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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

Twelfth Night
May 15 – May 31, 2026

Dive In Productions presents Twelfth Night at New Hampshire Theatre Project, running May 15–31, 2026. Set on a nostalgic seaside boardwalk, the production reimagines Shakespeare's...

Eureka Day
Eureka Day
Apr 17 – May 2, 2026

The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. In weekly meetings Eureka Day’s five board members...

Real, enough
Real, enough
Mar 20

Dive In Productions is proud to present the third installment of their Dive In-Cubator staged reading series with the new musical Real, enough. With book and...

Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime
Feb 27 – Mar 15, 2026

It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie — a jumble of disparate, fading memories — has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to...

The Shark is Broken
The Shark is Broken
Oct 17 – Nov 2, 2025

The first summer blockbuster movie is being filmed, but no one working on the film would know it. Dive deep into the tumultuous, murky waters...

Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Jun 6 – Jun 15, 2025

Dive In Productions presents William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, at New Hampshire Theatre Project.In the heart of Verona, two young lovers are caught between loyalty...

Ugly Lies the Bone
Ugly Lies the Bone
May 2 – May 18, 2025

A powerful and compelling drama about a wounded war veteran, suffering from PTS, who finally returns home to the small town of Space Coast, Florida,...

Faithless
Faithless
Feb 21 – Mar 9, 2025

A sharp and authentic comedy-drama about an aging atheist named Gus, recovering from cancer, who is forced to deal with two grown stepchildren: a Presbyterian...

New Hampshire Theatre Project Celebrates Evening Lights
New Hampshire Theatre Project Celebrates Evening Lights
Dec 10 – Dec 12, 2024

This special fundraising event invites audiences to step into the perfect holiday party atmosphere - complete with refreshments, live music and performances from some of...

Romeo and Her Sister
Romeo and Her Sister
Jun 7 – Jun 23, 2024

Romeo & Her Sisterby Jillian BlevinsDirected by Courtney St. GelaisJune 7 to June 23One Thursday Only, June 20 - 7:30PMFridays - 7:30pmSaturdays - 4:00pmSundays -...

Collected Stories
Collected Stories
Apr 12 – Apr 28, 2024

Collected StoriesApril 12 to April 28One Thursday Only, April 25- 7:30PMFridays 7:30pm, Saturdays 4:00pm, Sundays 2:30pmThe nature of story itself is a fascinating subject to...

In the Garden of Z
In the Garden of Z
Jan 19 – Feb 4, 2024

In the Garden of Z is the story of one Russian girl's reaction and response to the horrors of the war in Ukraine and how...

It’s A Wonderful Life:  A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry
Nov 25 – Dec 10, 2023

The special holiday production of It’s a Wonderful Life returns to New Hampshire Theatre Project!Special Thursday Performances Nov 30 and Dec 7 at 7:30 pmFridays...

The Flick
The Flick
Nov 3 – Nov 19, 2023

In a rundown movie theater in Massachusetts, three movie theater employees have their own stories to share, as they clean up at the end of...

Dreaming Again
Dreaming Again
Oct 28

In 2012, New Hampshire Humanities commissioned playwright Genevieve Aichele to write a play based on the real life stories of refugees and immigrants in New...

Thirst for Freedom
Thirst for Freedom
Sep 22 – Oct 8, 2023

The story of Ona Judge will inspire and touch your heart. Enslaved by George and Martha Washington, she dares to defy her circumstances by fleeing...

Gen-ERATIONS!
Gen-ERATIONS!
May 5 – May 21, 2023

Gen-erations! is joyful retrospective and celebration of Genevieve Aichele’s past 35 years at New Hampshire Theatre Project, including scenes, scripts and songs that she has...

NHTP’s 7th Annual Storytelling Festival
NHTP’s 7th Annual Storytelling Festival
Apr 15

NHTP’s 7th Annual Storytelling Festival will take place at New Hampshire Theatre Project on Saturday, April 15 at 8 pm and will also be streamed...

NH Theatre Project Presents Dreaming Again
NH Theatre Project Presents Dreaming Again
Mar 24 – Mar 26, 2023

Dreaming Again, adapted by Genevieve Aichele and directed by CJ Lewis, is based on Aichele’s oral interviews with over 40 people who left their homes...

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
Jan 20 – Feb 5, 2023

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for...

A Christmas Carol with Jennifer Munro
A Christmas Carol with Jennifer Munro
Dec 9 – Dec 11, 2022

A Christmas Carol with Jennifer MunroAdapted from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Live at NH Theatre ProjectFri & Sat: December 9 & 10 at 8:00...

A Thousand Doorways – Diane Edgecomb Live at NH Theatre Project
A Thousand Doorways – Diane Edgecomb Live at NH Theatre Project
Nov 18 – Nov 20, 2022

What if telling a story meant risking your life?  Moved by the silencing of the Kurdish language by Turkish laws, Diane Edgecomb embarks on a...

A Thousand Doorways – Diane Edgecomb Livestream
A Thousand Doorways – Diane Edgecomb Livestream
Nov 20

What if telling a story meant risking your life?  Moved by the silencing of the Kurdish language by Turkish laws, Diane Edgecomb embarks on a...

An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls
May 6 – May 22, 2022

The MainStage season will conclude in May with An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley, directed by Genevieve Aichele. A young girl commits suicide and an...

Small Mouth Sounds
Small Mouth Sounds
Mar 18 – Apr 3, 2022

March 18 through April 3 Fridays & Saturdays at 8PM Sunday Matinees 2 PM March 20 and March 27; Saturday Matinee 2 PM March 26...

Women Playing Hamlet
Women Playing Hamlet
Jan 14 – Jan 30, 2022

January has always been a great time for comedy and NHTP continues this tradition with Women Playing Hamlet by William Missouri Downs, directed by Blair...

Not On This Night
Not On This Night
Dec 10 – Jan 9, 2022

Stage Wright Films co-founder, Bill Humphreys is at the helm of the new feature production, Not On This Night, the screen adaptation of the play...

Winter Solstice Story & Song
Winter Solstice Story & Song
Dec 1 – Jan 9, 2022

Celebrate the Holiday Season with Winter Solstice Story & SongFeaturing master storyteller Diane EdgecombAccompanied by Margot Chamberlain & Tom MeganOn Demand December 1, 2021 -...

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Nov 19 – Dec 5, 2021

NHTPs MainStage season will officially begin in November, with a production of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane directed by Samantha Smith. This exquisite adaptation...

NH Theatre Project Presents The Uncertainty Principle
NH Theatre Project Presents The Uncertainty Principle
Oct 22 – Oct 24, 2021

A new docudrama created as part of We Don't Know What This Is Yet, and drawn from interviews with 27 different community members about their...

NHTP Presents Comedy Under the Tent!
NHTP Presents Comedy Under the Tent!
Jul 19 – Aug 2, 2021

Come laugh with us under the tent! Cheer on the performers, new and returning, as they each present their original stand-up comedy! July 12 -...

The Uncertainty Principle
The Uncertainty Principle
Jun 10 – Jun 13, 2021

New Hampshire Theatre Project Presents The Uncertainty PrincipleA new docudrama created as part of We Don't Know What This Is Yetled by Genevieve Aichele, CJ...

New Hampshire Theatre Project Presents SoloStage Encore!
New Hampshire Theatre Project Presents SoloStage Encore!
Mar 26 – Mar 28, 2021

Since October 2020 NH Theatre Project has supported Gemma Soldati, Peter Josephson and Stephanie Lazenby to create their own one-person plays for the stage. For...

A Tempest Prayer
A Tempest Prayer
Mar 19 – Mar 21, 2021

TICKETS GO ON SALE NOVEMBER 1ST!Virtual Tickets for $20 | Individual In-person Tickets for $30Peter Josephsons A Tempest Prayer is a solo show using the...

Where Do I Begin?
Where Do I Begin?
Jan 22 – Jan 24, 2021

TICKETS GO ON SALE NOVEMBER 1ST!Virtual Tickets for $20 | Individual In-person Tickets $30.Writer and comedian Stephanie Lazenby will be bringing elements of her memoir...

The Adventures of Sleepyhead
The Adventures of Sleepyhead
Nov 27 – Nov 29, 2020

Sleepyhead is the dreamer of dreams. The walking-talking nap. A snoozer and a muser. Children and adults alike will delight in this adventure to the...

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