With comedy, literary, music, and so much more, there’s something for everyone on our smaller, intimate stage!

[CANCELED] Chastity Brown

Sunday, November 9, 2025

• The Music Hall Lounge

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a scheduling conflict with her tour, this performance has been canceled. All ticket buyers have been contacted. Please reach out to Patron Services if you have any questions at info@themusichall.org or 603.436.2400. The Minnesota-based musician returns to The Lounge with her sound that fuses folk, rock, and blues, rich with melodic sensibility and honest emotion.

Jenny Reynolds & Jess Klein

Sunday, November 16, 2025

• The Music Hall Lounge

This co-headline features Austin-based artist Jenny Reynolds, a native New Englander whose music has taken her to festival stages across the circuit, and Jess Klein, a nationally and internationally touring artist who has been described as “a songwriter with a voice of unblinking tenacity” (The New York Times).

Seacoast Sips of Science: Mapping the Seafloor

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

• The Music Hall Lounge

Researchers from UNH’s world-leading Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping share the latest findings and insights from the leading edge of ocean mapping and hydrography.

Pints! Camera! Action! - Election (1999)

Friday, November 28, 2025

• The Music Hall Lounge

Cult and classic movies with cold beers on draft and hot takes encouraged. A sociable, big screen brouhaha with no tickets, no ushers, and definitely no shushing.

Tracy K. Smith

Thursday, December 18, 2025

• The Music Hall Lounge

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and 22nd US Poet Laureate demystifies the art form to reveal how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding.  Evening's Moderator: Diannely Antigua, 13th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth and author of Ugly Music and Good Monster

A Sinatra Christmas with Rich DiMare and Ron Poster

Monday, December 22, 2025

• The Music Hall Lounge

“A Sinatra Christmas” returns to The Music Hall Lounge with all your holiday favorites mixed with Frank’s iconic beloved songs, performed by Rich DiMare and The Ron Poster Trio.

Alix Morris

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

• The Music Hall Lounge

Environmental journalist Alix Morris spends an eye-opening year getting to know these elusive, intelligent creatures, investigating their extraordinary return from the brink of extinction and how to bring nature back into balance.