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SUMMARY:NORTHSHORE PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE SERIES: A.D Coleman
DESCRIPTION:Photo © 2018 Harris Fogel \nArt and Perturbation: Social Responsibility and the Photographer\nLecture followed by Q&A\nAdults ($10)\, Students ($5) Plus $2 processing charge. \nPurchase Tickets\n\n  \nExploring the question(s) of what social responsibility a photographer has\, using three examples: Jerry Uelsmann\, Robert Frank\, and W. Eugene Smith. \n\nCo-sponsored by Sweethaven Gallery and Firehouse Center for the Arts \n  \n A. D. Coleman has published 8 books and more than 2500 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice\, the New York Times\, and the New York Observer\, Coleman has contributed to such periodicals as ARTnews\, Art On Paper\, and Technology Review. His syndicated essays on mass media\, new communication technologies\, art\, and photography have been featured in such periodicals as Juliet Art Magazine(Italy)\, European Photography (Germany)\, and Art Today (China). His work has been translated into 21 languages and published in 31 countries. \nSince 1995\, Coleman has served as Publisher and Executive Director of The Nearby Café\, a multi-subject electronic magazine where his widely read blog on photography\, “Photocritic International\,” appears. He also founded and directs the Photography Criticism CyberArchive\, the most extensive online database ever created of writing about photography by authors past and present. With John Alley\, he co-directs The New Eyes Project\, an online resource for everyone teaching photography to young people. \nColeman — who lectures\, teaches and publishes widely both here and abroad — has appeared on NPR\, PBS\, CBS and the BBC. A Getty Museum Guest Scholar and a Fulbright Senior Scholar\, and a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Hasselblad Foundation\, he was honored in 1996 as the Ansel and Virginia Adams Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Creative Photography. \nAmerican Photo named Coleman one of “the 100 most important people in photography in 1998.” In 2002 he received the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society — the first critic of photography ever so honored. In 2010 he received the J. Dudley Johnston Award for “lifetime achievement in writing about photography\,” from the Royal Photographic Society (UK). In 2014 he received the Insight Award from the Society for Photographic Education. In 2015 he received the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) Award for Research About Journalism\, as well as The Photo Review Award for Outstanding Contributions to Photography. \nColeman’s first major curatorial effort\, Saga: the Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen\, made its debut in both book and exhibition form in September 2005 and now tours internationally. A second museum-scale curatorial project\, China: Insights\, premiered in spring 2008 and continues to tour the U.S. He also curates smaller exhibitions for such venues as See+ Art Space/Gallery in Beijing and the Dali International Photography Exhibition in Dali\, China. Since 2005\, exhibitions that Coleman has curated have opened at museums and galleries in Canada\, China\, Finland\, Italy\, Rumania\, Slovakia\, and the U.S. \nIn 2018 Coleman celebrated 50 years of continuous production as working critic\, historian\, and theorist. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/a-d-coleman/
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SUMMARY:Steve Sweeney
DESCRIPTION:With Sean Sullivan\n\n\nPurchase Tickets\n\nDubbed by one admirer “the undisputed King of Boston comedy\,” Sweeney embodies\, almost literally\, the city he calls home. A master of dialects and character voices\, Sweeney can riff on everyone from Dorchester church ladies to Beacon Hill pols to certain radio personalities who seem a little too old to be peddling rock and roll to younger generations. In fact\, while Sweeney has played to national audiences many times throughout his thirty-year career – not only by touring as a stand-up but also through roles in sitcoms and movies – he is so thoroughly Bostonian that he merits his own stop on the Freedom Trail.
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/steve-sweeney/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Deep Blue C Studio Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nComposers and Their Songs\nfrom Bernstein to Lennon and McCartney \nThe 17 piece Deep Blue C Studio Orchestra will perform for you some of the best music ever written paying tribute to many of the greatest composers in the history of  popular song. Enjoy the artistry of Gershwin\, Paul Simon\, Henry Mancini\, Smokey Robinson\, John Williams and more! In one night with five different vocalists\, a string section\, horn section and more you will get to hear music that is rarely heard today by an exceptional orchestra like this! You will hear songs like Moon River\, Stand By Me\, Star Wars\, Eleanor Rigby\, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow\, and I’ve Got Rhythm. You don’t want to miss this magical program and amazing orchestra! \nTake a listen!\n\n\n\nCheck out Deep Blue C Studio Orchestra’s website here \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/deep-blue-c-studio-orchestra/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Preparing for Retirement
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend a special seminar\, Preparing for Retirement\, hosted by local financial advisor and Firehouse sponsor\, Nathaniel Tilton\, of Tilton Wealth Management.  The evening will include light hors d’oeuvres and wine\, and will be conducted in the NAID (upstairs) lobby of the Firehouse Center for the Arts.  The presentation will help answer the Who?\, What?\, When?\, How? and How Much? questions that everyone preparing for retirement should ask. \n  \nReserve Your Spot\n\nPresented by: \nNathaniel J. Tilton\, CFP®\, AIF® \nTilton Wealth Management \n10 Inn Street \nNewburyport\, MA 01950 \n(781) 890-6484 \nwww.tiltonwm.com \n  \nSecurities and advisory services offered by Commonwealth Financial Network®\, Member FINRA/SIPC\, a Registered Investment Adviser.   \n 
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/preparing-for-retirement/
LOCATION:MA
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SUMMARY:Magic Dick and Shun Ng in Concert
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nMagic Dick\, the legendary harmonica player for Boston’s legendary J. Geils Band has recently partnered up with guitar and vocal sensation\, Shun Ng\, to create one of the most dynamic musical acts to come out of Boston in a long time. \nSince 1969\, MagicDick has toured the world playing and blowing away clubs and stadiums with the J. Geils Band. He says” From the moment I first heard Shun Ng’s CD “Funky Thumb Stuff” I knew that a manifest musical collaboration was about to happen. Shun’s sound simply made me feel very alive and induced in me a synchronous alignment of musical DNA as if it was his intention as well as mine all along! I helped it along by asking his manager\, Ralph Jaccodine to introduce us at his office. A long and enlightening conversation happened on that day of our first meeting and now we are a duo and I couldn’t be more delighted.” \nShun Ng was born in Chicago\, raised in Singapore now based out of Boston. At 24 years old\, he is already an international star\, a soulful\, world-class guitarist\, vocalist\, and electric performer who in a short period of time\, has caught the attention of the top players in the music world including Quincy Jones who said: “When you see Shun Ng\, you won’t believe your eyes nor your ears – he belies all stereotypes\, all premonitions. I was simply blown away by both his soul and his science – his creativity and his uniqueness is astounding.” \n“In this collaboration with Magic Dick\,” Shun says\, “we wanted to make music in a way that no one had quite done before while remaining grounded in our roots. Magic Dick brings a powerhouse attack with ferocious precision and a killer groove to this duo. I have great respect for him\, he has seemingly done it all\, but is still constantly trying to push the boundaries of music and chase the best in himself\, a true artist. To be working with a true Boston legend is a real privilege.” \nJoin us for an unforgettable night of live music on the Firehouse stage! \nTake a listen!\n\n\n\nCheck out Magic Dick’s website here   \nCheck out Shun Ng’s website here \n  \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/magic-dick-and-shun-ng-in-concert/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
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SUMMARY:Conflict of Interest
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nTickets: $25 (Firehouse members receive a 10% discount) \nPresented in partnership with the Actors Studio of Newburyport \nA Musical by Ellie Lee \nDirected by Anna Smulowitz \nConflict of Interest is an upbeat dramedy about love\, ambition\, and competing agendas. As two young women fall in love\, their widowed parents tiptoe onto Cupid’s path. It’s the 1980’s and\, while girl meets girl\, woman meets man\, presenting the timeless question: will love triumph? The boss\, the business\, the lease\, the colleague\, the dance school – all present potential obstacles to the course of true love. This engaging musical has an important message to share and delivers it with toe tapping zeal. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/conflict-of-interest/2019-10-04/1/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191005
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SUMMARY:Conflict of Interest
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nTickets: $25 (Firehouse members receive a 10% discount) \nPresented in partnership with the Actors Studio of Newburyport \nA Musical by Ellie Lee \nDirected by Anna Smulowitz \nConflict of Interest is an upbeat dramedy about love\, ambition\, and competing agendas. As two young women fall in love\, their widowed parents tiptoe onto Cupid’s path. It’s the 1980’s and\, while girl meets girl\, woman meets man\, presenting the timeless question: will love triumph? The boss\, the business\, the lease\, the colleague\, the dance school – all present potential obstacles to the course of true love. This engaging musical has an important message to share and delivers it with toe tapping zeal. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/conflict-of-interest/2019-10-04/2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater
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SUMMARY:Conflict of Interest
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nTickets: $25 (Firehouse members receive a 10% discount) \nPresented in partnership with the Actors Studio of Newburyport \nA Musical by Ellie Lee \nDirected by Anna Smulowitz \nConflict of Interest is an upbeat dramedy about love\, ambition\, and competing agendas. As two young women fall in love\, their widowed parents tiptoe onto Cupid’s path. It’s the 1980’s and\, while girl meets girl\, woman meets man\, presenting the timeless question: will love triumph? The boss\, the business\, the lease\, the colleague\, the dance school – all present potential obstacles to the course of true love. This engaging musical has an important message to share and delivers it with toe tapping zeal. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/conflict-of-interest/2019-10-06/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater
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SUMMARY:Conflict of Interest
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nTickets: $25 (Firehouse members receive a 10% discount) \nPresented in partnership with the Actors Studio of Newburyport \nA Musical by Ellie Lee \nDirected by Anna Smulowitz \nConflict of Interest is an upbeat dramedy about love\, ambition\, and competing agendas. As two young women fall in love\, their widowed parents tiptoe onto Cupid’s path. It’s the 1980’s and\, while girl meets girl\, woman meets man\, presenting the timeless question: will love triumph? The boss\, the business\, the lease\, the colleague\, the dance school – all present potential obstacles to the course of true love. This engaging musical has an important message to share and delivers it with toe tapping zeal. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/conflict-of-interest/2019-10-10/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191012
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SUMMARY:Conflict of Interest
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nTickets: $25 (Firehouse members receive a 10% discount) \nPresented in partnership with the Actors Studio of Newburyport \nA Musical by Ellie Lee \nDirected by Anna Smulowitz \nConflict of Interest is an upbeat dramedy about love\, ambition\, and competing agendas. As two young women fall in love\, their widowed parents tiptoe onto Cupid’s path. It’s the 1980’s and\, while girl meets girl\, woman meets man\, presenting the timeless question: will love triumph? The boss\, the business\, the lease\, the colleague\, the dance school – all present potential obstacles to the course of true love. This engaging musical has an important message to share and delivers it with toe tapping zeal. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/conflict-of-interest/2019-10-11/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
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SUMMARY:Charlotte's Web
DESCRIPTION:Our Project Sparx Teen Ensemble presents Charlotte’s Web!\nTickets: $15 for adults\, $12 for 12 and under \nPurchase Tickets\n\nOverview\nThe Children’s Literature Association named this “the best American children’s book of the past two hundred years\,” and Joseph Robinette\, working with the advice of E.B. White\, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. All the enchanting characters are here in this non-musical tale: Wilbur\, the irresistible young pig who desperately wants to avoid the butcher; Fern\, a girl who understands what animals say to each other; Templeton\, the gluttonous rat who can occasionally be talked into a good deed; the Zuckerman family; the Arables; and\, most of all\, the extraordinary spider\, Charlotte\, who proves to be “a true friend and a good writer.” Determined to save Wilbur\, Charlotte begins her campaign with the “miracle” of her web in which she writes\, “Some pig.” It’s the beginning of a victorious campaign which ultimately ends with the now-safe Wilbur doing what is most important to Charlotte. \n  \nWhat Is Teen Ensemble Outreach?\nFor many years\, the Firehouse has put on four productions per year as a School Show Series\, for students in the Greater Newburyport Area school systems to attend as part of their curriculum. This will be the first of our Project Sparx Outreach Productions\, where the Teen Ensemble will be performing one of those shows for local students. In addition to public performances\, we will have two Wednesday morning school performances. Documentation will be provided to send to your school to assist in being released for that day. This is an excellent opportunity for our Sparx teens to be a positive influence on elementary and middle school age children and provide inspiration to the next generation of artists. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/charlottes-web/2019-10-12/1/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater,Youth
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191013
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SUMMARY:Charlotte's Web
DESCRIPTION:Our Project Sparx Teen Ensemble presents Charlotte’s Web!\nTickets: $15 for adults\, $12 for 12 and under \nPurchase Tickets\n\nOverview\nThe Children’s Literature Association named this “the best American children’s book of the past two hundred years\,” and Joseph Robinette\, working with the advice of E.B. White\, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. All the enchanting characters are here in this non-musical tale: Wilbur\, the irresistible young pig who desperately wants to avoid the butcher; Fern\, a girl who understands what animals say to each other; Templeton\, the gluttonous rat who can occasionally be talked into a good deed; the Zuckerman family; the Arables; and\, most of all\, the extraordinary spider\, Charlotte\, who proves to be “a true friend and a good writer.” Determined to save Wilbur\, Charlotte begins her campaign with the “miracle” of her web in which she writes\, “Some pig.” It’s the beginning of a victorious campaign which ultimately ends with the now-safe Wilbur doing what is most important to Charlotte. \n  \nWhat Is Teen Ensemble Outreach?\nFor many years\, the Firehouse has put on four productions per year as a School Show Series\, for students in the Greater Newburyport Area school systems to attend as part of their curriculum. This will be the first of our Project Sparx Outreach Productions\, where the Teen Ensemble will be performing one of those shows for local students. In addition to public performances\, we will have two Wednesday morning school performances. Documentation will be provided to send to your school to assist in being released for that day. This is an excellent opportunity for our Sparx teens to be a positive influence on elementary and middle school age children and provide inspiration to the next generation of artists. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/charlottes-web/2019-10-12/2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater,Youth
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191013
DTSTAMP:20260403T195044
CREATED:20190819T201313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T172041Z
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SUMMARY:Conflict of Interest
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nTickets: $25 (Firehouse members receive a 10% discount) \nPresented in partnership with the Actors Studio of Newburyport \nA Musical by Ellie Lee \nDirected by Anna Smulowitz \nConflict of Interest is an upbeat dramedy about love\, ambition\, and competing agendas. As two young women fall in love\, their widowed parents tiptoe onto Cupid’s path. It’s the 1980’s and\, while girl meets girl\, woman meets man\, presenting the timeless question: will love triumph? The boss\, the business\, the lease\, the colleague\, the dance school – all present potential obstacles to the course of true love. This engaging musical has an important message to share and delivers it with toe tapping zeal. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/conflict-of-interest/2019-10-12/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
DTSTAMP:20260403T195044
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190917T144444Z
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SUMMARY:Charlotte's Web
DESCRIPTION:Our Project Sparx Teen Ensemble presents Charlotte’s Web!\nTickets: $15 for adults\, $12 for 12 and under \nPurchase Tickets\n\nOverview\nThe Children’s Literature Association named this “the best American children’s book of the past two hundred years\,” and Joseph Robinette\, working with the advice of E.B. White\, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. All the enchanting characters are here in this non-musical tale: Wilbur\, the irresistible young pig who desperately wants to avoid the butcher; Fern\, a girl who understands what animals say to each other; Templeton\, the gluttonous rat who can occasionally be talked into a good deed; the Zuckerman family; the Arables; and\, most of all\, the extraordinary spider\, Charlotte\, who proves to be “a true friend and a good writer.” Determined to save Wilbur\, Charlotte begins her campaign with the “miracle” of her web in which she writes\, “Some pig.” It’s the beginning of a victorious campaign which ultimately ends with the now-safe Wilbur doing what is most important to Charlotte. \n  \nWhat Is Teen Ensemble Outreach?\nFor many years\, the Firehouse has put on four productions per year as a School Show Series\, for students in the Greater Newburyport Area school systems to attend as part of their curriculum. This will be the first of our Project Sparx Outreach Productions\, where the Teen Ensemble will be performing one of those shows for local students. In addition to public performances\, we will have two Wednesday morning school performances. Documentation will be provided to send to your school to assist in being released for that day. This is an excellent opportunity for our Sparx teens to be a positive influence on elementary and middle school age children and provide inspiration to the next generation of artists. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/charlottes-web/2019-10-13/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater,Youth
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
DTSTAMP:20260403T195044
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T172041Z
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SUMMARY:Conflict of Interest
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nTickets: $25 (Firehouse members receive a 10% discount) \nPresented in partnership with the Actors Studio of Newburyport \nA Musical by Ellie Lee \nDirected by Anna Smulowitz \nConflict of Interest is an upbeat dramedy about love\, ambition\, and competing agendas. As two young women fall in love\, their widowed parents tiptoe onto Cupid’s path. It’s the 1980’s and\, while girl meets girl\, woman meets man\, presenting the timeless question: will love triumph? The boss\, the business\, the lease\, the colleague\, the dance school – all present potential obstacles to the course of true love. This engaging musical has an important message to share and delivers it with toe tapping zeal. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/conflict-of-interest/2019-10-13/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater
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SUMMARY:The Rat Pack Undead
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nTHE RAT PACK UNDEAD – Direct from NYC!  \nOne thing’s for sure\, they may be dead\, but their voices aren’t!  \nFrank Sinatra\, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. are back in the spotlight\, back from the dead crooning their hearts out for the literally undead show that critics have raved blew them away and left them wanting more. Having come back from the dead\, The Pack adds a spookish spin to their biggest hits\, changing up their lyrics to honor their undead lifestyles. More comical than creepy\, more entertaining than eerie\, you’ll hear all of your favorite Rat Pack tunes with an “undead” twist\, including “Come Die With Me\,” “Ly Me in the Tomb”\, “What Kind of Ghoul Am I?”\, and many more! \n“Rat Pack Undead BLEW US AWAY!”  \n – Claridge Hotel\, Atlantic City \n“It left us wanting more”  \n– Marilyn Miller\, former girlfriend of Frank Sinatra \n“Truly fine incarnations of the stars”  \n– AndyB Sports & More Reporter \nCreated & Produced by Cooper Jordan\nMusically Directed by Michael Thomas Murray\nChoreographed by Avital Asuleen\nLyrics by Cooper Jordan & Grant Bowen \nCheck it out!\n\n\n\n  \n  \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/the-rat-pack-undead/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195044
CREATED:20190924T163600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T163600Z
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SUMMARY:Beetlejuice
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: $10* \n*Firehouse members receive a 10% discount \nPurchase Tickets\n\nWhat’s a couple of stay-at-home ghosts to do when their beloved home is taken over by trendy yuppies? They call on Beetlejuice\, the afterlife’s freelance bio-exorcist to scare off the family – and everyone gets more than she\, he or it bargains for! \nTim Burton guides this 1988 comedy “monsterpiece” whose stars include Alec Baldwin\, Geena Davis and Winona Ryder\, with Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice\, the ghost with the most who flings one-liners\, spins into grotesque forms\, gobbles insects\, and who just can’t leave the ladies (living or dead) alone. \nView the trailer: \n \n\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/beetlejuice/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Film,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191025T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195044
CREATED:20190924T164913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T164913Z
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SUMMARY:The Rocky Horror Picture Show
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: $15* \n*Firehouse members receive a 10% discount \nPurchase Tickets\n\nIn this cult classic\, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon)\, stuck with a flat tire during a storm\, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry)\, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost\, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters\, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs\, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.” \nProp bags are included with your ticket! \nView the trailer: \n \n  \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/the-rocky-horror-picture-show/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191027T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195044
CREATED:20190926T135808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T135854Z
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SUMMARY:Second Act Readers Theater - Fall Showcase of Neil Simon
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: $5 \nPurchase Tickets\n\nSmart\, funny\, and enduring\, Neil Simon’s plays have entertained theater audiences for decades. Our showcase of scenes includes a diva preparing for the Oscars from California Suite. The frustration between two roommates\, one a slob and the other a neat freak from The Odd Couple (Female version). A woman just out of rehab floundering with what’s next from The Gingerbread Lady. A New York City couple who just discovered that their apartment has been burglarized from The Prisoner of Second Avenue.  Come join in the hilarious magic of Neil Simon! \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/second-act-readers-theater-fall-showcase-of-neil-simon/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195044
CREATED:20190613T161046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190802T155112Z
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SUMMARY:Los Straitjackets
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nViva Los Straitjackets! Using the music of the Ventures\, The Shadows\, and with Link Wray and Dick Dale as a jumping off point\, the band has taken their unique\, high energy brand of original rock & roll around the world. Clad in their trademark Lucha Libre Mexican wrestling masks\, the “Jackets” have delivered their trademark guitar licks to 16 albums\, thousands of concerts and dozens of films and TV shows. Their most recent album “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace Love and Los Straitjackets” consists of instrumental covers of Nick Lowe Songs. \nCheck out their latest EP\, Channel Surfing\, just released in June!\n \nIf you like…\n\nThe Aqua Velvets\nThe Ventures\nThe Space Cossacks\nDick Dale and his Del-Tones\n\nYou’ll like Los Straitjackets \nCheck out Los Straitjackets’ website here \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/los-straightjackets/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191101T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191101T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190613T165026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190802T154323Z
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SUMMARY:John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band (J2B2)
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nJ2B2 is an all-star bluegrass supergroup featuring four legendary\, award-winning musicians – John Jorgenson on acoustic guitar\, mandolin and vocals; Herb Pedersen on banjo\, acoustic guitar and vocals; Mark Fain on bass; and Patrick Sauber on acoustic guitar and vocals – delivering bluegrass like no one has ever heard it before. The band’s undeniable live shows have received stellar reviews and have the bluegrass world buzzing. The four combine forces to form a spot-on union of impeccable musicianship\, incomparable songwriting\, incredible harmony vocals (a fresh twist combining bluegrass with elements of West Coast folk rock) and seasoned showmanship. This is the “high lonesome sound” of American roots music at its finest. \nCheck them out!\n\n \nCheck out their website here  \n  \n\n\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/john-jorgenson-bluegrass-band-j2b2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191102T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191102T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190613T165426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190920T143604Z
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SUMMARY:Soggy Po' Boys
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\n“..with all the ebullience and spirit that’s the stuff of life. Eat up.” – Debbie Burke \nThe Soggy Po’ Boys are a New England-based septet that offers an unforgettable experience of traditional New Orleans music. Come out to celebrate the release of their new album “All In Favor” and bask in the rich New Orleans-inspired sound. \nBorn on a snowy Fat Tuesday night of 2012\, the Soggy Po’ Boys have been honing their craft of New Orleans’ music in their Tuesday residency in their home town of Dover\, New Hampshire. The New Orleans flavored septet doesn’t just play their weekly gig and call it at that. No\, they fit in more than a hundred shows every year\, from festivals and concerts to politics-infused burlesque collaborations and street parades. Part of the beauty of New Orleans music is that it’s celebrated and appreciated wherever it goes\, from the street to the theater. The Po’ Boys are doing their part to spread the greatest music on earth around their home in New England and when touring\, throughout the rest of the country. The Soggy Po’ Boys serve their jazz messy\, mixing brass-fueled mayhem with spirituals\, Meters-style old-school funk\, and the Caribbean side of the New Orleans tradition. \nCheck out their 2018 album\, Smoke!\n \nIf you like…\n\nFeline & Strange\nAbel Maxwell\nFrancesco Castaldo\nBlue Sky 5+2\n\nYou’ll like Soggy Po’ Boys \nCheck out Soggy Po’ Boys’ website here \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/soggy-po-boys/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191110T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190613T165755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190718T175108Z
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SUMMARY:Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nSonny Landreth: \nThe lean Mississippi native\, who grew up in Lafayette\, Louisiana\, had already been playing horn for three years when he got his hands on his first six-string and fell deeply in love. Slide guitar spoke to Landreth immediately. He recalls\, “When I realized that my slide heroes had mastered a vocal quality on the guitar\, I wanted to do the same thing. At the start\, the sounds I made were rough on everybody – my family\, and especially my poor dog and cat – but eventually I was able to develop my own instrumental voice and began to apply that to any style I wanted to play.” \nAt age 17 Landreth attended three very different shows in his home state that would have a great impact on him. “Amazingly\, in the span of about a year\, I met and heard B.B. King in New Iberia\, Jimi Hendrix in Baton Rouge and Clifton Chenier in Lafayette. Needless to say\, all that had a profound effect on me. To this day\, I still think about those experiences.” Many years later\, he became a member of Chenier’s Red Hot Louisiana Band. With steamy roadhouse sets that often ran for hours without a break and stretched songs out for their maximum impact on the dance floor\, he was put to the test. Landreth quickly developed the ability to change keys\, rhythms and even musical styles in a flash. \nAlong the way Landreth has continued to develop his vision and his musical voice\, growing increasingly original and diverse\, expanding from blues\, zydeco\, folk\, country and jazz into increasingly category-blurring musical excursions like Bound By the Blues. \nCindy Cashdollar:
  \nDobro\, steel guitar and lap steel player Cindy Cashdollar’s career has taken some surprising twists and turns that have led her to work with many leading artists in various genres; including Ryan Adams\, Bob Dylan\, Van Morrison\, Dave Alvin\, Rod Stewart\, Albert Lee\, Asleep At The Wheel\, Marcia Ball\, Jorma Kaukonen\, Leon Redbone\, BeauSoleil\, Daniel Lanois\, Redd Volkaert\, & Peter Rowan. Cindy’s unerring ability to perfectly complement a song or step out with a tasteful\, imaginative\, and exciting solo – and to do it in so many musical genres – has made her one of the most in-demand musicians on the American roots music scene. Her debut CD\, “Slide Show”\, features guest artists comprising a Who’s Who from the landscape of Roots & Americana music. Cindy was inducted into the Texas Steel Guitar Hall Of Fame in 2011 (the first female to be inducted)\, and The Texas Music Hall Of Fame in 2012 \nCindy first heard the unique sliding sound of the Dobro in her hometown of Woodstock\, New York where she honed her skills playing with bluegrass legend John Herald\, blues great Paul Butterfield\, Levon Helm and Rick Danko of The Band\, and many others who lived in the small but musically hip Catskill mountain town. Eight years and thousands of miles on the road with the premier western swing group Asleep At The Wheel helped her introduce the classic sounds of the non-pedal steel to enthusiastic audiences worldwide\, and brought her five Grammy Awards and opportunities to work with musicians of the caliber of Willie Nelson\, Merle Haggard\, Dolly Parton and The Dixie Chicks. \nWhether adding driving leads behind Rod Stewart or Ryan Adams\, swinging an instrumental with Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion band\, or trading blazing licks with Texas Telecaster master Redd Volkaert\, Cindy does it all with grace\, imagination\, and taste. And\, in answer to her most frequently asked question\, yes\, Cashdollar is a real name. \nTake a listen!\n\n\n\nCheck out Sonny’s website here \nCheck out Cindy’s website here \n  \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/sonny-landreth-and-cindy-cashdollar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191118
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190919T144108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190919T155711Z
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SUMMARY:Aladdin KIDS
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS: $10 \nPurchase Tickets\n\nBased on the iconic animated film\, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken\, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice\, Disney’s Aladdin KIDS is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure. \nWhen the street urchin\, Aladdin\, vies for the attention of the beautiful princess\, Jasmine\, he uses a genie’s magic power to become a prince in order to marry her.  Iago\, Jafar\, the Genie\, and more are here in Disney’s Aladdin KIDS\, a musical adventure filled with magic\, mayhem and the power of love. Specific to Disney’s Aladdin KIDS are the Djinn\, a group of unique stage magicians who execute the magical moments of the show. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/aladdin-kids/2019-11-16/1/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater,Youth
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191117
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190919T144108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190919T155711Z
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SUMMARY:Aladdin KIDS
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS: $10 \nPurchase Tickets\n\nBased on the iconic animated film\, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken\, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice\, Disney’s Aladdin KIDS is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure. \nWhen the street urchin\, Aladdin\, vies for the attention of the beautiful princess\, Jasmine\, he uses a genie’s magic power to become a prince in order to marry her.  Iago\, Jafar\, the Genie\, and more are here in Disney’s Aladdin KIDS\, a musical adventure filled with magic\, mayhem and the power of love. Specific to Disney’s Aladdin KIDS are the Djinn\, a group of unique stage magicians who execute the magical moments of the show. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/aladdin-kids/2019-11-16/2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater,Youth
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191118
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190919T144108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190919T155711Z
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SUMMARY:Aladdin KIDS
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS: $10 \nPurchase Tickets\n\nBased on the iconic animated film\, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken\, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice\, Disney’s Aladdin KIDS is sure to send audiences soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure. \nWhen the street urchin\, Aladdin\, vies for the attention of the beautiful princess\, Jasmine\, he uses a genie’s magic power to become a prince in order to marry her.  Iago\, Jafar\, the Genie\, and more are here in Disney’s Aladdin KIDS\, a musical adventure filled with magic\, mayhem and the power of love. Specific to Disney’s Aladdin KIDS are the Djinn\, a group of unique stage magicians who execute the magical moments of the show. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/aladdin-kids/2019-11-17/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Theater,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191117T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190930T205217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T210119Z
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SUMMARY:Front Country
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: $15*\n*Firehouse members receive a 10% discount \nPurchase Tickets\n\nIt wasn’t a given that these musicians would wind up in anything remotely resembling a bluegrass band. Singer Melody Walker got into world music and belted out roots-rock. Bassist Jeremy Darrow studied jazz. Leif Karlstrom trained as a classical violinist\, and still prefers that title to “fiddle player.” Mandolinist Adam Roszkiewicz studied classical guitar at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. \nIn the bluegrass world\, musicians tend to define themselves by their relationships to tradition — specifically\, the tradition of high-and-lonesome singing and a hard-driving sound. There are regional variations from Virginia to Colorado. The West Coast has its own freewheeling tradition\, and that’s where Front Country started out: at a monthly jam in San Francisco. Then its members heard about a band contest at a bluegrass festival. \n“And we ended up winning that band competition\,” Walker says. “The very next day\, I made a website for the band because I thought maybe people will be Googling Front Country at that point\, possibly.” \nFrom that point on\, Front Country was a serious band. \nHave a listen: \n \nIf you like…\n\nThe Travelin’ McCourys\nHoneysuckle\nThe Steel Wheels\nDella Mae\n\nYou’ll like Front Country. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/front-country/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190815T141029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191008T134511Z
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SUMMARY:NORTHSHORE PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE SERIES: Rania Matar
DESCRIPTION:Photo © 2018 Rania Matar \nLecture followed by Q&A\nCo-sponsored by Sweethaven Gallery and Firehouse Center for the Arts \n Adults ($10)\, Students ($5) Plus $2 processing charge. \nPurchase Tickets\n\n  \nPhoto © Dominic Chavez \n\n\nFrom Personal to Universal – Photographs by Rania Matar\n\nAs a Lebanese-born American woman and mother has dedicated her artistic practice to exploring both sides of her cultural background\, cross-cultural experience\, and personal narrative\, in addressing issues of personal and collective identity\, through photographing girls and women both in the United States where she lives and in the Middle East where she is from.Throughout her work\, and by making intimate portraits of girls and women\, she seeks to focus on our essence\, our physicality and on the commonalities that make us human\, to emphasize underlying similarities rather than apparent differences. Her photographs reveal the beauty in our shared humanity – in the universal as well as personal experience of women encountering the challenges of growing up regardless of background\, culture and religion.\n\n\nMatar was a recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. \n\nRAFFLE\nThere will be a raffle at the end of the lecture for: \nA Girl and Her Room\nPublished by UMBRAGE EDITIONS\nEssays by SUSAN MINOT and ANNE TUCKER \n1 ticket for $1  —  5 tickets for $4  —  10 tickets for $8\n \n \nAbout the book\nAward-winning photographer Rania Matar’s A Girl and Her Room reveals the lives of girls from two disparate worlds – The U.S. and Lebanon. Set in the girls’ bedrooms – which range from spartan cleanliness to chaotic disarray – these portraits offer an insider’s perspective of not just who these young women are\, but the physical spaces that prove to be extensions of their identities. \nA Girl and Her Room is RANIA MATAR’s second book. Her first book\, Ordinary Lives\, was published in 2009. \nSUSAN MINOT’s first novel\, Monkeys\, was published in a dozen countries and received the Prix Femina Étranger in France. She is the author of Rapture\, Lust & Other Stories\, Folly\, Evening\, and Poems 4 A.M.\, and wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty. \nANNE TUCKER is the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, a department she founded in 1976\, and has authored a number of books. \n \nMay 2012 • ISBN 978-1-884167-76-8 • UMBRAGE EDITIONS • Hardcover • 9 x 12 inches • 140 pages • color photographs \n\n\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/rania-matar/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190614T165253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190815T154421Z
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SUMMARY:Loudon Wainwright III
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nWhether in front of a camera or behind a guitar\, Wainwright has the ability to touch\, move\, and inspire his audience. From the hilariously novel to the heartbreaking and brutally honest autobiographical\, he brings tears to the eyes of his fans\, one way or another. We are very excited to have this Grammy winner grace our stage. \nBorn in North Carolina in 1946\, his career began in the late 1960’s. Using a witty\, self-mocking style\, Wainwright has recorded albums on eleven different labels and has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards\, winning in 2010 for Best Traditional Folk Album. Besides music\, Wainwright is probably most well known for his role as the “singing surgeon” on the television show\, M*A*S*H\, as well as roles in popular films\, Big Fish and Knocked Up. \nThis is one show that we can’t wait for! \nCheck out his latest album\, Surviving Twin!\n \nIf you like…\n\nTownes Van Zandt\nLucinda Williams\nTom Rush\nChris Smither\n\nYou’ll like Loudon Wainwright III \nVisit Loudon’s website here \n                   \n  \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/loudon-wainwright-iii/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T195045
CREATED:20190828T194913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T231331Z
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SUMMARY:Melissa Ferrick
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets\n\nMs. Ferrick is currently a Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University. She’s released seventeen albums over the last twenty-five years and has won numerous awards for songwriting\, production\, and performance. From 2013 – 2019\, Melissa was an Associate Professor of Songwriting at Berklee College of Music. Ms. Ferrick holds an Ed.M from Harvard University. \nSigned to Atlantic Records in 1992 at the age of 21\, after opening up for Morrissey in the US and UK\, she released her debut and sophomore albums on Atlantic before moving on to Independent label W.A.R. Records between 1996-1999. In 2000 Ms. Ferrick launched her nationally distributed independent record label Right On Records; she has released 17 albums over the last 24 years. \nRegarded in the industry and by her peers as one of the most prolific and hardworking artists in the business\, Ferrick still tours regularly playing throughout North America. She has shared the stage with Morrissey\, Joan Armatrading\, Weezer\, Tegan and Sara\, Mark Cohen\, Paul Westerberg\, Bob Dylan\, John Hiatt\, Ani DiFranco\, k.d.Lang\, Suzanne Vega\, Shawn Colvin\, and many others. \nCheck out her 2010 album: \n \nIf you like…\n\nDar Williams\nIndigo Girls\nAni DiFranco\nShawn Colvin\n\nYou’ll like Melissa Ferrick. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://firehouse.org/event/melissa-ferrick/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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