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| | Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Adapted by Jill Pinard
December 1-17
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 75-80 minutes including intermission.
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| | Hatbox Performance Lab
Produced by Hatbox Theatre.
Hatbox Theatre's educational series for theatre artists and the public looking to explore the theatrical arts and expand their capabilities. Each month we hold a two-hour (plus!) workshop on different topics including: lighting, sound, projections, costumes, design, acting, improv, directing, auditioning, publicity and more!
Free to Hatbox and CPC members. $10/adults; $7 seniors/students.
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| | Queen City Improv
Select Fridays
Queen City Improv Improv comes to The Hatbox Theatre for a night of Improv Comedy for the whole family! Parents: bring your kids! Kids: bring your parents. It's a fast-paced evening filled with improv and music all based on the suggestions of you...the audience. Join them for a night of hilarity... and then take all the credit!
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| | Discovering Magic
with Andrew Pinard
Monthly: Select Wednesdays
ABOUT DISCOVERING MAGIC
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 Tenth Season of monthly performances!
Wednesdays @ 7:30pm.
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| | The House of Blue Leaves
by John Guare
January 26-February 11
"Set in Sunnyside, Queens, New York City, New York, in 1965, on the day Pope Paul VI visited, this black comedy focuses on Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper who dreams of making it big in Hollywood as a songwriter. Artie wants to take his girlfriend Bunny with him to Hollywood. His wife Bananas is a schizophrenic and destined for the institution that provides the play's title. Their son Ronnie, a GI scheduled for deployment to Vietnam, has gone AWOL. Artie's friend Hollywood producer Billy Einhorn, Billy's movie star ""protege"" Corrina, and three nuns are eager to see the pope end up in Artie's apartment.
The House of Blue Leaves by American playwright John Guare premiered Off-Broadway in 1971, and was revived in 1986, both Off-Broadway and on Broadway, and was again revived on Broadway in 2011. The play won the Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play and the Obie Award for Best American Play in 1971. The play is set in 1965, when Pope Paul VI visited New York City.
NOTE: This production contains adults themes including mental illness, desire, infidelity, violence, and period attitudes to various cultures. Also, characters breaking the fourth wall to address the audience.
Duration is approximately 120 minutes including one intermission.
Produced by Hatbox Theatre.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | 'night, Mother
by Marsha Norman
February 16 - 25
‘night, Mother, Marsha Norman’s Tony Award-winning drama, depicts the unrelenting emotional exchange between Thelma and her daughter, Jessie, after Jessie announces that she plans to commit suicide. As Jessie sets her affairs in order, Thelma tries unsuccessfully to stop Jessie’s plan from hurtling toward its conclusion. Like most people who have never experienced suicidal depression, Thelma cannot comprehend how her daughter can desire death when her own instincts drive her to fight for survival.
NOTE: This production contains adult themes, language, and suicide. Recommended for mature audiences.
Duration is approximately 90 minutes plus no intermission.
Produced by Lend Me A Theater.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Thom Pain (based on nothing)
by Will Eno
March 8 - 17
2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama.
It is not just a play, but a conversation.
Or an exercise in futility.
It's 70 minutes of theatre, therapy, existentialist philosophy, and stand-up comedy.
You may even walk away a changed person.
Or disappointed.
Or both.
Will Eno is an Edward Albee protégé and has been called the Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation. We’re not sure if that is meant as a compliment or a criticism. Either way it is fairly accurate.
The New York Times said, “It’s one of those treasured nights in the theatre—treasured nights anywhere, for that matter—that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. Also in stitches, here and there.”
Directed by David Kaye with Billy Butler as Thom Pain.
NOTE: This production contains swearing and deep existential dives that most adults might not even be able to handle.
Duration is approximately 70 minutes.
Produced by Billy Butler.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer's Music
by Tom Lehrer
compiled by Andrew Pinard
March 22 - 31
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, The Masochism Tango, Smut, The Vatican Rag, and My Home Town are just a few of the songs Tom Lehrer wrote and performed in recordings and live concerts to great acclaim.
Lehrer has strong connections to New England - he lived in Cambridge for many years and went to summer camp in Maine (Camp Androscoggin) along with another ne'er do well, Stephen Sondheim. There he was both a camper and a counselor.
He also went to Harvard, taught at MIT, and later at the University of California, Santa Cruz (where he lives now mostly having abandoned the East Coast).
None of this is remotely as interesting as the fact that he wrote and performed ""Silent E"" for the children's television program The Electric Company which starred (in part) Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman.
In 1980, his songs and words were collected by Cameron Mackintosh in the form of a review show. No one knows what happened to Mackintosh (he was presumable eaten by cats). Other than using the words and songs of Tom Lehrer, this musical review (with words and songs) bears absolutely no similarities with the words and songs pulled together by Mackintosh (except, perhaps, some of the words and songs).
If this is your first introduction to the music of Tom Lehrer, we offer you our most profound apologies. Perhaps it might inspire you to go explore Tom Lehrer on your own. It is reported that many of his performances are available on some online viewing platform.
Tom Lehrer has granted permission for us to perform these pieces, but takes no responsibility for the quality or composition. "You bought the ticket; you own it."
NOTE: This production contains adult themes, satire, and nostalgia for what some of the older folks might refer to as "the good old days". And singing. Not so much dancing though.
Duration is approximately 90 minutes plus an obligatory intermission to encourage you to buy concessions.
Produced by Hatbox Theatre.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | A Time to Gather Stones
by George Kelly
April 5 - 21
You are summoned to witness the trial of Joseph Le page, the accused killer of Josie Langmaid, who was assaulted, raped, murdered, and dismembered, on November 25, 1875, as she was walking to school on Academy Road, in Pembroke, New Hampshire. This heinous crime places Le Page, a Canadian itinerant woodcutter, in an American courtroom. The Concord Monitor-Patriot, as well as newspapers up and down the East Coast have been offering conflicting opinions as to Le Page's guilt or innocence. The murder and the impending trial have produced a frenzy of emotions that threaten to throw the populace into a mob intent on revenge. Against this backdrop, Attorneys Norris for the Defense, and Swenson for the Prosecution, duel inside the courtroom. Everyone in the community has been affected by this grisly murder, as Blind Justice weighs Le Page's guilt or innocence and threatens to fracture the community. A Time to Gather Stones, is an historical fictional account of the actual event. Some descriptive language describing the murder may not be suitable for children.
NOTE: This production contains graphic language regarding the violence associated with a murder.
Duration is approximately 120 minutes.
Produced by Granite Playwrights.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | The 7-Day Plays
by local playwrights
April 27 - ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY
The 7-Day Plays is an evening of five short plays written, rehearsed and performed within just one week! Inspired by the Play in a Day festival, this expanded form brings theatrical artists together to both create and develop original 20-25 minute plays, to be performed in front of a live audience on the seventh day! The 7-Day Plays are intended as an entertaining and productive way to both develop and celebrate local stage talent!
NOTE: This production may contain adult themes and language and depictions of substance use.
Duration is approximately 115 minutes plus one intermission.
Produced by Versicolor Souls.
ONE NIGHT ONLY. Saturday, April 27 @ 7:30pm.
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| | Trail to Oregon!
by Jeff Blim, Matt Lang, and Nick Lang.
May 3 - 12
The Trail to Oregon! is an absurdist Starkid musical based on the beloved video game Oregon Trail. The family will face the difficult forces of nature, other people, and what it means to really be a family. Come take part in this hilarious production, and with so many decisions to be made by the audience, no two shows will be the same. Definitely not one to be missed!
NOTE: This production contains irreverrent adult themes and language.
Duration is approximately 95 minutes.
Produced by Actors Coop Theatre.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Brainstorm
by Ned Glasier, Emily Lim, and Company Three.
May 17 - 19
Originally conceived and created with cognitive neuroscientists and drawing upon the life experiences of the cast of high school students, Brainstorm is a thrilling exploration of the most frustrating, chaotic and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us. The show is a unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers' brains work, and why they're designed by evolution to be the way they are.
Join a talented group of young theatre makers from all over the globe, who proudly represent the theatre program at New Hampton School, for an experience that will make you use your brain (and better understand how it works!)
NOTE: This production is based on student experiences so there is potential for content that would be inappropriate for younger audience members. Recommended PG-13.
Duration is approximately 90 minutes plus one intermission.
Produced by New Hampton School.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Into The Breeches!
by George Brant
May 24 - June 9
Into the Breeches by George Brant, is a surprisingly modern and moving comedy about the singular way art and community reveal our boldest selves even in the darkest times.
It’s WWII and the Oberon Play House’s director and leading men are off at war with the Axis. Determined to press on, the director's wife sets out to produce an all-female version of Shakespeare's Henriad, assembling an increasingly unexpected team united in desire, if not actual theatre experience. Together they deliver a delightful celebration of collaboration and persistence when the show must go on!
NOTE: This production refers to war, yet is family friendly.
Duration is approximately 120 minutes including one intermission.
Produced by Lend Me A Theater.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Alice and the Looking Glass
by Greg Parker
June 14 - 30
A show for all ages, Alice and the Looking Glass explores what happens when an adult Alice returns to Wonderland, only to find that things are not as she left them. She must navigate old and new friends as she tries to make her way back home.
NOTE: This production is family friendly.
Duration is approximately 90 minutes plus one intermission.
Produced by Parker Theatricals.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Heathers: The Musical
by Kevin Murphy & Laurence O’Keefe
July 5 - 14
Based on the classic 1989 film, Heathers the Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful, ruthless, shoulder-padded clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. Before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerous new kid J.D. When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicized ass ... but J.D. plans to put Heather in her place - six feet under.
NOTE: This production contains adult themes and language, simulated sexual encounters, simulated gun violence, and attempted suicide.
Duration is approximately 120 minutes plus one intermission.
Produced by Ro Gavin Collaborative Theatre.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Opening Night Mutiny! A Fiasco in Two Acts
by Michael Freitag and Alex Bickerstaff
July 19 - 28
"What can you say about a play which not only goes off the rails- but was designed from its very conception to go off the rails, then stay off the rails, and then cast itself into the abyss beside the rails with the alacrity and ponderous grace of a Steinway concert grand piano flung by a trebuchet? Apparently quite a bit." -Caught in the Act
Welcome to the South Shore Playhouse! Where our "Delectable Cast of Crazies" are trying to premiere their new season despite some small, tiny, miniscule setbacks like:
- Firing the lead in the middle of dress rehearsal,
- Replacing them with an understudy who's been studying the wrong script,
- Rewriting that script behind the playwright's back, and
- Being caught in the act hours before the show opens.
This series of escalating hi-jinks results in the outraged author pulling the rights to the show... AS the curtain rises. What follows next is the most daring attempt at "The show must go on" in theatrical history, as the group tries to fall back on a half-written script with the same name. Just a couple problems: nobody's rehearsed it, it takes place on Mars, and the idiot who wrote it is sitting in the front row...
"Break legs! ALL OF THEM."
NOTE: This production contains adult language.
Duration is approximately 90 minutes plus one intermission.
Produced by Outcast Productions.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical
by Lindsey Rosin, Jordan Ross, Roger Kumble
August 2 - 11
Cruel Intentions is a new musical based on the original movie which was based on the famous French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. While the 1999 film was set in at the end of the '90s it has many of the same aspects of the original subject material. It brings us to the summer months before school is back in session and thrusts us into the world of wealthy manipulative Manhattan socialites. What makes it unique is that they are high schoolers that are playing games with their fellow classmates. The show has many themes that play into the vision. Love. Destruction. Revenge. Regret and above all consequences. The rule to this game between the pair of charmingly diabolical step siblings is to never fall in love.
NOTE: This production contains adult language, sexual themes, undertones of charged sensuality, and brief partial nudity in one scene.
Duration is approximately 90 minutes plus one intermission.
Produced by Actors Coop Theatre (ACT).
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | The Last Gumshoe
by Aaron Sommers
August 16 - 18
The Last Gumshoe tells the story of detective Max Sherman as he investigates the death of the son of a wealthy industrialist. When Sherman arrives at the scene, he’s greeted by evidence that leads him on the trail of an unlikely suspect—and one that might place his entire career in jeopardy.
In this fast-paced whodunnit, a brilliant detective steps into a shadowy world on the hunt for answers, sacrificing ethics for the sake of justice. But will it be the last line he ever crosses? The Last Gumshoe offers a fresh take on a Sherlockian tale of intrigue and betrayal.
NOTE: This production contains adult themes and language, and depictions of drug use.
Duration is approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.
Produced by Custard Street Productions.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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| | Letters to my Daughter
by Lowell Williams and Anthony Payton
August 23 - 25
Anthony Payton grew up in the New York projects. When he was fourteen, he sold a “fiver” and spent the afternoon eating candy and playing video games. It wasn’t many years before he found himself in New Hampshire. Just as he was arrested he discovered he was going to be a father. He would have to find a way to survive prison and his daughter would be that lifeline.
NOTE: This production contains adult themes and language, depictions of substance sales and use, and depictions of prison life.
Duration is approximately 90 minutes plus one intermission.
Produced by Perseverance Productions.
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm; Sundays @ 2pm.
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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.
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 twenty 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. Members excepted.
If you have any questions when purchasing tickets through our website, please email boxoffice@hatboxnh.com. Thank you!
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