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| | Wonders
by Gary Locke
October 29-November 7
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Produced by Phylloxera Productions.
Welcome to the Finger & Wood Recovery and Rehabilitation Clinic, dedicated to serving the physical, spiritual, and mental health of those unfortunate individuals who have lost their super powers. The facility is on high alert. There is a highly reliable threat leveled against the clinic, reducing the staff to a minimum of four highly trained professionals. It is likely that the threat is aimed at one of the residents; Nemi, formerly the human avatar of Nemesis, the God of Vengeance and Retribution; The Agent, who used his invisibility powers to steal for the highest bidder; or the mysterious new client due to arrive at any moment. Tension is high, nerves are on edge, and the food just isn’t as good as usual.
Directed by Gary Locke.
Duration: 100 minutes, 1 intermission.
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| | Discovering Magic
with Andrew Pinard
Monthly: Select Wednesdays
This “mind-numbing, jaw-dropping, eye-opening” experience takes audiences on a guided tour of the impossible and the absurd. Using only the most ordinary of objects, accomplished actor, conjuror, puppeteer, storyteller, and award-winning performer Pinard brings the ordinary to life with the most surprising results.
The only show of its kind in the New England, audiences have traveled from throughout New England and beyond to experience sleight of hand, con games, psychology, history, science, comedy, political spin, and more through the eyes of a “perceptual engineer” on his quest to explore distortion and guile. Audiences can expect a truly unique experience and insight into how remarkable human perception and interpretation can be.
In its 8th Season of monthly performances!
Wednesday @ 7:30pm.
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| | 9/12
by Walter Freeman
November 12-21
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Produced by New World Theatre.
Directed by Matthew Parent.
On the day after the World Trade Center attacks, a conflicted Boston couple proceed with their
plan to host a birthday party for their two-year-old daughter, but the fragile veneer of normalcy is
shattered as the enormity of the tragedy awakens the guests to their own helplessness, anger, internal resentments, and shocking beliefs.
This play contains adult language, adult situations and simulated violence.
Duration: 100 minutes, 1 intermission.
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| | Queen City Improv
Monthly: Select Thursdays & Special Events
Queen City Improv is Manchester's finest improv troupe, and they're bringing their act to the Capital City! Join QCI as they perform a night of goofs, gaffes, and laughs through a never before seen show-every night! Improvisational theater is made up on the spot, which means the games are planned but the scenes stories are not! What will they come up with next? Join us to find out!
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| | Comedy Out of the 'Box
Monthly: Select Thursdays & Special Events
Tiny Hands Productions
Tiny Hands Productions presents the ongoing comedy series “Comedy Out of the 'Box” at The Hatbox. Each month, talented comedians from around the Northeast come to the Capital City to make you think and make you laugh. Hosted by New Hampshire native Chad Blodgett (Portland Maine Comedy Festival, Vermont Snowplow Comedy champion 2018).
Come see them all perform at the Hatbox now, so you can tell your friends you saw them before they were on Netflix.
Ages 18+. BYOB/W. 7:30pm.
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| | Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Adapted by Jill Pinard
December 3-12
Produced by Hatbox Theatre.
In this original adaption of the holiday classic, Hatbox Theatre focuses on how the dream-like qualities of the ghost story aspect of Dickens’ work can bring about redemption. Is it “an undigested bit of beef” – a line in the original story – that leads Scrooge to have bad dreams or is he really being visited by ghosts intent on helping him redeem himself. Audience members, too, will wonder if they are dreaming when they are immersed in sound, lights and projections that bring out these eerier aspects of Scrooge’s fateful night.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Approximate run time is 90 minutes including intermission.
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| | Scene Changes
by Donald Tongue
January 7-23
Produced by New World Theatre.
"It's a Broadway traveling show, a theatrical purgatory, and the only reason any of us are here is because we failed to land a role in a production without wheels!"
So explains Samantha Wheelwright, ex-Brit, star of stage and film, but whose faltering career has landed her in the role of Mrs. Cratchit in a traveling production of A Christmas Carol. Her co-star playing Bob Cratchit has taken ill and is in hospital in Burlington, VT. When the show arrives in Concord NH the producer is forced to hire a young local actor. Enter Matthew Simmons, whose presence creates an unlikely pairing that immediately erupts into a colossal clash of wills as star-struck youthful enthusiasm slams headlong into mid-life cynical realism -- and the scene changes.
This play contains adult language.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Saturdays & Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Mary & Me
by Irene Kelleher
January 28-February 13
Produced by Glass Dove Productions.
Ireland 1986. Fifteen-year-old Hannah Brennan lives in a claustrophobic small town. Sure, she has friends, but no one who understands her, no one she can confide in who will listen to her. And she is going to need a lot of understanding. After touring Ireland, appearing in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in the Brighton Fringe in 2017 with playwright and actor Irene Kelleher as Hannah, Mary and Me began its United States premier tour in New Hampshire in 2020. Directed by Peter Josephson and starring producer and actor Emily Karel as Hannah, this seventy-five-minute one woman show takes its audience on a journey of laughter, determination, love, and heartbreak.
NOTE: PG-13. Contains mature themes and adult language.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Saturdays & Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Lifespan of a Fact
by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell
February 18 - March 6
Produced by Lend Me a Theater.
The Lifespan of a Fact is a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth. Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, but when detail discrepancies emerge, the two come head to head. • “when the writer and the fact-checker get into a lively debate on the ethics of factual truth vs. the beauty of literary dishonesty, it’s time to really sit up and listen…Their deadly serious but oh-so-funny ethical dispute is brilliantly argued…” —Variety. • “…. moves with the ticking-clock urgency the situation demands, yet finds appropriate moments to breathe and let us ruminate on the personal, professional and moral issues at stake” —Hollywood Reporter.
This play contains adult language and adult situations.
Duration: 90 minutes, 1 intermission.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Saturdays & Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Love Letters
by A.R. Gurney
March 11-20
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Produced by Hatbox Theatre.
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence began in second grade and continued for fifty or more years! The letters trace not only the arc of their friendship in both good times and bad, but are also a glimpse into twentieth century history and changing times from the 1930s to the 1980s. The play traces a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences.
Love Letters was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1990.
A.R. Gurney and Holland Taylor, long-time friends, did the very first performance in 1988 at The New York Public Library. It then went to Off-Broadway and then Broadway, and has become a constant in regional professional theaters. Renowned artists from theater and film have lined up to perform the piece.
It's a thrilling evening for audience members, very funny, sad in places, and enlightening.
CAST
Andrew: Erik Hodges
Melissa: Kathryn Hodges
LOVE LETTERS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
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| | Places You Go
by William Ivers
March 25 - April 10
Presented by New World Theatre.
In the spring of her senior year. Maddy Weare, a promising young musician destined for Juilliard, is in the hospital having been in a car accident, escaping with only minor injuries. As she sleeps in her hospital bed, her divorced parents, Rick and Deb Weare, enter and immediately begin playing the blame game while bullying the young intern, Dr. Hughes, as he attempts to care for Maddy the best way he knows how. Tensions escalate after Maddy wakes and reveals several dark truths that cause the family to spiral into turmoil, showing what people are willing to do to protect those they love and what destruction can occur in the process.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Duration: 100 minutes, 1 intermission.
This play contains adult language.
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| | Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier
Music by A. J. Holmes; Lyrics by Kaley McMahon; Book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Eric Kahn Gale
April 15 - May 1
Presented by Actors Cooperative Theatre.
Hold on to your flying carpet, because this musical parody retells the classic tale of Aladdin, but from the villain's point of view! Yes, just like Wicked! Long ago in a Magic Kingdom, one misinterpreted Royal Vizier will take on the difficult task of saving his city from its bumbling sultan, an invading prince, and the most notorious thief to ever live! With the help of the Kingdom's free-spirited, teenage Princess, the Vizier must find a magical lamp containing a hilarious wish-granting Djinn and defeat the city's most-wanted criminal... Aladdin! This musical adventure celebrates and lovingly pokes fun at everyone's favorite series of hand-drawn, animated films. This show contains adult language and themes. Parental guidance is strongly recommended.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Duration: Approximately 2 hours, 1 intermission.
This play contains adult language, adult situations, strobe/flashing lights, fog/haze, sexual situations
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| | Musical Mom
Created by Marisa & Kevin Roberge and Wayland Bunnell
May 6 - 15
Presented by Community Players of Concord, NH.
Musical Mom is a one-woman musical revue performed by Marisa Roberge covering, in song, the time span between when her pregnancy is confirmed through the birth of her son, his childhood and development until he leavesfor college! The songs cover the gamut of becoming and being a mother with songs from both vintage and recent Broadway shows. It's a great Mother's Day weekend show for anyone who is a mother, or has one!
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Duration: Approximately 1.5 hours, 1 intermission.
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| | The Stands
by Jack Neary
May 20 - 22
Friday & Saturday @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Produced by Acting Out Productions
THE STANDS is a new play by Lowell playwright Jack Neary, whose work has been produced nationwide and internationally. His most recent play, TRICK OR TREAT, was presented off-Broadway and starred Emmy Winner Gordon Clapp.
In THE STANDS, five parents and one grandparent of Little Leaguers gather to watch their kids play, once at the beginning of the season, and once at the end. As they reveal themselves to each other, often with many laughs, the audience begins to realize that something sinister is about to occur. What happens in the last ten minutes of the play is devastating.
THE STANDS is funny, gripping, suspenseful--and should prompt some lively conversations after the show.
Duration: Approximately 85 minutes, 1 intermission
This production contains adult language, adult situations and sexual situations.
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| | Holy and Unruly
by David Beardsley
May 27 - June 12
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Produced by New World Theatre
At the height of her powers as monarch, Elizabeth I suffers from disturbing dreams, bewildering visions, and inexplicable moments of panic. A petition for justice from Grace O’Malley, an aristocratic Irish pirate feared from England to Africa, brings the Queen’s emotional crisis to a head, prompting her to revisit choices she made in the name of power—choices no man is asked to make. Against the advice and wishes of her male advisors, the Queen insists on seeing Grace. When two of Europe’s most charismatic women meet, they wrestle with questions still relevant today: What does it take to rule your world? What are the costs?
Duration: 90 minutes, 1 intermission.
HOLY AND UNRULY is presented by special arrangement with NPX: New Play Exchange.
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| | The Bald Soprano
by Eugene Ionesco
June 17 - 26
In The Bald Soprano, a classic of modern theatre, a clock chimes seventeen times for seemingly no reason at all, the doorbell rings but there are no visitors, and the bald soprano never changes her hairstyle. A hilarious and unique satire on modern life by Eugene Ionesco, known as the father of Theatre of the Absurd, this is a theatre experience in which non-sequiturs fly, people talk at cross purposes getting nowhere, and the concept of time is turned on its head. This thought-provoking tour-de-force of linguistic acrobatics about modern communication (or the lack thereof) is sure to delight.
Produced by the Community Players of Concord.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Into the Woods
Music by Stephen Sondheim; Book by James Lapine
July 8 - 17
Presented by RGC Theatre.
As the result of the curse of a once-beautiful witch, a baker and his wife are childless. With only three days to undo the curse, they venture into the forest to find the ingredients that will reverse the spell and restore the witch's beauty: a milk-white cow, hair as yellow as corn, a blood-red cape, and a slipper of gold. During their journey, they meet Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack, each one on a quest to fulfill a wish.
Duration: Approximately 155 minutes with one intermission. This production includes adult situations, reference to sexual situations, and use of fog/haze.
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| | The Gulf
by Audrey Cefaly
July 22 - 31
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Produced by Perseverance Productions, LLC.
Relationships can be difficult to maintain. One day you wake up and discover you have drifted apart. Come see our couple navigate the waters of The Gulf. Winner of the 2015 Sam French OOB Drama Festival.
90 minutes, no intermission
THE GULF is presented by special arrangement with NPX: New Play Exchange.
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| | Bubble Boy
Music & Lyrics by Cinco Paul, Book by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio
August 5 - 14
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Produced by DOT Theater
DOT Theater and The Hatbox Theater are proud to announce a brand new production of Cinco Paul’s musical Bubble Boy.
Based on the film of the same name starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Bubble Boy tells the story of Jimmy Livingston, a Palmdale teen with an immune deficiency that has confined him to life sequestered alone in a plastic bubble with his mother. That is until Chloe Molinski moves to town.
Join Jimmy on his first trip outside of his house: a road trip for love to Niagara Falls, where against all odds (not to mention a cult, biker gang, and a dead cow), he hopes to stop Chloe from marrying the wrong guy.
Duration: 90-100 minutes, 1 intermission.
Suitable for ages 16 and up. This production contains adult language.
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| | The Great Atlantic and Pacific Shakespeare Company
By Alan Lindsay
August 19 - 28
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
Produced by Granite Playwrights
Unfortunately the group’s co-founders and biggest stars, and erstwhile lovers, Biron and Rose, struggle to maintain focus. Biron can’t get past the death of his wife two years earlier – a death he is convinced he caused by having an affair with Rose. He has taken refuge in religion, making regular retreats to a nearby monastery and the dubious ministrations of the enigmatic Brother Rene. Tired of waiting for Biron, Rose has found a retreat of her own on a Caribbean yacht with a smarmy lawyer. Can Rose and Biron work out their differences – or will their bickering mean the end of “The Great A&P”?
Duration: 120 minutes, 1 intermission.
his production contains adult language.
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ASSIGNED SEATING
Adult: $22-25
Student/Senior/Member: $19-22
Senior Member: $16-19
Member discounts are applied on the final checkout screen or at the box office. Higher price for musicals or special programming.
MASK USE WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ALL PATRONS AND PRODUCTION CREW.
For a full list of Safety Mitigations and Screening Questions, please click here.
Reservations
We do take reservations for performances by leaving your name, telephone number, email address and desired performance/number of tickets.
Reserved tickets must be picked up at the box office at least thirty minutes before show time or they will be released and sold to walk-in/wait-list buyers.
Exchanges, Cancellations, Refunds
All sales are final, no exchanges or cancellations.
If you have any questions when purchasing tickets through our website, please email boxoffice@hatboxnh.com. Thank you!
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