The Park Theatre in Jaffrey announced today their production of the first annual New England Dickens Fest. The festival honors the celebrated British author with five days of holiday concerts, stage plays, movies, contests, craft & food fair, and much more.
The Park Theatre will present The 24 Hours Plays: MONADNOCK! on Saturday, September 30, at Jaffrey, New Hampshire's acclaimed Park Theatre performing arts center. Learn more about the performance and how to get tickets here!
The acclaimed documentary series about art and artists, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN, will debut at The Park Theatre in Jaffrey on May 10 with Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition. The 8-part series will present one new documentary film each month, May through December on the second Wednesday of each month at 1:30pm. They will be screened in the 333-seat Eppes Auditorium with its 27-foot wide screen and 17-speaker surround sound.
Born in Mississippi in 1939, Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson played with some of the greatest blues artists of all time. Luther notably represented the West Side Chicago style of Blues. He was part of Muddy Waters' band from 1972-1980. He will always be remembered for backing John Lee Hooker in the movie The Blues Brothers. Luther toured around the world, but for the last few decades he has called the Monadnock region his home.
The Park Theatre in Jaffrey has hundreds of posters in its inventory from past movies, concerts, and other events. Now you can have one of these large “one-sheet” posters that measure 40” high by 27” wide in your own home. The Jaffrey theatre is conducting a fundraising sale of the posters in their lobby on Saturday, December 10, from 11am to 4pm. Poster range in price from $5 to $35.
A new London stage production of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is starting the holiday month off at The Park Theatre with filmed screenings of the play on December 1 and 4.
The Park Theatre will be humming throughout December with a wide variety of holiday events. They include concerts, two classic holiday movies, a filmed ballet as well as a stage play plus Santa live for the kiddies.
The Park Theatre will hold a benefit movie screening for Ukrainian refugees in Poland on Sunday, July 24 at 4pm. The benefit will support the First Church in Jaffrey's efforts to raise funds for Ukraine.
The Peterborough Community Theatre in Peterborough, New Hampshire, experienced a significant setback with the loss of its air conditioning system on June 26. They have had to close their doors since then. They are working on getting it back as soon as possible.
The Park Theatre will host three blood drives with the American Red Cross this summer. The first date is Monday, June 27, from 10am to 3pm. The next dates are July 18 and August 29.
On May 1, 1922, an Italian immigrant named Romolo Vanni opened a business in Jaffrey, New Hampshire that would make a profound and long-lasting impression on a little mill town. The business was a moving picture theatre.
This weekend, “Where did that come from?” may be the question many people ask who have attended events at the Park Theatre’s Eppes Auditorium. Where there was auditorium seating, there is now a “secret dance floor.” This weekend, it will make its debut at the Chris Fitz Band Dance Concert on Saturday, March 19 at 7:30pm. The concert is the final event of the Shamrock Festival.
The Jaffrey St. Patrick’s Day Parade returns after a two-year hiatus due to Covid. It will now be part of a week of Irish culture and events produced by The Park Theatre in Jaffrey.
The Park Theatre will hold a night of great song and food on New Year's Eve. The evening features local favorites Bernie and Louise Watson. The party will go from 5pm to 7:30pm on December 31.
The Park Theatre held Santa's Christmas Party with a free showing of The Polar Express on Saturday, December 18.
The new Park Theatre will present its first stage play production, First Night, on December 28 and 29 at 7:30pm each night in the 333-seat Eppes Auditorium.
The Park Theatre announced the debut of their new Big Screen Movie Series starting Wednesday, December 15 with the 1984 classic, Gremlins.
A little town in southern New Hampshire is going full scary this Halloween. In addition to their annual Scarecrows on the Common, the new Park Theatre is presenting a festival of horror movies, plus spooky events and their 2nd annual Halloween costume contest. Halloweek Fest runs from October 26 to October 31.
The Monadnock 9th Annual Film Festival will present a new film about the staging of the first all-Black production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The critically acclaimed film drama, Voodoo Macbeth, will screen at The Park Theatre in Jaffrey, NH as part of the MONIFF festival on Friday, October 22 at 7 pm.
Luther has shared stages with many greats, including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers, and Johnny Winter. He also has a cameo in the original “Blues Brothers” movie playing backup for John Lee Hooker.
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