Between now and Telluride By The Sea (September 20–22 this year), we have so much goodness for you on the screens of The Music Hall and the Loft, that it’s difficult to contain ourselves! Read More
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The 5th Annual Fill the Hall Food Drive is Saturday, June 22. I spoke with Deb Anthony, Executive Director at Gather, about what this event means for the community and the need to fill every seat.Read More
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We finished up the third year of our Give The Gift of Magic program in December, and with your generosity and with inspiration from Morgan and Tara Rutman, we were able to shatter our previous goals! Read More
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The holiday season is the season of gift giving, and what better way to honor that then to give to those in need. This year’s Ogunquit Playhouse production of Elf The Musical is pure magic with great costumes and tons of hilarity, all wrapped up in our festively decorated Historic Theater.Read More
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On October 4 at 5:30pm in the Loft, opera expert/writer-producer Dennis Neil Kleinman returns to lead a lively discussion previewing the upcoming season of The Met at The Music Hall, which kicks off this month with Verdi's Aida and Puccini's La Fanciulla del West. This Opera Connection event fills up quick, so RSVP soon.Read More
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Prepare for Telluride by the Sea (TbtS) with a few tips and tricks we’ve learned over the past 20 years!
BUY A PASS: All year long, most of us carefully choose what movies we'd like to go out (or remain on our couch) to watch. Here's a chance to maybe challenge yourself to try a film that might not initially draw you. Read More
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The Pences moved to Portsmouth in 1999. That same year they approached the local movie house, The Music Hall, with an idea to bring to their new community a set of film premieres, a sample of six films from the esteemed Telluride Film Festival, which they had helped found back in 1974. The Music Hall accepted.Read More
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Twenty years ago, Bill and Stella Pence relocated to Portsmouth. They had been co-founders of Telluride Film Festival in Colorado in 1974 (now in its 45th year), the festival about which Roger Ebert said, “[it’s] like Cannes died and went to heaven.” Read More
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