Pontine Theatres co-directors, Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews, bring their unique approach to literary adaptations to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 romance, The House of the Seven Gables.   Performances are Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 4pm and Sundays at 2pm from April 22 to May 8.  There is also an 8pm performance on Saturday 23 April.  Tickets are $24 and may be purchased online. (Continued below)  

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David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books about presidnets Truman and John Adams will be at the Music Hall this summer. Tickets will sell out fast for the Thursday, June 23, 7:30pm as the author will present his latest work, THE GREATER JOURNEY: Americans in Paris. (See details below) 

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 Rivermill at Dover Landing is bringing “one of the best live bands in America” (NY Press) to Dover. Free Energy's) national tour is bringing them to town on Saturday, April 23rd. “We're really excited to have Free Energy in town on a Saturday night”, says partner Tom Clancy, “Our hope is shows like this will prove to other national acts that New Hampshire's Seacoast is worth visiting and Rivermill is where they want to play.” (Continued below)

Demonstrating once again that when it comes to the arts in the Seacoast region the whole can truly be greater than the sum of its parts, Prescott Park Arts Festival (PPAF) and Seacoast Repertory Theatre (the Rep) are proud to announce a new collaborative effort for the upcoming summer season. The organizations will co-produce The Wizard of Oz, as part of the main stage this summer starting JUne 24, 2011.  (Continued below)

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The Gundalow Company will host  Gundalow Gatherings on April 9, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. This one night event features ten programs in ten homes in ten Seacoast towns.  Friends of the non-profit Gundalow Company will host attendees in their homes for an evening of food, drink and maritime conversation with guest experts. (Read more below)

Just in time for spring, the NorthEast Seacoast Unit of the Herb Society of America and Strawbery Banke Museum areteaming up to co-sponsor a presentation on the lovely fragrant plants called Pelargoniums or more simply known as Scented Geraniums - though they are actually not geraniums at all. Event is March 29, but register TODAY due to limited space. (Continued below)

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A snow day in January in Eliot, Maine has turned into an all-out effort by the five Marshwood District schools to help provide clean water to remote villages around the world. A district-wide walkathon will be held 9 am to 3 pm  Saturday, March 26, at the high school to raise money for UNICEF’s TAP project.  (Continued below) 

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The New Hampshire Seacoast will come alive in early June as a fleet of racing yachts from coastal New England vie for honors in the Gosport Regatta, the resurgence of a vintage sailing race around the Isles of Shoals first held in the late 19th century. (Details below)

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The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce and Dover Main Street, the two local organizations who collaborated in 2010 to revive the Seacoast Irish Festival after a five year hiatus, have announced that this year’s edition of the popular outdoor Festival is being rescheduled for Saturday, September 10, 2011. (Continued below)

The Music Hall and RiverRun Bookstore announce the first event in their new Writers in the Loft series. National Book Award finalist author Andre Dubus III, the author of the novels House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, will present his new work of nonfiction Townie on April 13^th at 7pm. (Continued below)