In September, we’re throwing a multi-stage outdoor music festival to benefit our community’s first responders and frontline essential workers. These folks kept us going through the pandemic and their resilience and dedication inspired and awed us. Read More
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From the ashes of the Temple, The Music Hall rises as Portsmouth’s first purpose-built theater. See the entertainments of the day - including minstrel shows - and the purchase of the theater by none other than Frank Jones.Read More
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This Saturday, June 26 from 9am to 3pm, The Music Hall is hosting the seventh annual Fill the Hall food drive for Gather. The goal is to have enough donations to fill each seat in the Historic Theater for Gather’s Meals 4 Kids program. If you don’t have time to raid your pantry or run to the store, you can still help by making a monetary donation and dropping it off. Can't drop by? You can donate right now on their website. The money will go directly to Gather's specific needs—just $25 will feed a child for a week!Read More
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Join us tomorrow on June 17 to get in the groove for Juneteenth with Dwayne Haggins, who has been dubbed the “John Legend of rockabilly.” We had so much fun when Haggins came last year at his LUTA show and we can’t wait to see him back on our stage! Read More
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The short video series, Bite-Sized History, continues with two new chapters on the history of theater and music in Portsmouth, leading up to The Music Hall as we know it today. Read More
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Haberdashery’s loss was Hollywood’s gain. Had William Wyler followed his father into the family business, Europeans might have looked stylish for generations, but the film business would have suffered greatly. Fortunately for us, Wyler was miserable selling suits and pocket squares in Paris, so his mother reached out to her first cousin Carl Laemmle in America. Carl ran a little operation called Universal Pictures. Would he be willing to hire her 18-year-old son “Willi”?Read More
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Together, let’s do something big for New Hampshire! Starting on June 8 at 6 p.m., join The Music Hall and thousands of your New Hampshire neighbors for NH Gives, a 24-hour giving event created by the NH Center for Nonprofits to support New Hampshire’s nonprofits.Read More
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