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The Music Hall Lounge

131 Congress Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801

Review: GODSPELL at Break A Leg Legally

Review: GODSPELL at Break A Leg Legally

by Dan Marois · June 22, 2026

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

Review: MEAN GIRLS at Seacoast Repertory Theatre

by Dan Marois · June 15, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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/…

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Literary in the Lounge: Mona Awad with We Love You, Bunny

Sep 12

New York Times bestselling author Mona Awad visits The Music Hall Lounge with the paperback of her novel We Love You, Bunny, a prequel and sequel to her cult classic Bunny. The evening includes an author discussion moderated by New York Times bestselling author Laura Zigman...

Catherine Newman with Wreck

Sep 2

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Newman visits The Music Hall Lounge with the paperback of her newest novel, Wreck, a Good Morning America book club pick. The touching and hilarious book follows Rocky, an anxious and witty mother living in Western Massachusetts, who...

Literary in the Lounge: Caitlin Shetterly & Scott Simon

Aug 19

Bestselling author Caitlin Shetterly and Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday and Up First, appear in conversation about their new books: The Gulf of Lions (Shetterly) and Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known (Simon). Shetterly's novel follows a mother...

Literary in the Lounge: Chris Bohjalian with The Amateur

Aug 2

Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-six books, visits The Music Hall Lounge to discuss his new novel The Amateur. The novel recounts the story of Mira Winston, a young golf prodigy whose stray ball kills a caddy at a country club, setting off a chain...

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Skynyrd's Hatchet in New Hampshire Skynyrd's Hatchet
Claremont Opera House (10/03-10/03)
Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue - Ages 18+ in New Hampshire Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue - Ages 18+
The Music Hall-NH (10/08-10/08)
Harvest and Rust in New Hampshire Harvest and Rust
Claremont Opera House (10/17-10/17)
Johnny Folsom 4 in New Hampshire Johnny Folsom 4
Claremont Opera House (11/14-11/14)
Looking Glass Land - The Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice in New Hampshire Looking Glass Land - The Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice
The Community Players of Concord - Children's Theatre Project (10/16-10/17)
The Third Man in New Hampshire The Third Man
The Park Theatre (9/25-9/25)
ThunderBeard in New Hampshire ThunderBeard
Claremont Opera House (11/07-11/07)
THE RUSSIAN ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (1966) On the BIG screen. Fri Oct 2, 6:30pm in New Hampshire THE RUSSIAN ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING (1966) On the BIG screen. Fri Oct 2, 6:30pm
The Park Theatre (10/02-10/02)
Tell Me Lies in New Hampshire Tell Me Lies
Claremont Opera House (10/10-10/10)
GOLDFISH in New Hampshire GOLDFISH
Bridewell Theatre (11/03-11/07)