Events

Shakespeare’s Othello

Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear, who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner...

Monday, November 4, 2013 - 9:30am

Aladdin and Other Echanting Tales

Genii, princesses and wizards abound in the marvelous tales of Scheherazade, the storyteller heroine of Aladdin and Other Enchanting Tales. She tells her tales to heal her Sultan and save his kingdom...

Monday, November 18, 2013 - 10:00am

Bill Blagg’s Science of Magic

For centuries magicians have used scientific principles to make people levitate in mid-air and vanish in the blink of an eye. Illusionist Bill Blagg’s one-of-a-kind educational experience, Science of...

Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 10:00am - 12:00pm

Shake It Up! Improvised Shakespeare Co.

Based on one audience suggestion (a title for a play that has yet to be written) The Improvised Shakespeare Co. creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style. Each of the players has brushed...

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 10:00am

My Heart in a Suitcase

Anne Lehmann and her family no longer feel safe in their Berlin home. Life is deteriorating quickly for the Lehmanns and all Jews in Germany; in order to protect their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lehmann...

Monday, March 10, 2014 - 10:00am

Leo Lionni’s Swimmy, Frederick, & Inch by Inch

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia’s latest production is drawn from Leo Lionni’s exquisitely crafted Caldecott Honor books, Swimmy, Inch by Inch and Frederick. Swimmy is a tiny fish who uses ingenuity...

Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 10:00am - 12:00pm

Butterfly! Story of a Life Cycle

This show offers students a microscopic look at the insect world, viewing the life of a butterfly.  Each part of the life cycle is depicted through songs and dances with giant puppets (Mari the...

Monday, March 24, 2014 - 10:00am - 12:00pm

Black Boy

A verbatim adaptation of the classic American autobiographical work, Black Boy dramatizes Richard Wright’s journey from childhood innocence to adulthood in the Jim Crow South. The issues addressed in...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 10:00am

Charlotte’s Web

Theatreworks’ production of Charlotte’s Web is based on E.B. White’s loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte. Wilbur has a problem: how to...

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 10:00am - 12:00pm

Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf

The five members of the Symphony NH Wind Quintet bring Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf  to life with a special and enchanting arrangement. The group’s use of vivid musical characterizations...

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 10:00am

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Have you ever had a really rotten day? Alexander has. He wakes up with gum in his hair, he trips on a skateboard, and then he accidentally drops his sweater in the sink - all before breakfast!...

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 10:00am - 12:00pm

 

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