Special NHTP Member Offer!

Take advantage of this spring’s Membership Special!
$20 off the American Classics Adult Acting Intensive!
June 11-July 7 ~ Mondays & Wednesdays ~ 7-9pm
Fee: $300 (includes $25 registration fee)
Led by artist Leslie Pasternack, participants will explore American Classics through script analysis, acting techniques and simple staging. Final performances will be held July 6-7.
*Note: No class on Wed. July 4.

Become a member today and receive $20 OFF your class fee!
Call us at 603-431-6644 or email info@nhtheatreproject.org to register!

Sat, June 16 ~ Annual Summer Solstice Yard Sale!

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure at
NHTP’s Summer Solstice Yard Sale!!
June 16th, 7am – 5pm
959 Islington Street in Portsmouth

  NHTP is doing some spring cleaning and gearing up for day of fun!
Theatre props, costumes, furniture & household items and much more!

This year the NHTP Yard Sale has something for EVERYONE!
Family-friendly entertainment and games for all ages!
This year NHTP is teaming up with the Planet Green Recycling Fundraising Program! Make a donation to NHTP by dropping off your used ink cartridges, old electronics & more! Help the planet & help NHTP!
For a complete list of items…

SHAKESPEARIENCE – NHTP May Event

A fun time was had by all on Thursday, May 24 at NHTP!
Thanks to all those who came out to explore your inner
Shakespearean actor and support NHTP’s mission!

NHTP Board President Matt Saunders and Special Event Committee Chair Michael Megliola duel as Romeo & Tybalt

Artists led games, stage combat & Shakespearean scenes!

“Double double, Toil and trouble”

Shakespearience!

MORE 2012 SPRING WORKSHOPS!

MORE 2012 SPRING WORKSHOPS!!

NHTP’s new spring workshops with Meghann Beauchamp are open for registration! Click here to download the New Spring Workshops Registration Form

Discovering the Magic of Monologues – Ages 12-17
Wednesdays, May 23, 30 & June 6
5-6:30pm, Fee $125
For actors of all experience levels!
Monologues don’t have to be a lonely experience!

Stories on Stage – Ages 6-9
Mondays June 4, 11 & 18
4-5pm, Fee $100
A fun choice for young actors looking to explore stories for the stage!

Recently On Stage ~ Antigone

NHTP’s Senior Repertory Company presented Antigone May 18-27. A translation by Lewis Galantiere from the play by Jean Anouilh, Antigone was adapted from the original Greek play by Sophocles. Antigone (Jane Merrow), the daughter of Oedipus, is sentenced to execution for burying her dead brother after her uncle, King Creon (Luke Gajewski), declares that his body is to be left for the vultures. The prohibition against desecrating the dead is almost as old as war itself; and recently brought swift punishment to American Marines in Afghanistan. Anouilh’s version of Antigone was first performed in Paris in 1944 during the Nazi occupation. Produced under censorship, the play is clearly a metaphor for the French Resistance movement and its rejection of Nazi authority.

Recently in NH – Dreaming Again

Dreaming Again performed to SOLD OUT houses April 13-15 at NHTP in Portsmouth and the production proceeded to move through the Granite State at locations in Laconia, Manchester, Gorham, Concord, Dover, Keene & Claremont through April 23! Thank you to all attended and took part in the discussions about immigration in our state! We are NHTP are proud to have been part of this much-needed NHHC project.

Dreaming Again is an original dramatic play based on stories of Granite State immigrants and refugees who have resettled in New Hampshire over the past 100 years. Drawn from interviews with 30 different contemporary immigrants, as well as literary and historic sources, Dreaming Again celebrates both the joys and difficulties of arriving as a stranger and learning how to be a citizen in your new home. As a recent immigrant says so eloquently: Like a child, I am teaching myself how to dream again.

Commissioned by the NH Humanities Council, Dreaming Again is the culminating project in their three-year Fences & Neighbors initiative.  The play will premiere in Portsmouth at NHTP, and then tour to seven other venues throughout New Hampshire.NHTP artistic director Genevieve Aichele will direct Dreaming Again, assisted by Lydia White-Spunner.  Actors include Dan Acor, Heather Glenn Wixson,  Indira Leal, and CJ Lewis.  Traditional music arranged by music director Agnes Charlesworth performed by musicians Peter Motson, Theo Martey and Cynthia Chatis. Lighting and set design by Meghann Beauchamp, costume design by Michele Macadaeg, stage management by Lindsey Nelson.

Recently on Stage – The Detention Club

Hear, O Friends, The Story Of Persephone… The start to a favorite myth of Ms. Demeter Jones, new Myths & Legends teacher at Ptown High School. When students find themselves stuck in after-school detention, they plot to escape what they think will be the most boring detention imaginable…  But as the story unfolds, the students make some new discoveries and realize that maybe detention isn’t so bad after all!

This new work by NHTP’s Junior Repertory Company was on the NHTP stage March 30-April 1, 2012.

Thanks to all who attended for your support! We hope to see you April 13-15 for Dreaming Again!