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Kirschner Concerts Presents Lindsey Buckingham 7:30pm @ Historic Theater
Extraordinary Cinema: The Guard
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 96min • 2011 A comedic fish-out-of-water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption. Stars Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson. 7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • $13 Signed book $24.95 ($22.45 in advance with voucher) The best selling author of Survivor, Fight Club and Choke takes the stage with a tale of adolescence.
Intimately Yours: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $48; $38 Opener: Kitty, Daisy and Lewis The “retro-soul titans” (Pitchfork) who thrilled Music Hall fans return to our stage touring behind their new album, Soul Time.
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8pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $28 When journalist Mitch Albom’s former college professor is diagnosed with ALS, their reunion becomes a weekly lesson in the art of living.
Kent Stephens Stage Force: Tuesdays with Morrie
3pm & 8pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: 3pm $28; 8pm $33
Intimately Yours: Brandi Carlile (Solo Acoustic) SOLD OUT
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $48; $38 Opener: The Secret Sisters Compared to Patsy Cline, Brandi Carlile melds punk, indie pop and rock into her folk rock/alt-country sound.
Kent Stephens Stage Force: Tuesdays with Morrie
2pm & 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: 2pm $33; 7pm $28
Writers in the Loft: Ann Beattie
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • $40; Reserved seat, book ($26), bar beverage; author presentation, Q&A, book signing meet & greet. One of America’s most celebrated writers brings us this riveting exploration of former First Lady Pat Nixon.
Screen Classics: Big Night
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 107min • 1996 Written/dir. by Stanley Tucci. Brothers Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Tucci), have come from Italy in the 1950s to make a killing with an Italian restaurant. Minnie Driver; Isabella Rossellini.
Hilarity @ The Music Hall: Lily Tomlin
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $68; $64 Lily Tomlin burst onto the scene with “Laugh-in” and continues to pick up awards: six Emmys, two Tonys, and one Grammy.
Kent Stephens Stage Force: Tuesdays with Morrie 7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $28
National Acrobats of China 7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $40; $30
A dizzying, colorful theatrical spectacular from international award-winners who set the standard for acrobatic art.
Kent Stephens Stage Force: Tuesdays with Morrie 8pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $28
Absinthe Films Presents snowboard double feature: Twel2ve & Yes. It’s a Movie 8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $12.75
Kent Stephens Stage Force: Tuesdays with Morrie 8pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $33
Intimately Yours: Mike Gordon
8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $28; $24 The Phish bassist/vocalist and his band return with inventive song-writing, eclectic, free-form rock & roll, calypso, and funk.
Kent Stephens Stage Force: Tuesdays with Morrie
2pm & 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: 2pm $33; 7pm $28
Extraordinary Cinema: Sarah's Key
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 111min • 2011 • Subtitles An American journalist in France (Kristin Scott Thomas) uncovers a secret which will link her forever to a young Jewish girl, Sarah. No Film Tonight
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Extraordinary Cinema: Sarah's Key
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 111min • 2011 • Subtitles
Film Matters: For the Next 7 Generations
7pm @ Historic Theater • NR Documentary about indigenous grandmothers from around the world working for a brighter future. Post-film Q&A.
Kent Stephens Stage Force Presents Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie
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7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $28
Extraordinary Cinema: Sarah's Key
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 111min • 2011 • Subtitles
Kent Stephens Stage Force Presents Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie 8pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $28
The Met @ The Music Hall: Satyagraha (Glass)
1pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $27.50 The visually extravagant production is back for an encore; Richard Croft is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s unforgettable opera.
Kent Stephens Stage Force Presents Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie
3pm & 8pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: 3pm $28; 8pm $33
Extraordinary Cinema: Sarah's Key
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7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 111min • 2011 • Subtitles
Kent Stephens Stage Force Presents Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie 2pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: 2pm $33
Hilarity @ The Music Hall: Paula Poundstone
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $38; $24 Paula’s ability to create humor on the spot has become the stuff of legend - don't miss this show!
Warren Miller Entertainment Presents Like There's No Tomorrow
8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $22 Hosted by skiing icon Jonny Moseley and shot on location in India, New Zealand, Chile, Alaska, Norway, B.C. and beyond.
Warren Miller Entertainment Presents Like There's No Tomorrow
6pm & 9pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $22
Warren Miller Entertainment Presents Like There's No Tomorrow
6pm & 9pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $22 No Film Tonight - Box Office is closed. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Handsome Little Devils Present Squirm Burpee Circus A Vaudevillian Melodrama 7pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $32; $25 Get the whole family out of the house and into this first-class vaudeville circus that will have you rolling in the aisles, with eye-popping gadgets and gizmos!
Intimately Yours: An Evening with Gillian Welch
8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $32 This singer/songwriter/guitarist has received critical acclaim for her new Southern sound – a blend of Appalachian, Bluegrass and Americana.
Extraordinary Cinema: Tabloid
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 87min • 2010 The latest by acclaimed documentarian Errol Morris. 30 years before Lindsay Lohan was regular gossip fodder, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney made her mark as a tabloid staple. No Film Tonight Loft seating is limited buy tickets in advance!
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Extraordinary Cinema: Tabloid
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 87min • 2010
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The Met @ The Music Hall: Siegfried (Wagner)
12pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $27.50 In part three of the Ring, Wagner focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while the stage transforms to mountaintop love nest.
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Writers on a New England Stage: Chuck Palahniuk
Kent Stephens Stage Force Presents Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie
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Historical Tour of The Music Hall • 5:30pm Extraordinary Cinema: Sarah's Key
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 111min • 2011 • Subtitles
Extraordinary Cinema: Tabloid
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 87min • 2010
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11/2: School Days Series: Choozy Suzy @ 9:30am
Show & Tell Discussion follows the film
11/15: School Days Series: Doktor Kaboom! @ 9:30am & 11:30am Film tickets: $8.50 Adults, $6.50 Seniors 60+, Students & Military
11/3 Writers on a New England Stage Series Partners: NHPR; Yankee Magazine; RiverRun Bookstore Series Sponsors: Auger Building Company, Inc.; Calypso Communications; New England Audio Tech LLC; Piscataqua Landscaping Company, Inc.; RMC Research, Corp.; Haunted Milk Design Evening Sponsor: Popovers on the Square • 11/4 Intimately Yours Series Sponsors: 92.5 The River; Jumpin' Jay's Fish Cafe Evening Sponsor: Clear Eye Photo 11/5 Met Series Sponsors: NH Public Television; The Senior Times Evening Sponsors: Avery Insurance 11/6 Intimately Yours Series Sponsors: 92.5 The River; Jumpin' Jay's Fish Cafe Evening Sponsors: Me & Ollie's; The Lighting Center at Rockingham Electric; People's United Bank; Keystone Press; Clear Eye Photo 11/7 Writers in the Loft Series Sponsor: Citizens Bank 11/9 Hilarity Series Sponsors: Kennebunk Savings Bank; WHEB Evening Sponsors: Martin's Point Health Care; Barbara Henry, Hampton, NH; Bottomline Technologies; Carpe Diem Coffee Roasting Company; Homewood Suites by Hilton in Portsmouth, NH; Permanent Cosmetics by Jamilla; The White Apron; Wells Fargo Advisors 11/10 Nat'l Acrobats Sponsors: Comfort Inn Portsmouth; WERZ; Allergy Associates of New Hampshire; Piscataqua Savings Bank; PixelMEDIA; Prime, Buchholz & Associates, Inc.; RAM Printing; Robert’s Maine Grill 11/12 Intimately Yours Series Sponsors: 92.5 The River; Dos Amigos Burritos Evening Sponsor: IOS Business Centers; Clear Eye Photo 11/19 Met Series Sponsors: NH Public Television; The Senior Times Evening Sponsor: DTC Lawyers, Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC 11/20 Hilarity Series Sponsors: Kennebunk Savings Bank; WHEB Evening Sponsors: Beswick Engineering Company, Inc.; Bottomline Technologies; IOS Business Centers; J. Hillburn Men’s Custom Shirts & Apparel; The Lighting Center at Rockingham Electric; MoJo's BBQ Grill & Tavern 11/25 Squirm Burpee Circus Sponsors: NHPR; Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth Hotel 11/26 Intimately Yours Series Sponsors: 92.5 The River; The Red Door Evening Sponsors: Me & Ollie's; Clear Eye Photo
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with author Chuck Palahniuk (11/3); girls from Arts in Reach meet Brandi Carlile back stage (11/6); Lily Tomlin does a postshow Q+A with the audience, then a private backstage meet & greet with Arts In Reach (11/9); and November Film Matters Q+A with Hopi
Grandmother Mona Polacca on her vision for healing our planet (11/17)…our Corporate Partners Film Night (11/8) starts off with a reception (appetizers from Blue Mermaid Island Grill) then Partners are invited to stay for our
Screen Classic: Big Night, that fab film we’re showing for Res-
taurant Week (11/3-12) …plans for Vintage Christmas in Portsmouth are in full swing – watch for a Pop-Up Market in the Loft and a new trolley stop at Vaughan Mall…speaking of the
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