Programs
Open Training
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.
Open trainings are USUALLY held on the 3rd Saturday of every month and are pay what-you-will.
Sessions take place in different locations, so please check each month carefully.
July Open Training
Presence and Specificity
What is happening right now? What exactly am I doing? What are we doing? What can be created here and now? Join company member Carey Cahoon for a morning of tuning in and being open. How do we focus our attention on the narrow, specific detail, and remain available to the inspiration of what is happening in the moment?
August Open Training
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August 2026 Open Training
tKAPOW Studio 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, United StatesJoin us for a morning of exploration and experimentation!
ARTiculate Playreading Series
Hear the play, see the art, talk about it.
Hear new or rarely produced plays that relate to special exhibitions or objects or artists at NH galleries and museums. After each of the readings, stay for a conversation and visit the galleries to view related artwork. This year we’ll be at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth.
anthropology by Lauren Gunderson - August 30, 2026
3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH
2 pm
I have no answers. I have nothing but rage and sorrow. And so yes I built you because this is what I do. And honestly it’s not that hard, you’re basically a chatbot.
Merril is one of Silicon Valley’s leading software engineers, but her life disintegrates when her younger sister Angie vanishes on her way home from college. A year later, when the police have long abandoned their search, Merril assembles all the digital material Angie has left behind and sets about building herself a digital simulation of her sister. The resultant ‘virtual Angie’ offers her some solace – until, that is, it starts to reveal new details about the real Angie’s disappearance…
A moving exploration of the intersection of family, technology, and legacy, anthropology is the timely new play from award-winning playwright, Lauren Gunderson.
Continuity by Bess Wohl - November 8, 2026
3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH
2 pm
Bess Wohl’s startlingly funny new play examines what is worth saving and what isn’t—especially when we’re facing the end of the world.
A sheet of ice sits in the desert of New Mexico. A mad eco-terrorist plants a bomb in order to save humankind. A beleaguered film crew tries to get in one last shot before losing the light. In Continuity, storytelling and science collide with hilarious and devastating consequences. The play asks, “How do we keep going when hope can seem as fictional as a Hollywood ending?” and also, “What’s for lunch?”
Tickets coming soon.
Birds of North America by Anna Ouyang Moench - January 24, 2027
3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH
2 pm
“This exquisitely subtle, luminous, elegiac father-and-daughter drama is not to be missed.” -Broadway World
John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up and parents age. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. Birds of North America takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding.
Tickets coming soon.
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ARTiculate (anthropology)
3S Artspace 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth, NH, United States"I have no answers. I have nothing but rage and sorrow. And so yes I built you because this is what I do. And honestly it's not that hard, you're basically a chatbot."
A moving exploration of the intersection of family, technology, and legacy, anthropology is the timely new play from award-winning playwright, Lauren Gunderson.
Expanding the Canon: a play reading circle
Check back for more information on the next Expanding the Canon play reading circle. A guest dramaturg will curated the list of five plays we’ll read and provide a rich dramaturgical packet for each as a resource. Participants read the play and materials on their own and gather once a month over Zoom for a lively and enriching conversation. Participation in this program is FREE.
theatre KAPOW launched Expanding the Canon: a play reading circle in January 2021 to expand our familiarity with the works of Black, Indigenous, and global majority playwrights. We simply must do the work to change “the canon.” Becoming familiar with these works is one small thing that we can do to move toward the equity we want to see in the world. Previous circles have focused on works by contemporary Black playwrights, Asian American playwrights, Native playwrights, playwrights highlighting the Disabled voice and Latiné playwrights.
This program is funded in part by
