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Voted 2009 Best New Venue by New Hampshire Magazine. A hip, intimate, club-style atmosphere where inventive music and theater are the main course. Seating is general admission. Cash bar and a variety of concessions available. Sponsored by 92.5 The River, Rath, Young & Pignatelli, Pierce Law, Orr & Reno and NHTI. Funding provided by the NH State Council on the Arts.
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Writers in the Spotlight Series. Join National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Franzen at the Spotlight Café as he discusses his new novel, Freedom. Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two collections of essays, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by FSG. He lives in New York City.
Show times:
Thu, September 9, 2010 7:00 PM
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| 7 Deadly Sins Festival |
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Presented by Ghostlight Theater Company. A juried festival of 14 one-act plays, presented over two nights, by some of New England’s finest playwrights. Each play relates to one of the traditional deadly sins, so be prepared for much pride, wrath, avarice, lust, sloth, gluttony and envy!
Show times:
Sat, September 18, 2010 7:30 PM
Sun, September 19, 2010 7:30 PM
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| Cambridge Footlights |
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The Cambridge Footlights are to British comedy what troupes like Second City and Chicago City Limits are to American comedy. The 127-year-old Cambridge Footlights kick-started the careers of such stars as Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, Emma Thompson, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Douglas Adams.
Show times:
Thu, September 23, 2010 7:30 PM
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| THE PILLOWMAN |
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THE PILLOWMAN, written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, was the winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2004. Katurian, a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state, is interrogated by two bulldogish detectives, Tupolski and Ariel, regarding missing-children cases that resemble his own Brothers-Grimm-style stories.
Show times:
Fri, September 24, 2010 7:30 PM
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| Anaïs Mitchell and the Hadestown Orchestra |
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FREE performance. Vermont folk singer Anaïs Mitchell brings to the Spotlight Café her remarkable "folk opera" Hadestown, a modern retelling of the Orpheus myth about an ancient Greek poet’s doomed quest to rescue his wife from the underworld.
Show times:
Sun, September 26, 2010 7:30 PM
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| Slam Poet Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo |
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A two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Finalist, Ieyoka (pronounced ee-yo!-kah) is, quite frankly, one of the most stunning and gifted artists we’ve ever come across. A first-generation Nigerian American, she weaves impassioned poetry and a uniquely personal musical style into inspirational stories about self-empowerment, social responsibility and peace. Her recent single The Yellow Brick Road Song was featured in the HBO series How to Make it in America.
Show times:
Thu, October 21, 2010 7:30 PM
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| Deanna Bogart Band |
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Maryland's Deanna Bogart is an explosive live performer, mixing several streams of American vernacular music into her sets, ranging from funky R&B romps to hushed, Norah Jones-like jazz-pop ballads. She’s a dynamite barrelhouse pianist who plays a pretty mean tenor saxophone, too.
Show times:
Fri, October 29, 2010 8:00 PM
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| Three Cups of Tea |
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Humanitarian and mountaineer Greg Mortenson’s remarkable story of his struggle to build schools for young girls in Pakistan is brought to life in this engaging one-person adaptation from American Place Theatre's Literature to Life Series, The evening will include pre- and post-performance audience discussions.
Show times:
Tue, November 2, 2010 7:30 PM
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| Dennis Lehane |
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Writers in the Spotlight Series. Dennis Lehane's novels include the New York Times bestsellers The Given Day; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and Prayers for Rain.
Show times:
Wed, November 3, 2010 7:00 PM
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| The Things They Carried |
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Tim O’Brien’s masterful collection of short pieces about his experiences surrounding the Vietnam War, staged by actor Billy Lyons, presents a blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction.
Show times:
Thu, April 7, 2011 7:30 PM
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