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CUE ZERO THEATRE COMPANY

19 Keewaydin Drive #4
Salem, NH



Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Rochester Opera House


by Dan Marois - May 11, 2026

Among the heavy hitters of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice catalog, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat doesn’t always carry the same somber weight as Phantom of the Opera or Jesus Christ Superstar. That’s likely because Webber originally penned it at the tender age of 20 as a mode...

Review: THE CHILDREN at The Players' Ring


by Dan Marois - May 10, 2026

What starts as a casual catch-up among old colleagues spirals into something much heavier, darker, and deeply haunting in Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children, now playing at the Players’ Ring in Portsmouth. In the famously intimate confines of the Ring—where the actors are often close enough to breat...

Review: ALTAR BOYZ at Seacoast Repertory Theatre


by Dan Marois - April 29, 2026

At Seacoast Repertory Theatre, the current production of Altar Boyz plays less like a traditional musical and more like a full-on concert experience—loud, fast, and packed with driving beats and body-bending choreography.t did our critic think of ALTAR BOYZ at Seacoast Repertory Theatre?...

Review: THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE at Seacoast Repertory Theatre


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....

Review: DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS at Seacoast Repertory Theatre


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/...

Past Shows

People Like To Be Scared: An Exploration of Fear
Oct 3 – Oct 5, 2025

People Like To Be Scared: An Exploration of Fear is a unique production directed and devised by Dan Pelletier, scheduled for October 3-5, 2025, as...

Amélie
Jun 20 – Jun 22, 2025

Cue Zero Theatre Company presents Amélie, a musical adaptation of the beloved film that follows the whimsical journey of a young woman named Amélie. Directed...

Time of Death
May 2 – May 4, 2025

Time of Death, written by Jonah Knight, is a gripping thriller that makes its East Coast premiere with Cue Zero Theatre Company from May 2-4,...

The Wild Party
The Wild Party
Feb 28 – Mar 2, 2025

A Bold, Unflinching Look at Morality and Desire: Cue Zero Theatre Company to Present Andrew Lippa’s Provocative and Challenging Hit Musical, “The Wild Party”

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Oct 25 – Oct 27, 2024

Cue Zero Theatre Company presents a production that follows struggling writers Jeff and Hunter as they attempt to create a musical for a festival submission...

William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)
William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)
Jun 21 – Jun 23, 2024

Cue Zero Theatre Company brings the laughs with the New Hampshire premier of William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged). This bard-inspired parody piece plays...

Assassins
Assassins
Oct 27 – Oct 29, 2023

Cue Zero Theatre Company presents the dark and fascinating musical Assassins at the Derry Opera House October 27-29. Artistic Director Dan Pelletier cites this show...

Be More Chill
Be More Chill
Jun 23 – Jun 25, 2023

Cue Zero Theatre Company continues their 4th season  with the first of two main stage musicals — 2019 Tony nominee, “Be More Chill.” The fan-favorite musical...

Radium Girls
Radium Girls
Mar 3 – Mar 5, 2023

Opening Cue Zero Theatre Company’s Season 4 is DW Gregory’s Radium Girls directed by Allyson Kinch. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie...

Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening
Oct 28 – Oct 30, 2022

Cue Zero Theatre Company presents the broadway smash hit Spring Awakening at the Derry Opera House October 28-30th.It is Germany, 1891, a world where the...

Heathers the Musical
Heathers the Musical
Oct 22 – Oct 24, 2021

WHATS YOUR DAMAGE? HEATHERS THE MUSICAL ROCKS THE DERRY OPERA HOUSE AND THE INTERNET THIS OCTOBERCue Zero Theatre Company presents Heathers the Musical live at...

The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
Feb 28 – Mar 1, 2020

Cue Zero Theatre Company, NH Magazine’s Best of NH 2019 “Best ‘New’ Theatre”, continues to bring innovative and unique theatre to southern New Hampshire with...

Guerrilla Shakespeare V -Macbeth
Guerrilla Shakespeare V -Macbeth
Oct 15

Macbeth will be the latest installment of the Guerrilla Shakespeare Series. The GSS sees Cue Zero perform staged readings of the Bard's work in unconventional...

Shaken-Speare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shaken-Speare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oct 4 – Oct 13, 2019

Cue Zero presents the most mixed-up version of A Midsummer Night's Dream ever! 9 performers will attempt to perform one of the Bard's greatest comedies,...

The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors
Sep 18

Small cheer and great welcome Cue Zero kicks off season two with Comedy of Errors at The BookeryManchester, NH the award winning Cue Zero Theatre...

Next To Normal
Next To Normal
Aug 16 – Aug 25, 2019

2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Next To Normal. In this rock musical, we get an unflinching look at a suburban family struggling with the effects of...

Proof
Proof
May 3 – May 6, 2019

David Auburn's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof.On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for...

JULIUS CAESAR
JULIUS CAESAR
Apr 16

For Immediate ReleaseMedia Contact: Dan Pelletier / cztheatre@gmail.com/cztheatre.com / E TU BRUTE? CUE ZERO PRESENTS JULIUS CAESAR AT THE SHASKEENManchester, NH - Eat, drink, and...

JULIUS CAESAR
JULIUS CAESAR
Apr 16

For Immediate ReleaseMedia Contact: Dan Pelletier / cztheatre@gmail.com/cztheatre.com / E TU BRUTE? CUE ZERO PRESENTS JULIUS CAESAR AT THE SHASKEENManchester, NH - Eat, drink, and...

JULIUS CAESAR
JULIUS CAESAR
Apr 16

For Immediate ReleaseMedia Contact: Dan Pelletier / cztheatre@gmail.com/cztheatre.com / E TU BRUTE? CUE ZERO PRESENTS JULIUS CAESAR AT THE SHASKEENManchester, NH - Eat, drink, and...

NuSpace
NuSpace
Mar 1 – Mar 3, 2019

The main stage season will open with the world premier of NuSpaceby Marjorie Boyer. This political drama examines a world where a company has developed...

Videos


Count Arthur Strong - And It’s Goodnight From Me! in New Hampshire Count Arthur Strong - And It’s Goodnight From Me!
Portsmouth New Theatre Royal (3/11-3/11)
Sinatra: A Tribute by Patrick Tobin in New Hampshire Sinatra: A Tribute by Patrick Tobin
The Park Theatre (6/05-6/05)
Kanin Wren's Taylor Swift Experience in New Hampshire Kanin Wren's Taylor Swift Experience
Claremont Opera House (8/08-8/08)
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express in New Hampshire Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
The Barnstormers Theatre (8/06-8/15)
Count Arthur Strong - And It’s Goodnight From Me! in New Hampshire Count Arthur Strong - And It’s Goodnight From Me!
Key Theatre (5/12-5/12)
Common Kings in The Secret Garden at The Brook in New Hampshire Common Kings in The Secret Garden at The Brook
The Brook (6/06-6/06)
"Emma" in New Hampshire "Emma"
Players Ring (5/29-6/07)
A League of Their Own in New Hampshire A League of Their Own
The Park Theatre (6/12-6/12)
O.A.R. in New Hampshire O.A.R.
Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion (9/13-9/13)
Drew Baldridge and drone show in The Secret Garden at The Brook in New Hampshire Drew Baldridge and drone show in The Secret Garden at The Brook
The Brook (5/23-5/23)