Nominated for 2017 Spotlight Awards for
  Best Play, Best Actor, Best Actress,
Best Director!

Experience the joy and laughter of last year’s transcendent story of Holly and Robert! The superb cast returns in Norm Foster’s brilliant and deeply touching play that sets a sure and steady course to hope.

Holly Fitch’s life has become quite complicated. Then she meets Robert Castle and his mother, Claire – two very special people. Now Holly may just find her way to becoming the person she was meant to be.

Catherine Colby plays Holly, Tomer Oz plays Robert, and Carol Davenport plays Claire. Alan Huisman and Roland Goodbody round out this dream cast. Stephanie Voss Nugent directs.

“Yet another gem by ACT ONE…a beautifully polished one.” – Edge

“Great script, clever director, talented cast, this show is a “triple treat” for Seacoast audiences!” – Sound

“A masterpiece! It will change the way you view people from the outside in.” – Northshore News

PERFORMANCES

Aug 25, 26, Sep 1, 2 – 7:30 Aug 26, 27, Sep 2 – 2:00

Note: if the date/time you wish to reserve is not listed in the drop-down menu,
please call the Box Office at 603.300.2986. Tickets may still be available!
[No refunds; ticket exchanges will be made according to availability.]

Many thanks to all who participated in ACT ONE’s Spring into Summer Raffle last month!  We had two terrific prizes for you to choose from ~ theatre tickets and an island getaway, and proceeds from raffle tickets has made it possible for us to launch Festival 2019 in grand style!

The two winning tickets were drawn Sunday, June 9 at the final performance of Cupid’s Arrow!

Ben & Marsha Herman were the winners of our Festival Theatre Tickets Raffle and have 4 tickets to all four theatre events of Festival 2019 and for our special concert with Grammy Award- winning acoustic guitarist Ed Gerhard on Sunday, September 8. The Hermans may gift tickets to friends & family and donate tickets to any nonprofits they support to help them raise funds ~ a win-win-win for theatre lovers!

Bob & Ann Radwan were the winners of The Island Getaway Raffle.  Thanks to the generous support of our June Event Sponsor, Star Island Corporation, the Radwans will enjoy a two-night stay at the historic Oceanic Hotel on Star Island at the Isles of Shoals!  Artists’ Collaborative is very grateful to Star Island Corporation for this wonderful raffle prize and for sponsoring our June Event.  

All of us at ACT ONE are grateful to everyone who purchased raffle tickets and helped us put some “fun” in our fundraising!  We invite you all to join us for Festival 2019!

ACT ONE is thrilled to share with our theatre patrons this stunning new work ~ a story told in letters by gifted playwright, poet, and novelist, Caroline Wood. 

We premiered this production in June 2017, playing to full houses and receiving standing ovations and heartfelt praise from audience members.  By popular demand the show returned in September & October 2017.

It’s 1910 and Miss Cecily Barnes of Washington State is passionate about having a flower garden. She finds a catalogue from “Mrs. Beauchamp’s Mystical Flower Seed and Herb Emporium” and sends off to England for seeds. Thus begins a joyous exchange of letters between young Cecily and Louise Beauchamp that grows into a friendship transcending time and oceans. The Immigrant Garden is a journey of love and self-discovery – and a story you will long remember!

PERFORMANCES
Fri, Aug 3 – 7:30     Sat, Aug 4 – 2:00 & 7:30

Note: if the date/time you wish to reserve is not listed in the drop-down menu,
please call the Box Office at 603.300.2986.
Tickets may still be available!
[No refunds; ticket exchanges will be made according to availability.]

 

 

Everyone has a story!  Prepare to be enthralled when the wonderful folks from True Tales Live take the stage Sunday, September 15 at 2:00 for an afternoon of lively and local storytelling. 

Join us for real life tales told by people from the Seacoast who have a great stories to share. The theme for Sunday, Sep 15 is “Rising to the Challenge” and here are the storytellers!

Click here ~ True Tales Live ~ for a short video clip! 

And a word to the wise: True Tales Live Onstage performances often sell out, so best to get your tickets early!

Sponsored by PPMtv – Portsmouth Public Media

PERFORMANCE

Sunday, Sep 15 – 2:00

Only a handful of seats left!  Please call 603.300.2986 for current status!

Note: if the date/time you wish to reserve is not listed in the drop-down menu,
please call the Box Office at 603.300.2986. Tickets may still be available!
[No refunds; ticket exchanges will be made according to availability.]

Internationally acclaimed writer, performer, and chef James Haller returns to ACT ONE’s Festival with a new performance memoir! 

This heartfelt and delightful collage of portraits is told with warmth, spiced with delicious laughter, and is rich in tender insights and grateful love.

A special feature of this production is the evocative music score composed by New England’s own accordionist-extraordinare, Gary Sredizenski!

  “Stunning prose, great good humor, nostalgia, and wisdom.”

Mr. Haller first captivated ACT ONE audiences with Salt & Pepper Cooking~The Education of an American Chef, chronicling a lifetime of cooking, from the age of three in the kitchen with his grandmothers to the day he opened his own kitchen in the famed Blue Strawbery Restaurant of Portsmouth at the age of 33.   Haller is a gifted writer and storyteller who weaves humor and compassion into his pondering of the meaning of life.

~ Sponsored by Johnson Creek Village, a new Care Home coming to Dover NH ~

PERFORMANCES 

Aug 31, Sep 22 ~ 2:00 & 7:30

Internationally acclaimed writer, performer, and chef James Haller returns to ACT ONE’s Festival with a new performance memoir!

This heartfelt and delightful collage of portraits is told with warmth, spiced with delicious laughter, and is rich in tender insights and grateful love.

“Stunning prose, great good humor,
nostalgia, and wisdom.”

Mr. Haller first captivated ACT ONE audiences with Salt & Pepper Cooking~The Education of an American Chef, chronicling a lifetime of cooking, from the age of three in the kitchen with his grandmothers to the day he opened his own kitchen in the famed Blue Strawbery Restaurant of Portsmouth at the age of 33.Haller is a gifted writer and storyteller who weaves humor and compassion into his pondering of the meaning of life.

~ Sponsored by Johnson Creek Village, a new Care Home coming to Dover NH ~

PERFORMANCES

 Sep 22 ~ 2:00 & 7:30
~ also Aug 17, 31 – 7:30 & Aug 31 – 2:00 ~

Everyone has a story!  Prepare to be enthralled when the wonderful folks from True Tales Live take the stage for an afternoon of lively and local storytelling.

These are real life tales told by people from the Seacoast who have a good story to share.  And a word to the wise:  these performances often sell out, so you may want to get your tickets early!

Sponsored by PPMTV – Portsmouth Public Media

PERFORMANCES

Sunday, Sep 3 – 2:00           Sunday, Oct 1 – 2:00

Note: if the date/time you wish to reserve is not listed in the drop-down menu,
please call the Box Office at 603.300.2986. Tickets may still be available!
[No refunds; ticket exchanges will be made according to availability.]