Committed to What’s Next

Whether it is a child’s first live theater experience or a talk about the future of driverless cars, The Music Hall is committed to what is coming next in education and innovation.

The best in children’s theater brings books, plays, and music to life in our School Days Series.

In our Innovation + Leadership series, local and international leaders share experiences and knowledge on today’s hot topics.

Talks

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.

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Lit. at The Lounge

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.

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Talks

[RESCHEDULED] The Princess Bride: An Inconceivable Evening with Cary Elwes

Saturday, February 21, 2026

• The Historic Theater

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a scheduling conflict, The Princess Bride: An Inconceivable Evening with Cary Elwes event has been rescheduled to Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 7:30PM. After a screening of the iconic movie The Princess Bride, actor and star Cary Elwes (Westley) will engage in a moderated discussion revealing never before shared secrets and tales of inconceivable antics!

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School Days Series

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

• The Historic Theater

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales deconstructs the tradition of the fairy tale. Characters slide in and out of tales; Cinderella rebuffs Rumpelstiltskin, and Goldilocks meets the Three Elephants. Nothing is quite the same and you remember it.

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School Days Series

Click, Clack, Moo

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• The Historic Theater

When his granddaughter Jenny comes for a visit, Farmer Brown declares the farm a tech-free zone. He takes her laptop in the cold barn with the shivering cows who use her computer to type messages requesting blankets.

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School Days Series

Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra Performs “Wild Symphony”

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

• The Historic Theater

Join the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra for a musical adventure like no other with Dan Brown's Wild Symphony! A whimsical and imaginative journey through the animal kingdom where students will expeirence how music can bring stories, and animals, to life.

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School Days Series

The Pout-Pout Fish

Friday, May 29, 2026

• The Historic Theater

Turn the poutiest of frowns upside down in this musical featuring whimsical puppets and live performers in a sweeping oceanic adventure. When Mr. Fish sets out on a quest to find Miss Clam’s missing pearl, he discovers there is more to him than his permanently plastered pout.

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A Conversation with Dr. Temple Grandin

Friday, June 12, 2026

• The Historic Theater

An animal scientist and autism self-advocate, Dr. Temple Grandin is a pioneer in improving the welfare of farm animals and speaking on neurodiversity through her unique perspective as a visual thinker on the autism spectrum.

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