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Saturday
Extraordinary Cinema: Buck
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG • 88 min • 2011 A real life “horse-whisperer,” Buck Brannaman is a true cowboy who travels the country helping horses with people problems.
Extraordinary Cinema: Buck
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG • 88 min • 2011
No Film Tonight
Just one more day until we hear Maddie’s new CD! – “dreamy elegance” – NY Daily News
Intimately Yours: Madeleine Peyroux
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $59; $48 Opener: Nellie McKay Known for intimately arranged covers of early American blues and jazz standards, Peyroux now moves into “rootsier” territory.
Extraordinary Cinema: Buck
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG • 88 min • 2011
Wednesday
The North Face Speaker Series Presents: Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathoner Life in Motion
7pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: Visit TheNorthFace.com. GA: Free. Advanced Tickets: $8. VIP Reception @ 6pm: $20.
Extraordinary Cinema: Buck
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG • 88 min • 2011
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Writers in the Loft: Chris Bohjalian
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NT Live: The Kitchen
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7pm @ Music Hall Loft • $39; Reserved seat, book ($25), bar beverage; author presentation, Q&A, book signing meet & greet. The NY Times bestselling author joins us with his latest novel, a riveting ghost story centered on a tragic airplane crash. 7pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $27.50 A tour de force spectacle – a darkly funny examination of life lived at breakneck speed – in a kitchen!
Extraordinary Cinema: Buck
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG • 88min • 2011
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Saturday
Kids RULE! Movie: Winnie the Pooh
11:30am @ Historic Theater • G • 63min • 2011 This all-new movie with a classic Disney aesthetic features the philosophical "bear of very little brain" and friends.
Wednesday
NH Association for the Blind Presents: Voices of Vision 8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $25; Day of show $35 A delightful evening of folk, blues and pop music featuring Scott MacIntyre, Laurel Brauns, and Wooden Eye. No Film Tonight
Sunday
The only place in Northern New England to see the HOT Kings of Salsa Oct. 12!
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Monday
Explore + Learn: Discover Shaker Life 5:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $10 An introduction to the breathtaking dance performance Angel Reapers (10/22). Led by Shelburne Museum Curator Jean Burks.
Extraordinary Cinema: Project Nim
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 93min • 2011 The story of Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark experiment to raise an ape like a human child.
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Sierra Hull, a child prodigy mentored by Alison Krauss, comes to the Loft Oct. 23
Historical Tour of The Music Hall • 5:30pm Extraordinary Cinema: Project Nim
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 93min • 2011
Red Bull Presents: The Art of Flight
8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $17.75
Explore + Learn: Opera Circle
5:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $12 (incl. 1 house beverage) Hosted by David Kleinman.
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Extraordinary Cinema: The Trip
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Martha Clarke's Angel Reapers
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 107min • 2010 The true story of Betty Ann Waters, who worked to overturn her brother's murder conviction. Post-film panel: Ms. Waters, former NH Attorney General Philip McLaughlin and Richard Miles, a man found innocent of murder after serving 15 years in Texas. 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 107min • 2010 Playing loose versions of themselves, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite with acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom for an acerbically witty, largely improvised ride. 8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $59; $48 Shaker founder Ann Lee (1736-1784), a visionary mystic and spiritual leader, is the inspiration for this breathtaking dance work.
Extraordinary Cinema: The Trip
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 107min • 2010
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The Met @ The Music Hall: Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
1pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $59; $48 Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king.
Sierra Hull & Highway 111 • On sale to members NOW! To public 10/1.
7pm & 9pm @ Music Hall Loft • Tickets: $25 Bluegrass songstress and virtuoso mandolin player and her band tour behind her new album, Daybreak, produced by Alison Krauss.
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No Film Tonight
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Extraordinary Cinema: The Trip
Girls Night Out! Women Fully Clothed, Oct. 28
Monday
Extraordinary Cinema: The Trip
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 107min • 2010
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Wednesday
Helly Hansen & Matchstick Productions Present: Attack of La Nina • 8pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $17.75 Extraordinary Cinema: The Trip
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 107min • 2010 7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 107min • 2010
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Friday
Hilarity @ The Music Hall: Women Fully Clothed
8pm @ Historic Theater • $29; $22 Four Second City vets riff on career and family. The Toronto Star calls them “an all-estrogen comedy dream team!”
Kings of Salsa
Extraordinary Cinema: The Trip
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $50; $35 Intoxicating. Exuberant. Nine “gods and goddesses of the dance floor” (Bangkok Post) backed by a nine-piece band.
Extraordinary Cinema: The Guard
New Hampshire Film Festival Schedule To Be Announced • NHFilmFestival.com
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • R • 104min • 2010
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New Hampshire Film Festival Schedule To Be Announced • NHFilmFestival.com
New Hampshore Film Festival Schedule To Be Announced • NHFilmFestival.com
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.
The Met @ The Music Hall: Don Giovanni (Mozart)
The best in recent independent cinema from the region, nation and world presented in an inspiring, four-day celebration.
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7pm @ Music Hall Loft • PG • 88min • 2011
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New Hampshire Film Festival Schedule To Be Announced • NHFilmFestival.com
Film Matters: Conviction
Extraordinary Cinema: Buck
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October 2011
1pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $27.50 Mariusz Kwiecien in his sensual interpretation of the timeless anti-hero. Directed by Tony Award-winning Michael Grandage.
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Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra Presents: Beethoven 5th 3pm @ Historic Theater • Tickets: $20 Fate, destiny and the supernatural combine forces in a kaleidoscopic tableau of fatalism, a witches’ orgy, and Death leading a macabre dance on stage.
Extraordinary Cinema: The Guard
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 96min • 2011
Show & Tell Discussion follows the film Film tickets: $8.50 Adults, $6.50 Seniors 60+, Students & Military 10/4 Intimately Yours: Madeline Peyroux Series Sponsors: 92.5 The River; Jumpin' Jay's Fish Café Evening Sponsor: Clear Eye Photo; Me & Ollie's; The Provident Bank; Weyland Capital Management • 10/6 Writers in the Loft Series Sponsor: Citizens Bank Evening Sponsor: Seatrade International Co., Inc. 10/7 NT Live Series Sponsor: Seatrade International Co., Inc. Evening Sponsor: The Kitchen 10/12 Kings of Salsa Sponsors: Best Western Hotel & Suites; The District; NHPR; NextEra Energy Seabrook Station 10/28 Hilarity: Women Fully Clothed Series Sponsors: Kennebunk Savings Bank; WHEB Evening Sponsors: Beswick Engineering Company Inc.; Carpe Diem Coffee Roasting Company; Harbour Women’s Health; Secure Planning, Inc.; Whole Life Health Care; WSCA 106.1FM Portsmouth Community Radio 10/30 Met: Don Giovanni Series Sponsors: NH Public Television; The Senior Times Evening Sponsors: Avery Insurance; Cambridge Trust Company of NH; RiverWoods at Exeter; Tate and Foss Sotheby’s International Realty
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October 2011
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"SIZZLING EROTICISM AND FEVERISH EUPHORIA" - CULTURE & MEDIA
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Sierra Hull
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