by Dan Marois - April 14, 2026
There is something immediately disarming about “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” It doesn’t arrive with spectacle or grand stakes; there are no sweeping romances or life-or-death consequences. Instead, it gives you a handful of awkward kids, a gymnasium, and a spelling competition....
by Dan Marois - March 15, 2026
There’s one thing that the Seacoast Repertory Theatre knows how to do very well. It’s transforming their intimate, brick-walled space in Portsmouth into a world that feels ten times its actual size. Their current production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels—the 2005 musical based on the Steve Martin/...
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JOSA (Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon) is one of New England’s premier performing jazz series. Opera North is pleased to welcome them back to Blow-Me-Down...
Steven Sondheim’s wildly popular musical invites you to escape into a fantastical fairytale adventure where wishes come true, but not free. Meet Jack and his cow,...
A passionate story of jealousy, vengeance and sacrifice, Rigoletto is one of Verdi’s most popular operas, featuring some of opera's most beloved and recognizable music, “La donna è mobile,”...
The Can-Can! Moulin Rouge! Spoofing both mythology and the foibles of man. Offenbach’s smash-hit operetta is this summer’s hottest party in hell. Eurydice tired of bickering with...
Built on a story spun on a Maine summer in simpler times, Opera North’s production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel captures the longing of carnival barker Billy...
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