Review: GREASE at Seacoast Repertory Theatre
What did our critic think of GREASE at Seacoast Repertory Theatre?…
Peterborough Players
55 Hadley RoadPeterborough, NH 03458
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
30 total · showing 1–10
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
• Following her critically acclaimed performance in Bizet’s Carmen (2024), mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina returns to the Met to headline Bartlett Sher’s madcap production of Rossini’s effervescent comedy as the feisty heroine Rosina. • The cast also includes high-flying tenor...
Salome
• Headlining the new production is soprano Elza van den Heever as the unhinged heroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his...
Le Nozze Di Figaro
• Leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s period comedy, bass baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, with soprano Federica Lombardi...
Nye
Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s (Michael Sheen) deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill. Written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small Island)...
Fidelio
• Soprano Lise Davidsen returns to headline Beethoven’s only opera as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny. Tenor David Butt Philip is the political prisoner Florestan, sharing the stage with bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the...
Prima Facie
Jodie Comer’s ( Killing Eve ) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross...
Aida
• Soprano Angel Blue, known for her celebrated turns in the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (2020), Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021), and Puccini’s La Rondine (2024), makes her Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s...
Tosca
• Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances where she was praised for her “towering” (Financial Times) and “nearly supernatural” (The New York Times) turns in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos, Norwegian soprano...
The Motive and the Cue
Sam Mendes ( The Lehman Trilogy ) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet...
Vanya
Andrew Scott ( Fleabag ) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ ( The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya . Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation, which explores...
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'A Splash of Improv' Players Ring (8/14-8/15) |
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Harvest and Rust Claremont Opera House (10/17-10/17) |
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Doctor Dolittle The Park Theatre (8/30-8/30) |
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ThunderBeard Claremont Opera House (11/07-11/07) |
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O.A.R. Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion (9/13-9/13) |
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Mamma Mania Claremont Opera House (11/21-11/21) |
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THE BRIT PACK – British Invasion and More • Sat, Aug 29, 7:30pm The Park Theatre (8/29-8/29) |
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That Motown Band The Park Theatre (8/15-8/15) |
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Shear Madness The Barnstormers Theatre (8/20-8/29) |
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Comedian Bob Marley Claremont Opera House (9/18-9/18) |