8:30 pm

The most scandalous chapter in Denmark’s history also provides romantic tragedy worthy of Ibsen or Tolstoy. Around 1770, as King Christian VII struggles with mental illness, Johann Struensee, his trusted physician, begins an adulterous love affair with Queen Caroline Mathilde.

Sunday, September 16

Telluride by the Sea @ The Historic Theater

Telluride by the Sea

Show Time: All Day

A Weekend Festival of New Cinema! Films fresh from their debuts at the 39th Telluride Film Festival in Colorado will be on screen at The Music Hall as Telluride by the Sea gets its 14th year under way.

Telluride by the Sea @ The Historic Theater

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

Show Times: 10:15 am, 6:30 pm

Part of this year’s TFF tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director-producer, and seminal influencing force in modern moviemaking over the last 60 years.

Telluride by the Sea @

No

Show Time: 1:30 pm

In 1988, Chileans prepare to vote on the future of the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet. René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal - Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries), a guileless and successful ad exec, is approached to construct a media campaign to help defeat Pinochet.

Telluride by the Sea @ The Music Hall Loft

Film Noir

Show Time: 4:00 pm

The Telluride Film Festival in Colorado has long championed the style known as Film Noir. This year at Telluride by the Sea, we are sharing with pass holders three hardboiled, dark, low budget, gritty classics, previously featured at TFF.

Tuesday, September 18

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Historic Theater

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Show Time: 7:00 pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

Wednesday, September 19

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Historic Theater

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Show Time: 7:00 pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

National Theatre London HD @ The Music Hall Loft

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Based on the international best-selling novel by Mark Haddon and adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens it offers a richly theatrical exploration of the touching and bleakly humorous novel and will be broadcast from the National’s smallest theatre, the Cottesloe.

Thursday, September 20

Wildcard Movies @ The Historic Theater

Dr. No (1962)

Show Time: 7:00 pm

The first Bond film’s 50th anniversary! Terence Young directed this first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming’s unflappable British Secret Service Agent 007 in a fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek style that set the tone for the rest of the popular series.

Friday, September 21

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Historic Theater

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Show Time: 7:00 pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

Intimately Yours @ The Historic Theater

Art Garfunkel

Show Time: 8:00 pm

The Friday, September 21st Art Garfunkel concert date has been pulled by the artist for health reasons.

Saturday, September 22

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Historic Theater

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Show Time: 7:00 pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

Monday, September 24

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Historic Theater

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Show Time: 7:00 pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

Tuesday, September 25

Wildcard Movies @ The Historic Theater

How to Grow a Band

Show Time: 7:00 pm

26-year-old Chris Thile is at a crossroads. His marriage has ended, and his platinum-selling band, Nickel Creek, has gone on “indefinite hiatus.” But Thile, a perfectionist prodigy who’s defied expectations since he learned the mandolin at age five, has a plan.

Wednesday, September 26

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Historic Theater

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Show Time: 7:00 pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

Hilarity @ The Music Hall Loft

Ida's Book Club

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Join us for a hilarious spoof of The Music Hall’s celebrated literary programs featuring Susan Poulin
Writers on a Mahoosuc Mills Stage Presents: Author Ida LeClair (the alter-ego of popular performer Susan Poulin) wants to help you live a better, happier life.

Thursday, September 27

Hilarity @ The Historic Theater

Margaret Cho

Show Time: 7:30 pm

Margaret Cho’s all new standup show, Mother, offers up an untraditional look at motherhood and how we look at maternal figures and strong women. It’s probably her edgiest show to date, filled with riotous observations on race, drugs, sexuality - gay-straight-everything in between, celebrity, culture, politics - nothing is sacred - least of all this Mother – “the fearless stand up queen.” (VenusZine). Mature content.

Friday, September 28

Rental Partners @ The Historic Theater

Dream Factory

Show Time: 7:30 pm

Sugarloaf Mountain and Sunday River Present Dream Factory, a ski and snowboard adventure film by Teton Gravity Research. Come on out and start getting excited for the 2012/2013 ski and snowboard season! Admission includes a free lift ticket redeemable at Sugarloaf Mountain or Sunday River.

Saturday, September 29

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Historic Theater

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Show Times: 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

Music Hall Presents @

The Gala

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Just Announced! Great Live Auction items for the Gala – get your paddle ready! Charter Cruise the Gundalow Company’s Piscataqua. Discover New Orleans’ Celebrated Downtown. Enjoy Exotic Aruba Island Paradise. Fly on a PlaneSense jet to a NYC Shopping Excursion. Find the Pearl of South America: a week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sail with a Freedom Boat Club membership.

Sunday, September 30

Extraordinary Cinema @ The Historic Theater

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Show Times: 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

Live @ the Loft @ The Music Hall Loft

La Vie en Rose

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Join Austrian born, Boston-based Cabaret singer Ute Gfrerer and her talented accompanist William Merrill for a program of Kurt Weill and the American Songbook. Ute Gfrerer is not your typical cabaret singer. While she may be an attractive blond with a mellifluous singing voice and a way with a song, she is her own woman.