Photo: David Murray/Clear Eye Photo
NOW An American Treasure for the Arts @ the music hall
live events april
Writers on a New England Stage
ISABEL ALLENDE - EVENT SOLD OUT!
Wednesday, May 5 • 7:30pm
Vouchers for signed Book AVAILABLE: $25.15 in advance, $27.95 day of
SERIES PARTNERS:
PILOBOLUS
Friday, May 21 • 8pm • $52-$20
From performing at the Academy Awards to choreographing the Rockettes, this radically innovative and acclaimed dance company is renowned the world over. “A conversation between art and athletics.” (New York Times)
Note: Some pieces include partial nudity
SPONSORS:The Lollipop Tree; PainCare; Port City Veterinary Referral Hospital; Seatrade International Co., Inc.; Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA SANGER COMMUNICATIONS
May is Membership Month!
by LAUREN LENOX, Membership Manager
This is the time of year we look forward to most in the Membership office. As we announce our upcoming season (on sale to members June 5th) it is the perfect time to say thank you to our 3,000 new and renewing members! As a special treat – we will hold an “I’ve Got The Golden Ticket” raffle each week during May. Join or upgrade and be entered into a drawing for a SummerFilm Golden Ticket (admission for two, one large popcorn and two soft drinks for all SummerFilms!).
Members SummerFilm Trailer Party!
Thursday, June 3rd • 5:30pm
Complimentary snacks and soft drinks, cash bar, and a chance to win a Golden Ticket!
5:30pm Founders Lobby opens for mingling
5:45- 6:30pm On Screen, a rolling preview of the 2010-2011 Season
6:30pm Take your seat in the theater for the Golden
7:30pm Stay
Peek inside the contemporary & traditional homes of these historic seacoast towns in a benefit for The Music Hall.
Tickets: $20 for members in advance, $23 not yet members, $25 day of tour
PRESENTING SPONSORS: Coastal Home Magazine; DeStefano Architects; Piscataqua Landscaping Company, Inc.; Portsmouth Blind + Shade; The Lighting Center at Rockingham Electric/Harbor Lights; Stonewall Kitchen; Bold Cabinetry. For a complete list of sponsors visit www.themusichall.org
Photo: www.gregwestphotography.com
DIERKS
BENTLEY
Friday, May 7 • 8pm
$38.50; $33
The rising country star makes his Music Hall debut!
THE SAW DOCTORS
Sunday, May 16 • 7:30pm • $33; $28
The Irish supergroup holds the record for Ireland’s biggest-selling single of all time (“I Useta Lover”). A huge variety of musical influences, including pop, punk, rock ‘n’ roll, and traditional Irish, all contribute to the band’s signature sound. Don’t miss their barnstorming live performance!
SPONSORS: BayRing Communications; Clear Eye Photo; RiRa The Irish Pub
SERIES SPONSOR:
founders lobby lounge
Ajami
The debut from Israeli and Palestinian co-directors Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti, whose location filming, use of nonprofessional actors and balanced perspective lend authenticity to a complex, cross-cultural drama set in Jaffa’s multi-ethnic Ajami neighborhood, home to Jews, Muslims and Christians. The repercussions of a revenge killing reveal the cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface. In Arabic & Hebrew with subtitles.
“You emerge from Ajami moved and also grateful for the heart, craft and intelligence the movie has shown”
– NEW YORK TIMES
A P ROPHET
RaT ed R • 155mi N • FR a NC e • 5/9 - 5/13 daily @ 7pm • 3:30pm matinee 5/9 • discussion follows 5/11 show
At age 18, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is just beginning a six-year prison sentence in this drama from The Beat That My Heart Skipped director Jacques Audiard. Though he cannot read or write, Malik soon figures out the politics of the prison system, giving him a prime spot in the power struggle between two battling groups of prisoners. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars and the Golden Globes. Subtitled
“A movie that operates on a higher plane than its peers.” – BOSTON GLOBE
GREENBERG
R aT ed R • 107mi N • US a • 5/14 - 5/19 daily @ 7pm • No show 5/15 & 5/16
Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), single, fortyish and at a crossroads in his life, finds himself house-sitting for six weeks for his more successful, married-with-children brother. In search of a place to restart his life, he finds himself spending time with his brother’s assistant Florence (Greta Gerwig). Despite his attempts not to be drawn in, Greenberg realizes he may at last have found a reason to be happy. From The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding writer/director, Noah Baumbach.
“The funniest and saddest movie Mr. Baumbach has made so far.” – NEW YORK TIMES KIDS RULE! MOVIE: A TOWN CALLED PANIC
NOT RaT ed • 75mi N • B e LG i U m • 5/22 @ 2pm • 1 Show Only!
The first stop-motion animated feature selected by Cannes, A Town Called Panic follows the wacky and hilarious adventures of three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events. Zany, brainy and altogether insane-y! In French with subtitles.
“A proudly Calvinist work – I mean the comic strip character, not the philosopher.” – BOSTON GLOBE
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN NOT R aT ed • 105mi N • FR a NC e • 5/23 - 5/26 daily @ 7pm
Acclaimed French writer-director André Téchiné (Rendez-vous and Les voleurs) presents a thinly veiled fictionalization of events that took the European press by storm in 2004. Emilie Dequenne stars as Jeanne, an unemployed girl who lives with her mother (Catherine Deneuve) in a Parisian suburb and spends the majority of her free time rollerblading. She has little interest in history or politics but decides to fabricate a role for herself based on both, not thinking of the consequences that she may engender. Subtitled “A seductive drama.” – NEW YORK TIMES
Resonating with topical themes, this suspenseful political thriller from Roman Polanski is a story of deceit and betrayal. When a successful British ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), his agent assures him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start – his predecessor on the project died in an unfortunate accident. “an unusually astute glimpse of power at its most alluring and corrosive.” – WASHINGTON
ARMIDA (ROSSINI) • Sunday, May 2 • 1pm (delayed broadcast) • $27.50; 18 & under $15
This story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvorák. Renée Fleming stars opposite no fewer than six tenors.
SPONSORS: Rudi’s Portsmouth; Tate + Foss Sotheby’s International Realty
THe meT SeRieS SPONSORS: avery insurance; Classical 99.5 Boston
NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW
Director Jonathan Demme gives us some Neil Young musical and spiritual soul. Young on a stage full of personal icons – alone in the center of a circle of his beloved acoustic guitars; in the midst of stellar musicians Ben Keith, Ralph Molina, Rick Rosas, Pegi Young and Anthony “Sweet Pea” Crawford, plus an onstage painter. There are delicately offered acoustic numbers, mesmerizing electric travelogues into the artist’s psyche, searing, chaotic anthems, and rarely performed pieces. Young sings his heart out again and again. It is a collection for the
The Super Secret Project
The comedy team behind the YouTube sensation “Granite State of Mind” comes to The Music Hall
Saturday, May 22 • 7pm
Founders Lobby Lounge opens at 5:30pm
Meet & Greet after the show
$10 ($8 members)
Join us for this super special edition of Scene @ Five – so special, it’s at 7pm and in the theater! Masterminds of the viral video phenomenon “Granite State of Mind,” The Super Secret Project debuts their multimedia comedy show. Described as a “band that makes videos,” the Super Secret Project manages to mash up hip-hop and humor with a witty, sharp sensibility like no one else. On a mission to make videos “so you don’’t have to,” they like to push boundaries and are guaranteed to leave you laughing and nodding your head to their unique live performance. They are also very handsome
SPONSOR: Blue Mermaid Island Grill
