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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

REAL GHOST STORIES
Oct 12

REAL GHOST STORIES returns to the Newport Opera House, featuring Adam Berry, host and executive producer of the Travel Channel's Kindred Spirits. The show will...

PETER PAN
PETER PAN
Apr 12 – Apr 14, 2019

Peter Pan tells the classic J.M. Barrie tale of a young boy who refuses to grow up. On a quest to find stories with which...

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