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On Stage

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Historical Tour @ The Historic Theater

Historical Tour

Show Time: 5:30 pm

Taking visitors behind the scenes and through the restorations, renovations and history of the celebrated 1878 theater.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Historical Tour @ The Historic Theater

Historical Tour

Show Time: 5:30 pm

Taking visitors behind the scenes and through the restorations, renovations and history of the celebrated 1878 theater.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Historical Tour @ The Historic Theater

Historical Tour

Show Time: 5:30 pm

Taking visitors behind the scenes and through the restorations, renovations and history of the celebrated 1878 theater.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Historical Tour @ The Historic Theater

Historical Tour

Show Time: 5:30 pm

Taking visitors behind the scenes and through the restorations, renovations and history of the celebrated 1878 theater.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Historical Tour @ The Historic Theater

Historical Tour

Show Time: 5:30 pm

Taking visitors behind the scenes and through the restorations, renovations and history of the celebrated 1878 theater.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Historical Tour @ The Historic Theater

Historical Tour

Show Time: 5:30 pm

Taking visitors behind the scenes and through the restorations, renovations and history of the celebrated 1878 theater.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Historical Tour @ The Historic Theater

Historical Tour

Show Time: 5:30 pm

Taking visitors behind the scenes and through the restorations, renovations and history of the celebrated 1878 theater.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Hilarity @ The Historic Theater

Potted Potter

Show Times: 7:00 pm, 9:00 pm

The New Hampshire premiere of the sold out sensation parody of Harry Potter – the original two-man cast takes on seven books in 70 minutes. Written and performed by two-time Olivier Award-nominated actors Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, Potted Potter is perfect for ages six to Dumbledore (who is very old indeed).

Saturday, May 4, 2013

On Stage @ 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!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Writers in The Loft @ The Music Hall Loft

Elinor Lipman

Show Time: 7:00 pm

Hear the award-winning “diva of dialogue” (People) discuss her latest work, the spirited tale of two sisters, suddenly roommates, recovering from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Hilarity @ The Historic Theater

Tom Cotter

Show Time: 8:00 pm

If laughter is the best medicine, prepare to be heavily medicated. This comic’s high energy, rapid-fire style of comedy leaves audiences clutching their sides and rolling in the aisles.

Monday, May 13, 2013

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, set or special lighting. The acclaimed spoken word series continues at The Loft.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

School Days Series @ The Historic Theater

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Other Story Books

Show Times: 9:30 am, 11:30 am
Sold out!

Presented by Theatreworks USA. A series of delightful stories come to life in this sparkling musical revue. In the story, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, a boy shares his snack with a hungry, demanding mouse, and learns a hilarious lesson about cause-and-effect.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Rental Partners @ The Music Hall Loft

Heather Maloney Band CD Release Show

Show Time: 8:00 pm

Womenade of Greater Squamscott presents Heather Maloney Band CD Release Show. Heather Maloney’s new album out now on Signature Sounds, is the third album for a songwriter hailed by The Huffington Post for “Terrific lyrics that cut to the chase.”

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Rental Partners @ The Historic Theater

Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra: Symphonie Fantastique and Concerto Contest Winner

Show Time: 3:00 pm

To end the year we present the winner of our annual youth concerto competition along with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Started last year, the concerto competition is one of the most exciting additions to the PSO season and provides an ideal platform for the rising stars of the next generation.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Rental Partners @ The Historic Theater

Ain't Misbehavin'

Show Times: 3:00 pm, 8:00 pm

This Tony award winning musical is a journey through the Fats Waller Songbook and Harlem in its heyday.  With snazzy period costumes, complete with bowlers, spats, ermine, and pearls, the dynamic five-member cast transforms the theater into a Harlem jazz hall.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Hilarity @ The Music Hall Loft

Miss Richfield 1981: Sweet and Sour Richfield-Made in China!

Show Time: 7:00 pm

This hysterical storyteller is winning over theater and cabaret audiences around the country with an interactive one-man drag show featuring edgy one-on-one improv, a professionally trained singing voice, and an athletic approach to physical comedy.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Hilarity @ The Music Hall Loft

Miss Richfield 1981: Sweet and Sour Richfield-Made in China!

Show Time: 7:00 pm

This hysterical storyteller is winning over theater and cabaret audiences around the country with an interactive one-man drag show featuring edgy one-on-one improv, a professionally trained singing voice, and an athletic approach to physical comedy.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Rental Partners @ The Historic Theater

RAIN presents Fatoumata Diawara

Show Time: 8:00 pm

RAIN for the Sahel and Sahara presents rising Malian star Fatoumata Diawara! Fatoumata brings her unique Malian folk/rock sound radiating passion and energy to benefit RAIN’s work with rural communities in West Africa.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Writers on a New England Stage @ The Historic Theater

Carl Hiaasen

Show Time: 7:30 pm

The #1 New York Times bestselling author is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed Florida tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of pristine land get their comeuppance in a mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Writers on a New England Stage @ The Historic Theater

Joseph Ellis

Show Time: 7:30 pm

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers and pre-eminent American historian Joseph Ellis returns to The Music Hall with his new book Revolutionary Summer, a revelatory portrait of a crescendo moment in American history.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Intimately Yours @ The Historic Theater

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Show Time: 7:30 pm

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis’ 25th Anniversary Tour is taking the world-renowned big band across the country playing classic Blue Note Records selections and tunes made famous by John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis and more.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Intimately Yours @ The Historic Theater

Dwight Yoakam

Show Time: 7:30 pm

Like the icons he so admires—Elvis, Merle, Buck—Yoakam is one of a kind. He has taken his influences and filtered them into his own potent blend of country and rock that honors his musical predecessors and yet creates something beautifully new.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Martingale Wharf Singer Songwriter Series @ The Music Hall Loft

The Brew

Show Time: 8:00 pm

This indie-rock band was founded in the small town of Amesbury, Massachusetts by high school friends. Singles like “Chance Reaching” (still spinning on Sirius XM radio) lifted the band to national exposure. The band’s 2011 release of A Garden in the Snow yielded “When Darkness Comes,” now spinning on AAA radio stations across the country.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Intimately Yours @ The Historic Theater

The Relatives

Show Time: 7:30 pm

Call it Gospel Funk! In truth, their sound is so much more. Formed in 1970 by veteran Dallas Gospel singer Rev. Gean West and his brother Tommie, the band bridges the gap between traditional Gospel and Soul.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Writers in The Loft @ The Music Hall Loft

Ty Burr

Show Time: 7:00 pm

In this captivating history of stardom, the Boston Globe film critic, former Entertainment Weekly reporter, looks at our obsession with fame from the dawn of cinema through the age of the Internet. Join Ty Burr for this fascinating evening and journey through the fame game – the flash, indulgence, and tragedy that drives American culture today.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Hilarity @ The Music Hall Loft

DARWiN'S WAiTiNG ROOM presents: Comedy, Evolved

Show Time: 8:00 pm

Its The Twilight Zone meets Monty Python with a bit of farce. Catch this family-friendly sketch comedy group before they leave for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Hilarity @ The Music Hall Loft

DARWiN'S WAiTiNG ROOM presents: Comedy, Evolved

Show Time: 8:00 pm

Its The Twilight Zone meets Monty Python with a bit of farce. Catch this family-friendly sketch comedy group before they leave for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!

Intimately Yours @ The Historic Theater

Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra

Show Time: 8:00 pm

With his band, Ethan Lipton has released four albums and played throughout New York and beyond telling tales of quirky, modern romance.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Martingale Wharf Singer Songwriter Series @ The Music Hall Loft

Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche

Show Time: 8:00 pm

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in a band with your mother? The mother-daughter duo, have just released their first collaborative album - Fairytale and Myth. Suzzy Roche is a founding member of The Roches and Lucy, who usually tours as a solo singer-songwriter, and has performed in Portsmouth at The Music Hall several times as an opening act.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Writers in The Loft @ The Music Hall Loft

J. Courtney Sullivan

Show Time: 7:00 pm

From the New York Times bestselling author of Commencement and Maine comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage—about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention of ruining it all with a wedding.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Intimately Yours @ The Historic Theater

Terence Blanchard Quintet

Show Time: 7:30 pm

Catch the renowned jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard on his way to the Newport Jazz Festival! After making a name for himself as a top-tier jazz trumpeter, the New Orleans-based musician has gone on to enjoy a multifaceted career not only as a remarkable trumpeter, but also as a composer, arranger, and bandleader.

Friday, August 2, 2013

Martingale Wharf Singer Songwriter Series @ The Music Hall Loft

Pearl and the Beard

Show Time: 8:00 pm

Three voices, one cello, one guitar, one glockenspiel, one melodica, several drums, one accordion, ninety-six teeth, and one soul. The band’s genre-bending and expectation-defying sound has since burst the trio out of the confines of the New York music scene, allowing them to traipse the United States on a multitude of national tours and across the pond for a hugely successful inaugural UK tour in 2011.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Rental Partners @ The Historic Theater

PARMA Music Festival Presents Richard Stoltzman, Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra and Many More

Show Time: 7:00 pm

The PARMA Music Festival’s main event, featuring world premieres by renowned composer Lukas Foss with legendary clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra, trombonist David Taylor, clarinetist Matthias Müller, the PARMA Orchestra, and many more.

Monday, September 16, 2013

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, set or special lighting. The acclaimed spoken word series continues at The Loft.

Monday, October 14, 2013

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, set or special lighting. The acclaimed spoken word series continues at The Loft.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Met @ The Music Hall @ The Music Hall Loft

Opera Connection: Tosca

Show Time: 11:30 am

Opera expert/writer-producer Dennis Kleinman will lead a lively discussion on Tosca. Doors open an hour before – come early for coffee and pastries!

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Met @ The Music Hall @ The Music Hall Loft

Opera Connection: Falstaff

Show Time: 10:30 am

Opera expert/writer-producer Dennis Kleinman will lead a lively discussion on Falstaff. Doors open an hour before – come early for coffee and pastries!

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Met @ The Music Hall @ The Music Hall Loft

Opera Connection: Prince Igor

Show Time: 10:30 am

Opera expert/writer-producer Dennis Kleinman will lead a lively discussion on Prince Igor. Doors open an hour before – come early for coffee and pastries!