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Moscow Festival Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
4pm @ Historic Theater • $50; $38; 15 & under: $15
Choreographed in strict association with Tchaikovsky music, it tells the dramatic story of a young girl’s coming of age and the triumph of good over evil.
No Film Tonight
Extraordinary Cinema: Pariah
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 86min • USA
Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn and is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian.
Extraordinary Cinema: Pariah
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 86min • USA
RAIN for the Sahel & Sahara Presents:
Soul of the Sahara, a benefit concert with Bombino
8pm @ Historic Theater • $35; $25
International sensation Bombino gives a rare US performance to benefit RAIN for the Sahel and Sahara.
Extraordinary Cinema: A Dangerous Method
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 99min • UK
Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes Sabina (Keira Knightley) as his patient, using the method of his master, Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Dir. David Cronenberg. Telluride by the Sea 2011.
The Met @ The Music Hall: Manon (Massenet)
12pm @ Historic Theater • $27.50 • 18 & under: $15
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production.
Extraordinary Cinema: A Dangerous Method 7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 99min • UK
No Film Tonight - Happy Easter!
Extraordinary Cinema: The Iron Lady
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 105min • UK
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep, Best Actress Oscar), the UK's first and only female Prime Minister and one of history's most influential women.
Extraordinary Cinema: The Iron Lady 7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 105min • UK
Extraordinary Cinema: The Iron Lady 7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 105min • UK
Writers in the Loft: James B. Stewart
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • Ticket package: $31
Includes reserved seat, book ($17.00), bar beverage; author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist joins us with his new work, Tangled Webs. Stewart will be in conversation with philosopher Michael Lynch, author of four books on truth.
Wildcard Movie: Wild & Scenic Film Festival
7pm @ Historic Theater • NR • 120min • $12.50
10th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival returns with another incredible selection of short films to change your world. Presented in partnership with Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire.
Opera Circle: La Traviata
11:30am @ Music Hall Loft • $14 • Opera expert/writer-producer Dennis Kleinman will lead a lively discussion on La Traviata.
The Met @ The Music Hall: La Traviata (Verdi)
1pm @ Historic Theater • $27.50 • 18 & under: $15
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met.
Extraordinary Cinema: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 128min • France
Based on the classic novel, directed by Thomas Alfredson (Let The Right One In). A Cold War-era international spy thriller, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley in an Oscar-nominated role.
Extraordinary Cinema: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 128min • France
Wildcard Movie: Spaceballs
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG • 96min • USA • 1987
A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. With Bill Pullman, John Candy, and Rick Moranis. Join us for a Portsmouth Foursquare Day meet-up in the Founders Lobby at 5pm!
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Writers in the Loft: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • Ticket package: $64
Includes reserved seat, book ($50.00), bar beverage; author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet.
One of America’s foremost literary critics and educators, Henry Louis Gates is Harvard University’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Extraordinary Cinema: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
7pm @ Historic Theater • R • 128min • France
Historical Tour • 5:30pm @ Historic Theater 18
Hilarity @ The Music Hall: Ron White Moral Compass Tour 7:30pm @ Historic Theater • $78; $65
Comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White, best known as the cigar smoking, scotch drinking funnyman from the “Blue Collar Comedy” phenomenon!
Extraordinary Cinema: Crazy Horse
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 134min • USA • Subtitled
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman explores one of the most mythic and colorful places dedicated to women, the Crazy Horse – a legendary Parisian cabaret club. 19
Seacoast Media Group Presents: The Spotlight Awards 7pm @ Historic Theater • Free
Extraordinary Cinema: Crazy Horse
7pm @ Music Hall Loft • NR • 134min • USA • Subtitled
Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival: Merle Haggard 8pm @ Historic Theater • $78; $70
Three time Grammy winner, Country Hall of Famer, 2010 Kennedy Center Honoree, kicks off our Singer Songwriter Festival.
Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival:
The Felice Brothers/O'Death/The Farthest Forests
7pm @ Historic Theater • $28; $22
Three fabulous bands all on our stage as part of our Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival!
Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival: Double Bill!
Elsa Cross & Lucy Wainwright Roche
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • $15 (at door only, limited availability)
Elsa Cross returns to her Portsmouth past from Austin, TX; Lucy Wainwright Roche is a member of music family royalty.
Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival:
Round Robin of Seacoast Singer Songwriters
1pm @ Music Hall Loft • $10 (at door only, limited availability)
A celebration of the vibrant Seacoast singer-songwriter scene, with each rising-star act playing for 15 minutes.
Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival: Rosanne Cash
7:30pm @ Historic Theater • $47; $42
The eldest daughter of the late Johnny Cash has had 11 #1 country singles, 21 Top 40 country hit singles, and two gold records.
Kent Stephens' Stage Force Presents
The Play Reading Series:
A Feminine Ending by Sarah Treem
7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • $12, includes house beverage
Extraordinary Cinema: Chico & Rita
7pm @ Historic Theater • NR • 94min • Spain • Subtitled Cuba, 1948. Chico and Rita are united by music and desire as they chase their dreams from Havana to NYC, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist and Grammy-winning composer Bebo Valdés.
Extraordinary Cinema: Chico & Rita
7pm @ Historic Theater • NR • 94min •Spain • Subtitled
Wildcard: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
7pm @ Historic Theater • PG13 • 126min • USA
An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller; a film far ahead of its time. Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey and Janet Leigh. Post-film Q&A with soundtrack composer David Amram.
Extraordinary Cinema: The Salt of Life
7pm @ Historic Theater • NR • 90min • Italy • Subtitled Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) is a middle-aged retiree trying his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life – with both hilarious and poignant results.
Jazzmouth Presents: 7th Annual Jazzmouth 2012 7:30pm @ Music Hall Loft • $17
An array of poetry, music, & film featuring Beat legend David Amram. 3pm Film: David Amram: The First 80 Years (Film: $5)
Extraordinary Cinema: The Salt of Life
7pm @ Historic Theater • NR • 90min • Italy • Subtitled
Extraordinary Cinema: The Salt of Life
7pm @ Historic Theater • NR • 90min • Italy • Subtitled Andover Chamber Music: Sense & Sensibility 2pm & 4pm @ Music Hall Loft • $35
