December 2024 Open Training
2024-12-21 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
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How do you follow a script that can’t be repeated? A solo performance that can’t be done alone?Join Director Emma Cahoon and Company members Peter Josephson and Carey Cahoon for a morning of creating and finding Every Brilliant Thing.

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended!

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January 2025 Open Training
2025-01-18 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States

ARTiculate (The Rembrandt)
2025-01-19 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, NH, 03102, United States
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In this comedic drama, playwright Jessica Dickey paints shimmering portraits of Rembrandt, Homer, and those who protect the art we cherish.

Every Brilliant Thing
2025-02-07 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-08 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-09 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | BNH Stage, 16 S Main St., Concord, NH, 03301, United States
Fri, February 7, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sat, February 8, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sun, February 9, 2025, 2:00 pm

BNH Stage, Concord, NH

Rediscover all that life has to give.
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. This surprising and immersive theatrical experience speaks openly about depression, mental illness and suicide. With poignant humor and joy, Every Brilliant Thing takes us on a journey through grief, healing, falling in love, and rediscovering all that life has to give.

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Every Brilliant Thing
2025-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 33 Footlight Circle, Meredith, 03253, United States
Fri, February 21, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sat, February 22, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sun, February 23, 2025, 2:00 pm

Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Meredith, NH

Rediscover all that life has to give.
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. This surprising and immersive theatrical experience speaks openly about depression, mental illness and suicide. With poignant humor and joy, Every Brilliant Thing takes us on a journey through grief, healing, falling in love, and rediscovering all that life has to give.

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March 2025 Open Training
2025-03-15 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
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Stillness is the theatre artist’s most powerful and most elusive tool. How can you calm the chaos, capture movement in not moving? How can you channel the constant changes of being into communication and connection?Join us for a morning of exploration and experimentation led by company member Carey Cahoon.

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended!

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
2025-04-16 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | Capitol Center for the Arts 44 S. Main St, Concord, NH 03301, 44 S. Main Street, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
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On a Midsummer’s night, four young lovers find themselves wrapped in the dream-like arms of an enchanted forest where sprites lurk and fairies rule. While a feuding Fairy King and Queen are at war, their paths are crossed by Bottom, Quince and their friends presenting a play within a play. Chief mischief-maker Puck is on-hand to ensure that the course of true love is anything but smooth, and games of fantasy, love and dreams ensue in Shakespeare’s most beguiling comedy. Run time: 90 minutes.

April 2025 Open Training
2025-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
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This month we will explore ensemble-based storytelling and will work together to craft original dramatic texts for performance. Through Moment Work and Exquisite Corpse techniques, we will manipulate and subvert Western storytelling tropes to defy audience expectations. Come have some fun engaging in collaborative creation, experimenting with form and structure to generate bold, unexpected narratives that challenge traditional theatrical conventions.Join us for a morning of exploration and experimentation led by company member Matt Cahoon.

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended!

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Play Reading: I, Will by Scott Carter
2025-04-24 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, 03012, United States
Free Performance

A once-popular playwright collaborates with a notorious low-life to invent a new mode of drama that propels him back to the pantheon of the theater world. The place: London. The year: 1608. The playwright: William Shakespeare. His scoundrel collaborator: Brothel-keep, brawler and petty thief George Wilkins.
tKAPOW’s workshop reading of this new play is FREE at the Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH.
Scott Carter is Executive Producer / Co-creator of Regional Emmy winning talk show LOVE & RESPECT WITH KILLER MIKE (PBS / REVOLT TV). He was nominated for dozens of Primetime Emmys as Executive Producer / Writer of the first 1,100 episodes of POLITICALLY INCORRECT (Comedy Central, ABC) and the first 16 seasons of REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER (HBO), for which he won Producers Guild of America and Writers Guild of America awards. His play THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JEFFERSON, DICKENS AND TOLSTOY: DISCORD has been produced in 26 cities in four countries.

ARTiculate (Bauer)
2025-05-04 14:00 UTC | Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, NH, 03102, United States
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In his time, Rudolf Bauer was considered an even greater painter than his contemporary, Kandinsky. The Guggenheim Museum was built to house his work. Why did this genius that survived Nazi Germany suddenly stop painting, and why were none of his works on the walls of the Guggenheim when it opened? Tickets coming soon!

May 2025 Open Training
2025-05-17 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
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Join us for a morning of exploration and experimentation led by company member Rachael Chapin Longo. Details coming soon.

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended!

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The Best We Could (a family tragedy)
2025-06-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-06-14 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-06-15 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | BNH Stage, 16 S Main St., Concord, NH, 03301, United States
Fri, June 13, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sat, June 14, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sun, June 15, 2025, 2:00 pm

BNH Stage, Concord, NH

A theatrical road trip across more than just state lines
In this funny, wise, and heartbreaking debut from Emily Feldman, a daughter’s road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. Though 30-something Ella has nearly given up on life, she agrees to accompany her father Lou on a long-distance trip to adopt a rescue dog. Guided by a narrator called Maps and interspersed with memories and phone calls from Ella’s mother, Peg, their journey reveals hard truths as their pasts slowly rise to the surface. NH premiere.

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June 2025 Open Training
2025-06-21 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
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As actors we often work to “get into” character. But what if we allow the character to get into us? Beginning with the space around us, and playing with objects, we can arrive at an imagination of character without limits. Bring a favorite stuffed animal.
Join us for a morning of exploration and experimentation led by company member Peter Josephson. Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Pay what you will!

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended! Pay what you will!

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Romeo & Juliet
2025-07-17 19:30 - 21:15, 2025-07-18 19:30 - 21:15, 2025-07-19 19:30 - 21:15, 2025-07-24 19:30 - 21:15, 2025-07-25 19:30 - 21:15, 2025-07-26 19:30 - 21:15 (America/New_York) | Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, 03012, United States
Thurs, July 17 2025, 7:30 pmFrI, July 18, 2025, 7:30 pmSat, June 19, 2025, 7:30 pm
Thurs, July 24, 2025, 7:30 pmFri, July 25, 2024, 7:30 pmSat, July 26, 2024, 7:30 pm

Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH

All the world will be in love with night.
theatre KAPOW and Ballet Misha bring to life the greatest love story and most epic tragedy of all time. Seven actors and sixteen dancers lay their scene in fair Verona in this fresh and physical reimagining of Shakespeare’s transcendent Romeo & Juliet. .

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July 2025 Open Training
2025-07-19 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
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Join us for a morning of exploration and experimentation led by company member Carey Cahoon.

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended! Pay what you will!

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August 2025 Open Training
2025-08-16 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
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Join us for a morning of exploration and experimentation led by Artistic Director Matt Cahoon.

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended! Pay what you will!

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Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
2025-09-19 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-09-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-09-21 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | BNH Stage, 16 S Main St., Concord, NH, 03301, United States
Fri, Sept 19, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sat, Sept 20, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sun, Sept 21, 2025, 2:00 pm

BNH Stage, Concord, NH

You’re going to speak more than 123 million words in your lifetime. But what will you do when they run out?

In times of increasing uncertainty, playwright Sam Steiner’s dystopian romantic comedy, tempered with hope and laughter, is exactly the type of story we need. In a world where spoken language is restricted to a set number of words per day, the choices about what is said – and not said – take on profound meaning. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons follows Oliver and Bernadette, two people grappling with the limits of communication and the impact it has on their relationship.

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September 2025 Open Training
2025-09-20 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | BNH Stage, 16 S Main St., Concord, NH, 03301, United States
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Join us for a morning of exploration and experimentation.

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended! Pay what you will!

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October 2025 Open Training
2025-10-18 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | tKAPOW Studio, 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, 03101, United States
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Join us for a morning of exploration led by Guest Artist Andrew Codispoti. In this workshop we’ll explore techniques for ensemble building, physical theatre, nonverbal communication, and instinctive shared movement. The tools we’ll focus on have been used in “quick-raise” processes for very-fast (2-5 day) production of Shakespeare plays, specifically to quickly build the sense of ensemble that Shakespeare’s company would have had after years of working together.

Training is an integral part of theatre KAPOW’s work: acting, movement, improvisation, voice, speech, object work, viewpoints, and more. Company members have trained with Double Edge Theatre Company, the Michael Chekhov Studio, Shakespeare & Company, The Atlantic Acting School and SITI Company, and draw on these techniques and methods for their work.
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Water bottle recommended! Pay what you will!

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