PORTSMOUTH— The Seacoast Repertory Theatre is welcoming back a growing audience with its summer-season production of "Pippin", the award-winning musical about a medieval prince and his search for a meaningful
Summer in the Street returns July 10
Pro Portsmouth is back online. There are events in the works, and Executive Director Barbara Massar could not be more pleased. I m excited because I haven t had anything to focus on for a year, Massar says. It was maddening.
2021 s Children s Day was cancelled, and Market Square Day was moved, but Summer in the Street returns at its normal time, starting July 10. That s what we re focused on now. We re getting contracts together, and coming up with the schedule, she says. The big thing beyond that is moving Market Square Day from June to September, so we can have an in-person festival and road race. We re looking at September 18.
Gossip: Creating a place for the arts to collaborate
Jeanné McCartin
Some major moves have taken place at the New Hampshire Theatre Project the past few weeks.
The big news is the departure of Artistic Director Catherine Stewart. A lot of people automatically assumed Catherine was going to be my successor when she took the artistic director s job. But from the start it was our understanding, clear to us but not to the outside, she came on to do a number of things to prepare for succession, Founding Executive Director Genevieve Aichele says. Stewart did that in spades.
Stewart helped create a strategic plan, reorganized the main stage season ( which was going great guns til COVID ), restructured the company s artists program, created a company handbook, rebranded NHTP and was instrumental in keeping it going during the pandemic.