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2020-02-07, 2020-02-08, 2020-02-09, 2020-02-13, 2020-02-14, 2020-02-15, 2020-02-16 | MA
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[title of show]
Music & Lyrics by Jeff Bowen | Book by Hunter Bell
Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends Susan, Heidi and Larry on the eighty-eights. With the cast in place, Jeff and Hunter begin a conversation about what to write about. Eventually, Jeff suggests they write about what to write about. They make a pact to write up until the festival’s deadline and dream about the show changing their lives. [title of show]—taken from the space on the festival’s application form which asks for the [title of show]—follows Hunter and Jeff and their friends on their journey through the gauntlet of creative self-expression. In the span of 90 minutes they write and perform their show at the festival and learn lessons about themselves as people, friends and artists. [title of show] is, above all, a love letter to the musical theatre—a uniquely American art form—and to the joy of collaboration. The musical received a Tony Award® nomination for Best Book of a Musical in 2009.

*Contains adult language.

CAST:

Jeff………James White
Hunter…..David Draper
Susan……Rachel Noland
Heidi…….Carli Hamilton
Larry….Justin Knowlton

CREATIVE TEAM:
Director- Joe Juknievich
Music Director- Justin Knowlton
Choreography- Kayleigh Kane
Costume Design- Amanda Olsen
Lighting Design- Brett Reis
Sound Engineer- Jacob Peavey
Set & Props Designer- Dan Mellitz

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Cult Classic Cabaret
2020-02-12 18:30 (America/New_York)
All proceeds benefit Entropy Theatre and Firehouse Center for the Arts
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Get ready for this rockin’ evening of song that celebrates some of the top hits from cult classic musicals! With a buffet meal of American-style classics provided by Sea Level Oyster Bar, and stellar performances from shows like Tony Award winner “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and Off-Broadway hits like “Heathers” and “Bat Boy”, this event is sure to please both die-hard cult classic fans and newbies alike!
Tickets are $50 and include dinner + the evening of entertainment

The Modernistics
2020-02-15 14:00
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The Modernistics are the acclaimed singing and tap-dancing team of Ted and Pamela Powers, with virtuoso jazz musicians Peter H. Bloom on flute, Mark Leighton on guitar, and Dave Zox on double-bass. The renowned quintet will provide an exhilarating tour of the Great American Songbook with music by Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, and other master tunesmiths. Crowd-pleasing songs and high-energy tap dance numbers will include Sunny Side of the Street, Paper Moon, Bye-Bye Blackbird, Georgia on My Mind, and It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing, plus sizzling bebop tunes by Dexter Gordon and Bud Powell.
Tickets $20 (*Firehouse Members get 10% off!)

Good & Kissed
2020-02-21 20:00
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Good & Kissed, written and performed by Miranda Jonte, is a one-woman-performance that tells the story of a woman who discovers her longtime boyfriend’s double life, and heads to an island off South Carolina with her family to heal, only to encounter a gorgeous paddle board instructor who reminds her that she is still very much alive.

“From the moment she steps on the stage, Jonte lives up to her self-titled billing as “teller of stories” — she is an accomplished story-teller who personally connected with each audience member, inviting us into her world and her very personal experience. Despite her brutal honesty and raw emotion, Jonte expertly walked the line of keeping her story personal without making us feel like intruders. She commanded her emotions flawlessly, making for a very compelling narrative.”
-Julie Janson, DC Metro

Tickets $15

Swamp Romp Mardi Gras
2020-02-22 11:00
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Johnette Downing and three-time Grammy® winner Scott Billington are the foremost children’s music performers from New Orleans. The special Swamp Romp program for Mardi Gras is a Louisiana dance party that brings the sounds of Cajun music, zydeco, traditional jazz, Isleño culture, swamp pop and New Orleans rhythm and blues to life for young ears– a toe-tapping, interactive, and authentic roots music experience that both children and parents will enjoy and long remember. Johnette’s gift for communicating with children is matched with smart musicianship and original songs that make this tour of Louisiana’s rich cultural landscape fun for all in attendance. Laissez le bon temps roulez!

Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts
2020-02-23 17:00
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The NBPT Docu Fest will be screening all five of the Academy Award® nominated short documentary films. A free wine, beer and cheese reception will begin at 5:00PM with the films screening at 6:00PM.
The films include:
In the Absence: When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims’ families and survivors are still demanding justice from national authorities. Watch the trailer.
Learning to Skateboard in a War Zone (If You’re a Girl): Over the course of 15 years, a class of young girls from disadvantaged neighborhoods in war-torn Kabul, learn to read and write, and grow together in confidence through the joy of skateboarding. Watch the trailer.
Life Overtakes Me: Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden who have fled with their families from extreme trauma in their home countries have become afflicted with Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months or even years. Watch the trailer.
St. Louis Superman: Bruce Franks Jr., a leading Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives, must overcome both personal trauma and political obstacles to pass a bill critical to his community. Watch the trailer.
Walk Run Cha-Cha: Chipaul and Millie Cao reunited in 1980s Los Angeles after being separated by the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they become ballroom dancers to reconnect again and make up for lost time. Watch the trailer.
Tickets are $20

Comedy Night!
2020-02-28 20:00
Get your daily dose of the best medicine– laughter! Fill your belly with laughs as three funny folks take the Firehouse stage!
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Tony V
Tony V is one on New England’s premier comedians with a resume that is unsurpassed. He is a regular in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and major club throughout North America and the Caribbean. Tony has appeared on Comedy Central, A & E’s “Evening at The Improve” and MTV Comedy. He has appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Tough Crowd,” with Colin Quinn, and he has been seen on “Seinfield,” “Boston Common,” and multiple films. Tony is also a past winner of Showtime’s Funniest Person in Massachusetts Award.

Kyle Crawford
A veteran on the Boston comedy scene, Kyle Crawford hails from southern New Hampshire. Growing up in a small NH town gives Kyle a unique outlook on everyday occurrences, you need a bit of an imagination to survive small town life, and that shines through in his act. Kyle has been on Comcast Comedy Spotlight, MCAM-TV and the Steve Katsos show. A “regular” guy that’s sure to touch on something for everyone, his quick wit and piercing observational material will leave you looking for more.

David Lamb
Born and raised in New York, Dave Lamb has been performing stand-up comedy in and around Boston for almost four years. He’s performed with some of the area’s best and up-and-coming acts, and was selected as a participant in the 2014 Boston Comedy Festival. While he has performed in clubs, bars, casinos, restaurants, and rec centers, he can most often be seen headlining a classroom every weekday at an area public school, where he learned how to deal with hecklers.

A Daughter's a Daughter - Scenes from Agatha Christie
2020-02-29 15:00
Tickets: $5
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On Sat Feb 29th we’re pleased to present the public performance from our Second Act Readers Theatre program! This fabulous group of adults age 55 and above will present scenes from Agatha Christie’s A DAUGHTER’S A DAUGHTER on the Firehouse stage at 3pm!
A fascinating, psychological portrayal of a mother and her only daughter and how their intense relationship unravels, Agatha Christie’s A DAUGHTER’S A DAUGHTER is not a mystery but rather a captivating family drama inspired from Christie’s own life. Join us for scenes from this rarely performed play by one of the world’s most beloved writers.
Christie is beady-eyed and brutally honest on the psychology of the mother-daughter relationship.
The Guardian
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
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WHM (Women's HerStory Month)- Celebrating Women: A Variety Show
2020-03-01 15:00
Sponsored by the Actors Studio of Newburyport.

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In the spirit of the Ed Sullivan and Carol Burnett Shows, the kick-off event will feature popular local performers, with Ms. Allyn Gamble as celebrity host. Enjoy music, dance, skits, and plenty of surprises! Guest artists include singer/songwriter Liz Frame and Boston Comedy Chicks’ Carolyn Plummer.

Tickets: $25; students and seniors $20; ages 12 and under $15

A Brit Of Magic
2020-03-04 19:00
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Lady Sarah and Keith Fields in A Brit Of Magic, Changing the world one laugh at a time.
How do we describe this show? We have no idea! But basically… A Brit Of Magic is a rollercoaster ride of fun and excitement from the get go! Lady Sarah is the quintessential English Lady who is aided and abetted (some would say hindered) by her husband, who just happens to be a world champion magician! And if it all turns to custard (as it probably will) they will make you a cup of tea!
This show is suitable for anybody who likes to laugh (and who doesn’t?) Comedy and magic explode onto the stage in this hilarious show. You will laugh and you will be amazed, and that’s guaranteed!

Tickets $10

Cold Spring Harbor
2020-03-05 19:00
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Cold Spring Harbor is a Billy Joel tribute band consisting of eight fantastic musicians, and great friends, from the North Shore Greater Boston area: Benjamin Eramo, Lead Singer/Pianist; Josh Heselton, Drummer; Andrew Pesaturo, Lead Guitarist; Jake Smith, Guitarist; Matthew Kelly, Aux. Keyboardist; Rob Macy, Bassist, Sean Godbout, Percussion; and a rotating saxophonist.
At any Cold Spring Harbor show, you can count on sold out performances with the crowd singing along and enjoying every second of their favorite timeless Billy Joel songs.

Pete Robbins Quintet
2020-03-06 20:00
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Newburyport resident and Massachusetts native Pete Robbins, an “industrious and venturesome alto saxophonist” (New York Times) leads his “ambitious ensemble that combines [jazz] with the melodic punch of rock” (New York Times) at his hometown venue, The Firehouse Center, for the first time on March 6, 2020. According to The Village Voice: “several of Robbins‘ tunes are flag-wavers, teeming with broad, catchy melodies…As a horn player, Robbins has a liquid timbre that can remind you just how pretty modern jazz can be.” Robbins will be accompanied by Downbeat magazine “Rising Star Saxophonist” and Boston-area resident Noah Preminger on tenor saxophone, New England Conservatory graduate Max Light on guitar, Bar Harbor native Kim Cass on bass, and one of The New York Times “Five Jazz Drummers To Watch” Dan Weiss on percussion.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
2020-03-13 - 2020-03-29, 2020-03-13, 2020-03-14, 2020-03-15, 2020-03-19, 2020-03-20, 2020-03-21, 2020-03-22
Please note: performances March 13 – 15 have been cancelled.
Firehouse Center for the Arts 2019-2020 Mainstage Production. In partnership with Seven Stages Shakespeare Company.
Tickets: $25
*Firehouse members receive a 10% discount
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Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning Best Play imagines the lives of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. As the story unfolds, they voice their confusion about the play that’s being performed without them, untangling bigger questions about life and death, reality and art. Written by Academy Award and four-time Best Play Tony Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, The Real Thing, and Arcadia), and directed by Seven Stages Shakespeare Company’s Co-Founder & Artistic Director Dan Beaulieu.
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ShakesBEERience NBPT: Hamlet
2020-03-16 18:30
Regrettably, ShakesBEERience NBPT: Hamlet has been postponed to support efforts to reduce the Coronavirus spread. We hope to hold this event in the coming weeks pending the status of COVID-19 and the best interests of the public health. As soon as we have more information, we’ll post it here and on our website!
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For one night only, Firehouse Center for the Arts is partnering with Seven Stages Shakespeare Company (7SSC) to bring their ultra-popular ShakesBEERience series to Newburyport! This FREE FOR ALL, Or Pay What You Will event will offer audience members the opportunity to experience Shakespeare’s Hamlet at Sea Level Oyster Bar on Monday, March 16 at 6:30PM. ShakesBEERience is 7SSC’s play reading program, now in its 8th Season. Using the vernacular of the bar, with script in one hand and libation in the other, actors navigate their way through Shakespeare’s plays while audiences are free to order dinner or drinks as the play happens around them. The goal is to unpack the language in a fun, unique and accessible way in an easy-going, and entertaining environment.

This event is timed during the run of the full production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Firehouse. Since the characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are all from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this ShakesBEERience event will offer audiences the real treat of seeing the same cast in both the full production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Firehouse, and the ShakesBEERience Hamlet event at Sea Level Oyster Bar.

This event is FREE FOR ALL, Or Pay What You Will (except, of course for the delish food & drinks from Sea Level Oyster Bar!) Whether you come for the whole reading, or can just stay for one scene- the ShakesBEERience you have is up to you!

Reserve your free ticket to attend, and we hope to see you on March 16th!

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NORTHSHORE PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE SERIES: A Wing and a Care
2020-03-25 19:00 - 20:30
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Lecture by Shawn Carey followed by Q&A
Co-sponsored by Sweethaven Gallery and Firehouse Center for the Arts
Adults ($10), Students ($5) Plus $2 processing charge.
Snowy Owls, Atlantic Puffins, and American Kestrels are connected by more than simply a resemblance of form or function. A crucial thread ties them together: each one has an advocate committed to protecting it and educating others about its plight. Migration Productions’ latest work, “A Wing And A Care,” opens a window onto the lives of these three birds, and introduces you to the men dedicated to their preservation and survival.
“A Wing And A Care” follows the stories of these three men as they work to protect the birds they love, and shows how a single individual can make a world of difference in the life of a bird. And it asks a critical question: how can each one of us get involved and help build a better future for these incredible birds?

Shawn Carey
Originally from Pennsylvania, Shawn moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1986 and has been photographing birds and other wildlife for over 20 years. He’s been teaching wildlife photography for Mass Audubon for the past 18 years. He’s on the board of directors for Eastern Mass HawkWatch where he serves as their Vice President. He’s also on the advisory board for the Massachusetts Audubon Society and Mass Audubon Museum of American Bird Art. He is past board member for the Brookline Bird Club and past council member for the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Shawn co-founded Migration Productions in 1996 with Jim Grady and the two have produced all its productions. Shawn also provides almost all digital photography used in their productions. “I LOVE the natural world; if it walks, crawls, flies, swims or slithers…I’ll photograph it!”
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