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Experience great talent and performances in picturesque Prescott Park
May 17, 2021
A photo from a past performance at the Prescott Park Arts Festival. This year’s musical is “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.”
Following a one-year break due to coronavirus-related precautions, the Prescott Park Arts Festival is back and ready for an outstanding season.
As usual, the festival will feature a musical, film series and concert series. In addition to the performing arts, there will be community collaborations and showcases as well as the return of their theater education camp “Camp Encore!”
However, the similarities to past years mostly end there. The festival has been reimagined to be COVID-safe. Instead of the typical crowds of people in front of the stage, there will be assigned socially distanced “pods,” spread either three or six feet apart, depending on guidance at the time. Mask-wearing will be required when walking around, but can be remo
Carol Feingold/Correspondent
Live musical theater is back with the Firehouse Center for the Arts production of the rock musical “RENT,” opening at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm on Friday, May 14, and running through Sunday, May 23.
“RENT” is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera “La Bohème.” It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan s East Village in the thriving days of bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
“It’s the 25th anniversary of the show opening on Broadway,” said John Moynihan, Firehouse Center for the Arts Executive Director. “It’s a show that touches upon so many relevant factors today. The struggles of the artist have never been more relevant than right now. There’s still the feeling of isolation and the reunifying factor of friends a family.”
Special to the Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH Following the 2020 season cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Prescott Park Arts Festival is poised to return this summer with the musical You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.
The musical is scheduled to premiere Friday, July 9 at 8 p.m. and run each week Thursday through Sunday until Aug. 15.
“We’re excited to be back in Portsmouth’s beautiful Prescott Park and to present the story of this beloved piece of Americana,” said Courtney Perkins, executive director of Prescott Park Arts Festival. “Personally, I’m thrilled to experience my first true summer at the Festival and the positive and uplifting nature of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown makes it the perfect musical to welcome our community back.”