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Opinion – Portsmouth Herald
July 02, 2010 2:00 AM
The city’s cultural life is bound up with the old sailor’s knots in the rigging of our 130-year-old Music Hall.

The Music Hall has been a much-loved venue for movies and national talent since it was rescued from oblivion in the 1980s, but the organization has entered a whole new phase in recent years.

When Patricia Lynch, a theater impresario and widely produced playwright, arrived as executive director in 2004, she began a research and discussion process to create a vision for the next phase of The Music Hall’s development. We’ve been seeing the results ever since.

The program has broadened far beyond what our little city could have expected — from the nationally recognized musicians and performers to the movies, writers, kids shows and the opera. And there’s been a continuous stream of major renovations.

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Fall renovation, Spring opening

new performance/learning space offering the same high quality programs
in a more intimate space around the corner from the historic theatre

Design Team Introduced
New/Expanded Programs Announced
Downtown Economic Impact Predicted

Lively, dynamic, warm, hip, distinct, intimate. These were just some of the adjectives used to describe the new Music Hall Loft at 131 Congress Street in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the new world class performance, educational and office space slated for a fall groundbreaking and Spring 2011 opening.  At the June 22 announcement, Executive Director Patricia Lynch explained, “The Loft will offer a unique experience – a modern, downtown space that is simultaneously an intimate theatre (with food/drink availability at 100+ seats), a high-traffic space for educational programming, and offices for professional staff. Purchasing the highly visible 131 Congress Street around the corner from the theatre allows us to enhance our sustainable business model, meet our needs for new space, and continue to offer the same high quality curated programming as the historic theatre and to meet our mission to the community.” Read the rest of this entry »

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