Derry Opera House
29 W BroadwayDerry, NH 03038
Upcoming Shows
Review: GREASE at Seacoast Repertory Theatre
What did our critic think of GREASE at Seacoast Repertory Theatre?…
Review: CINDERELLA at Prescott Park
An evening in Prescott Park fits perfectly like the glass slipper in 'Cinderella.'…
Review: GODSPELL at Break A Leg Legally
It is only fitting, then, that Break a Leg Legally should deliver a production that feels so profoundly inclusive, energetic, and thoroughly joyful in The Strand theater in Dover.…
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Seacoast Repertory Theatre
Based on Tina Fey's (of Saturday Night Live fame) wildly popular 2004 film, Mean Girls wisely embraces what made the original such a phenomenon while bringing enough energy and personality to succeed on stage. Like many movie adaptations, however, it occasionally struggles to escape comparisons to t…
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at Rochester Opera House
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
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
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
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
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
Macbeth
THE WORLDS FOREMOST CURSED PLAY EMBRACES ITS DARK ROOTS WITH CUE ZERO THEATRE COMPANYS MACBETHCue Zero Theatre Company is thrilled to announce their June production of William Shakespeares Macbeth. CZT brings a unique twist on this haunted horror with performances June 17-19th...
Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson
theatre KAPOW reaches through time and up to the stars with its next production. Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson will play at the Derry Opera House from April 26 through May 4, 2019.When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isnt allowed...
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment—The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
"I'm about to tell you a story. A fantastic and amazing story! A story all the more remarkable because every word of it is true." So says Louis de Rougemont. His brave and amazing adventures left nineteenth-century England spellbound. Prepare to be swept away in a high seas...
Translations by Brian Friel
It is 1833, and change is coming to rural County Donegal, Ireland. A tight-knit group of neighbors gathers regularly at an Irish-language hedge school to study classics of Greek and Latin literature. A prodigal son of their own returns from Dublin with two British army engineers...
Something Wonderful I Missed: The Musicals of 1973
Sunday, May 26, 4 p.m. entitled Something Wonderful I Missed: The Musicals of 1973 The concert May 26th is entitled Something Wonderful I Missed: The Musicals of 1963, which will feature mainly lesser-known selections from the 1973 musical theater season, forty years ago...
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Probing deep into the disintegration of the American Dream, Sam Shepard’s Buried Child became an instant classic and the first Off-Off Broadway play to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. When Vince brings his girlfriend Shelly home to meet his family, it’s a curious homecoming...
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Doctor Dolittle The Park Theatre (8/30-8/30) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! Key Theatre (5/12-5/12) |
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Tell Me Lies Claremont Opera House (10/10-10/10) |
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The Dreamers Theatre Troupe Presents Hamlet The Park Theatre (8/21-8/23) |
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Harvest and Rust Claremont Opera House (10/17-10/17) |
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Blizzard of Ozz Claremont Opera House (9/12-9/12) |
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Mamma Mania Claremont Opera House (11/21-11/21) |
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GOLDFISH Bridewell Theatre (11/03-11/07) |
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‘A Slice of Crazy Pie’ Players Ring (8/28-8/29) |
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O.A.R. Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion (9/13-9/13) |