Today, Lend Me A Theater in conjunction with Hatbox Theatre is pleased to announce tickets are now on sale for the inaugural production of the new theater space in Steeplegate Mall, with 6 performances of 2 Across, starting Friday.
2 Across is a romantic comedy written by Jerry Mayer. Join the two strangers, Janet and Josh, as they board a San Francisco BART train at 4:30 a.m. They’re alone in the car, each is married, both are doing the New York Times crossword. She is an organized, sensible psychologist. He’s a free spirited, unemployed ad exec. She is a crossword pro, he always quits. When he tosses his puzzle away, she snaps, “Crosswords are a metaphor for life: those who finish succeed, those who don’t fail.”
The performances will be the next two Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2. Tickets cost $15; students, seniors and members $12.
Lend Me A Theater: LMAT is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Epsom that is entering its second year as a performing arts company.
For more information, log on to lendmeatheater.org or hatboxnh.com.
Absolutely Magic and Andrew Pinard will present Discovering Magic. Monthly performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. on April 6, May 4 and June 1. Tickets are $15 with discounts for students, seniors and Hatbox Theatre members. To order your tickets, visit hatboxnh.com or call 938-5158.
Discovering Magic last appeared in December at The Player’s Ring in Portsmouth, where it played for sold out houses. Returning to Concord after a brief hiatus, this “mind-numbing, jaw-dropping, eye-opening” experience takes audiences on a guided tour of the impossible and the absurd. Using only the most ordinary of objects, accomplished actor, conjuror, puppeteer, storyteller, and award-winning performer Andrew Pinard brings the ordinary to life with the most surprising results. The only show of its kind in New England, audiences have traveled from throughout New England and beyond to experience sleight of hand, con games, psychology, history, science, comedy, cognitive development, political spin, and more through the eyes of a “perceptual engineer” on his quest to explore distortion and guile. Culled from his popular monthly performances elsewhere and abroad, every performance is different and guaranteed to please audiences.
The mission of Hatbox Theatre is to create a cooperative community to develop unique, intimate experiences for audiences and artists as well as provide an affordable theatre space to local production companies. This is reflected by a diverse season of shows where artists can develop, flourish, and explore new ways of communicating with audiences.