September heralds the signs of fall, kids have gone back to school, pumpkins are plentiful, leaves are changing color, and Telluride by the Sea comes to Portsmouth. This fall, the beloved film festival returns with six top-notch films fresh from their debuts at the Telluride Film Festival. Once again, you have the chance to see the movies that everyone will be talking about, before they are released, in our beautifully restored theater.Read More
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The recipe for an erotic thriller is simple. Take two hypnotically gorgeous people (say Matthias Schoenaerts and Tilda Swinton) and have them play rich people—a rock star and a filmmaker—in a ridiculously attractive setting (say the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria). Then add two outsiders (also gorgeous) including an ex-boyfriend of Swinton’s (Ralph Fiennes) and his daughter Penelope (Dakota Johnson (of Fifty Shades of Grey fame).Read More
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I have Olympic fever. For the last week and a half I’ve celebrated with Michael Phelps and his record breaking 28 medals, been awed by Katie Ledecky, cried with Aly Raisman after her floor exercise routine, and I’m still reeling from the US losing to Brazil in beach volleyball last night. Needless to say, I’m a little bit sleep deprived. Read More
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Yes, it’s been bloody hot. Thanks for mentioning it. It’s August, and while that’s still summer, the specter of September is starting to look over your shoulder while you bake on that beach or sip that G&T on the deck. Plus the garden is starting to look a little tired, what with the bugs, fungus, mange, rabies and everything else that afflicts the plant kingdom in late summer. We need something to lift our spirits, to let us laugh at the calendar and revel in the air conditioning while we can. What to do? What to do?Read More
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Here the bestselling author Judy Blume talks with Margaret Talcott, the Producer of Writers on a New England Stage, about her teen years, her writing, and what’s in store for the future.Read More
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This fall our beloved Writers on a New England Stage Series, that we produce with New Hampshire Public Radio, is featuring three best selling authors.Read More
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Every month, I read Vogue Magazine cover to cover. I curl up with each issues and a quad shot soy latte, I put my iPhone on do not disturb, it’s become one of my traditions. I’ve been doing this for as long as I can remember, replacing my hot chocolate with a latte as I got older. I’ve been fascinated by the people who create it month after month, issue after issue and when the Devil Wears Prada burst on to every best seller list I promptly bought a copy and curled up with it and my quad soy latte.Read More
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On Tuesday, we will be discussing Love and Friendship, a film that brings together two creative people for whom I have a great deal of affection. The first is Jane Austen, who is, without a doubt, one of the clearest-eyed, most wickedly amusing observers of human behavior ever. Her insights into the jealousy, snobbery and folly of late 18th and early 19th century England can still draw blood, which is why filmmakers keep making and remaking her novels into movies. (Well, the fact that her works are all in the public domain and feed the current general hunger for costume dramas may have something to do with it.)Read More
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