The Spirits of Christmas
MAA journey with the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, this dance-theater production for the whole family!
Full Moon Super Story Slam
MADecember’s Super Story Slam is our annual finale in which we invite all of our 2021 Full Moon Story Slam winners to tell us one more tale – this time a longer story focused around the theme – Grace.
A Nutcracker Panto
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesPresented in the traditional British panto style, this holiday send-up is a family friendly romp through Clara’s adventure with the Nutcracker, the battle with the Rat King, and more than likely a Tik Tok dance trend.
Firehouse Holiday Sing-a-long
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesFeaturing our MC and Head Elf Terry Blanchard, accompanist John Matrona, and perhaps a visit from Santa himself! May the spirit of the holidays warm your heart and home!
Theater Trivia Night – A Fundraiser
Sea Level Oyster Bar 1 Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesTaking place at Sea Level Oyster Bar, this trivia fundraiser will include 6 rounds of theater trivia spanning the last 100 years (or so). Enjoy the evening with some friends and let everyone know just how much YOU know.
Next to Normal
MADad's an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal.
Second Act Readers Theater presents THE LION IN WINTER
Firehouse Center for the Arts Market Square, Newburyport, MA, United StatesOur Second Act Readers Theater takes the stage to offer, The Lion in Winter, by James Goldman. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action – the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family, who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom.
Premonitions
MAThe show will feature new choreography, dance films (produced during Covid), and text by writers Blake Hammond, and Newburyport’s own Will Mombello. Special guest, award winning poet, Diannely Antigua, will be reading her work as well. Antigua’s poems have been described as "beautifully disturbing" and "dangerously alive”.
The Revolutionists
MAFour beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris.