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Kittery's critically acclaimed Threshold Stage Company brings Lucas Hnath's Tony Award winning 'A Doll's House, Part 2' to the Star Theatre and brilliantly lays bare the struggle between our right to live our perceived best version of ourselves and the consequences our choices have on those around us and the society at large.

Threshold Stage Company will present 'Misery' by William Goldman (adapted from Stephen King's best-selling novel). The show will be directed by Jack Neary at the Star Theatre at the Kittery Community Center from October 21st - November 6th, 2022.

Is the American Dream really accessible to every strata of our society and does the end always justify the means when striving to achieve it? Kittery's critically acclaimed Threshold Stage Company brings Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet's explosive masterpiece 'American Buffalo' to the Star Theatre and brilliantly examines the ethics and morality of business versus those of family and friendship.

'The Odd Couple' meets 'Breaking Bad' in Threshold Stage Company's Seacoast premiere of Jen Silverman's critically acclaimed comedy 'The Roommate' at the Star Theatre in Kittery.

The Seventh Annual Glenn Wixson Family Holiday Extravaganza will be held at the Press Room, 77 Daniel Street in Portsmouth NH.

Threshold Stage Company Presents 'The Clean House' By Sarah Ruhl, Directed by A. Nora Long at Star Theatre at the Kittery Community Center, April 13th - April 29th, 2017

Threshold Stage Company presents 'Long Day's Journey into Night' by Eugene O'Neill, directed by Peter Josephson at the Star Theatre at the Kittery Community Center, running September 29th - October 15th, 2017.

Threshold Stage Company presents 'Long Day's Journey into Night' by Eugene O'Neill, directed by Peter Josephson at the Star Theatre at the Kittery Community Center, running September 29th - October 15th, 2017.

What if your house's walls really could talk? Would you want your friends and neighbors to hear what your home has to say? Threshold Stage Company's Seacoast Premiere of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and 2012 Tony Award winning play 'Clybourne Park' by Bruce Norris, gives center stage to one such home as it hysterically shares the stories of two couples, separated by fifty years' time, attempting to buy and sell the house while navigating a politically correct mine field of societal inclusion and exclusion along the way.

New Hampshire Theatre Project presents the 2017 Intelligent Theatre Festival, the fifth annual festival of playreadings and discussion.  This year's theme is Matters of Importance as each script focuses on social, political and cultural issues that prompt difficult conversations both personally and in community.

Threshold Stage Company's intimately staged production of Richard Nelson's 'Sorry' at the Star Theatre in Kittery, Maine, (September 9th - September 18th), invites the audience to pull up a chair at the Apple family's dining room table early in the morning on the day of the 2012 Obama/Romney Presidential election; engrossing the viewer in the intricacies of family relationships and the overarching principles of love, tolerance and belonging that somehow manage to survive despite the ever growing complexity and public outrage of our American Culture.

Threshold Stage Company's intimately staged production of Richard Nelson's 'Sorry' at the Star Theatre in Kittery, Maine, (September 9th - September 18th), invites the audience to pull up a chair at the Apple family's dining room table early in the morning on the day of the 2012 Obama/Romney Presidential election; engrossing the viewer in the intricacies of family relationships and the overarching principles of love, tolerance and belonging that somehow manage to survive despite the ever growing complexity and public outrage of our American Culture.

Threshold Stage Company's innovative staging of "Into the Woods" this holiday season at the Star Theatre in Kittery, Maine envelops the audience in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's modern fairytale, immersing the viewer in the middle of the outrageously entangled lives of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Giant and many other fairytale characters as they strive to make their wishes come true at any price.

New Hampshire Theatre Project kicks off their 27th season with Hot Mama Mahatma, written and performed by Karen Fitzgerald, the actress formerly known as Karen Abrami.  Karen graced Seacoast stages for 15 years, in dozens of lead roles with some of the area's top actors, before heading south to New York City in 2004.  While there, she wrote Hot Mama Mahatma, a comedy about her post divorce adventures. The tagline? "She went to India to get enlightened but got turned on instead!" Besides playing to sold out audiences, Hot Mama Mahatma won the Producer's Award at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in Manhattan.

New Hampshire Theatre Project's 26th season continues with Goblin Market, an intimate chamber musical featuring award-winning actors Heather Glenn Wixson and Linette Miles as sisters who find their bonds of love tested by temptation.

New Hampshire Theatre Project is proud to announce their 2014-2015 performance season, Transcending Boundaries.

Dreaming Again, originally commissioned by the NH Humanities Council in 2011, will be touring the state of New Hampshire again this fall, in collaboration with Mariposa Museum in Peterborough. Written by Genevieve Aichele, Dreaming Again features the stories of New Hampshire immigrants and refugees over the past 100 years. Music director Agnes Charlesworth has included traditional music from all over the world, played by Peter Motson on keyboard, Cynthia Chatis on flute, and Theo Martey on West African percussion. Actors include NHTP company members CJ Lewis and Heather Glenn Wixson, and guest artists Claire White and Dan Acor.

New Hampshire Theatre Project's production of Blithe Spirit opens today, January 11, 2013 at the West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington Street, Portsmouth, NH.