Talks

The Big Calm with Ankati Day

Sunday, June 11, 2023

• The Music Hall Lounge

Exhale... it's time for The Big Calm! That moment to slow down, breathe, calm your nerves, and slow those racing thoughts.

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Dance in the Historic Theater

Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Sunday, June 18, 2023

• The Historic Theater

Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer, Camille A. Brown brings her nationally acclaimed dance troupe to Portsmouth for an outstanding performance.

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Writers on a New England Stage

Geraldine Brooks

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

• The Historic Theater

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice.

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Talks

CreativeMornings PKX

March 31 – June 23, 2023

• The Music Hall Lounge

Join us as CreativeMornings PKX returns in person! It's the only creative breakfast lecture series that you'll need on a Friday morning!

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Fill the Hall

Fill the Hall 2023

Saturday, June 24, 2023

• The Historic Theater

Our annual collaboration with Gather to fill every seat in the Historic Theater with bags of food for the Meals 4 Kids program, which feeds 700 seacoast children each week throughout the summer.

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Talks

Finding Your Purpose with Patrick Dempsey

Sunday, June 25, 2023

• The Historic Theater

Join actor and Maine native Patrick Dempsey for an intimate conversation about dreams, courage, loss, resilience, and finding your flow.

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Lit. at The Lounge

Dr. Luana Marques

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

• The Music Hall Lounge

Turn your anxiety into strength with Harvard-based psychotherapist Dr. Luana Marques’ 3-step method to living boldly—her clinically-proven approach that has inspired patients from CEOs to at-risk teens.

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Writers on a New England Stage

Colson Whitehead

Thursday, July 20, 2023

• The Historic Theater

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.

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School Days Series

Mister C Live - World in Motion (Newton's Laws)

Thursday, October 5, 2023

• The Historic Theater

Are you ready for some hair-raising science, toe-tapping music and mind-blowing media? Join Mister C for an amazing day of learning in the lab as he explores all things air!

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School Days Series

The Lightning Thief - TYA Edition

Monday, October 23, 2023

• The Historic Theater

When teenager Percy Jackson discovers he's a demigod, he and his friends embark on an epic journey to find Zeus' missing lightning bolt and prevent a war among the gods.

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School Days Series

Giraffes Can't Dance - The Musical

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

• The Historic Theater

All the animals in the jungle know their own special dance, but Gerald the Giraffe can't seem to move without a clumsy step. 

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School Days Series

The Magic School Bus - Lost in the Solar System

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

• The Historic Theater

When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip!

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School Days Series

Frindle

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

• The Historic Theater

Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. When he ends up in Mrs. Granger’s language arts class, he has his best idea ever. He decides to create his own word…FRINDLE!

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School Days Series

Cat Kid Comic Club - The Musical

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

• The Historic Theater

Cat Kid and Molly Pollywog have started an epic club to teach 21 rambunctious baby frogs how to make their own comics!

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