STAGE FORCE

03/15/2024

This is CJ Lewis, director/producer. Consider his cute little friend a Metaphor for the about-to-pup Bold Face Play Reading Series, which opens Monday March 25 at 7 pm at the Kittery Kittery Community Center and STAR Theatre, launching a new spoken word venue on the second floor. Here's a hyperlink to get tickets to the reading, FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE, featuring Don Goettler and Constance Witman: https://portsmouthnhtickets.com/events/the-bold-face-play-reading-series-presents-frankie-and-johnny-in-the-clair-de-lune-by-terence-mcnally-3-25-2024 (Real dogs not allowed, sorry)
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12/11/2015

Just opened up some handicapped seats for the Sunday 2 pm show of RAGPICKER'S DREAM: the Saturday seats are all gone! Come say goodbye to Stage Force and treat yourself to a great Christmas spirit raiser! http://www.themusichall.org/calendar/event/ragpickers_dream1

Kent Stephens’ Stage Force annual holiday play reading (no sets or costumes) features brilliant performances from top Seacoast talent. This funny, poignant collection of tales, adapted for the stage by Kent Stephens, includes a glimmering morsel from Kenneth Graham’s The Wind in the Willows, the poe…

11/08/2015

A beautiful quote from the new leader of the Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, Joe Haj: “We, all of us, are only here for an instant, How we spend that time, amidst what beauty, what empathy, what love, is perhaps the ultimate question. The fact that we existed, worked like drones, bought a few things, and then died is not a life well-spent. The arts remind us why we live. They also remind us how we live.”
Support the arts, especially those in your community.

10/22/2015

On September 14 at W.E.S.T, our friend Ida LeClair chatted with local authors Jacquelyn Benson and Patricia Lynch about their debut novels, soon to be released. Here's the update: Lynch's supernatural thriller DECATUR is available for download today! Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/Decatur-Patricia-Lynch-ebook/dp/B0157KRAPA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445518033&sr=1-1&keywords=decatur

Decatur, Illinois, 1973. Something is transforming banal Decatur into a place of unexpected and dangerous power. When the charismatic Gar hops off a freight train, Marilyn, a diner waitress afflicted with psychic powers, is sure she’s seen him before and her friends—a hard-drinking ...

10/17/2015

STARTS IN LESS THAN 90 MINUTES!! All sorts of amazing bargains, and a truck full of platforms, masking flats - you name it.

THE GREAT STAGE FORCE “POTLATCH” GIVEAWAY!!! Saturday, October 17 at KCC
Stage Force will vacate both our storage space and our studio by end of October. Everything must go! We are offering our worldly goods
FREE to our theatre colleagues on Saturday, October 17 from 10 am to 1 pm, in our studio at Kittery Community Center, and in a truck bed in the KCC front parking lot.
Check out our inventory:
Scenic: 7 black velour 4x8' masking flats and 4 4x8' ' platforms, in addi...
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10/10/2015

THE GREAT STAGE FORCE “POTLATCH” GIVEAWAY!!! Saturday, October 17 at KCC
Stage Force will vacate both our storage space and our studio by end of October. Everything must go! We are offering our worldly goods
FREE to our theatre colleagues on Saturday, October 17 from 10 am to 1 pm, in our studio at Kittery Community Center, and in a truck bed in the KCC front parking lot.
Check out our inventory:
Scenic: 7 black velour 4x8' masking flats and 4 4x8' ' platforms, in addition to 2 3.33x8' platforms.
A large rolled canvas drop in its own touring sleeve and a separate easily-collapsed metal frame for it, in its own touring sleeve.
A large plexiglass light box, 7x3'.
Hard flats,. 4' 9.25" by 7.5'.
A finished pine board back drop.
3 doors, all slightly different widths, and two door frames.
All the counter units from SHARP DRESSED MEN TRILOGY, all 33" tall with countertop, one single unit is 8' feet long, the others are shorter.
Lots of masonite facing, carpeted riser treads,etc
Soft goods: throw rugs, blankets, pillows
Luggage: suitcases, assorted soft bags and hand bags, one huge steamer trunk
Tableware: assorted glasses, plates, pitchers, vases, bottles
Lighting: a mirror ball; emergency lights; electric candles and tea lights
Props: ice bucket and tongs
Assorted chests and decorative boxes
Books
Scripts
Jewelry, glasses
Artificial flowers
Antique adding machine and abacus
Oil lamps and lamp oil
Costumes: period and contemporary; jewelry, glasses, etc.
Full length and half length mirrors
Card tables
Standing oscillating fan
Dog stuff: two large water bowls, toys, chews, collars

09/27/2015

We appreciate the Portsmouth Herald featuring this valedictory piece by our fearless leader this morning.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150927/NEWS/150929347/101050/OPINON

The theatre that would become State Force began in 2006 in Kittery Foreside. Through the graces of an old high school chum I had a meeting with one of the

09/25/2015

Lovely piece in the Herald about STAGE FORCE's decision to cease operations.

KITTERY, Maine - Kent Stephens' Stage Force has closed, holding its last play reading Monday night, Sept. 21, and will cease main stage productions.The

09/20/2015

Sexually confused? We have the play for you: C**K by Mike Bartlett, which we're reading tomorrow night, Monday the 21st at 7:30 pm in The Music Hall Loft as part of our Play Reading Series. This will be the 64th and - please note - FINAL Stage Force Play Reading, so if you are a fan, you don't want to miss it the next-to-last event for our theatre. After tomorrow, it's RAGPICKER'S DREAM in December. Then: we're just a happy memory!

09/13/2015

Spend an hour in the company of three extraordinary women: Jackie Benson, Patricia Lynch, and Susan Poulin, in her avatar of Ida LeClair. Listen to excerpts from two exciting new novels, and enjoy a round robin gab fest complete with Ida's home baked goodies. It's IDA'S BOOK CLUB and it all happens tomorrow, Monday September 14 at 7 pm at W.E.S.T Theatre, courtesy of our friends at the New Hampshire Theatre Project. Sorry, no advance reservations: doors open at 6:30 and it's first come, first seated. (Please contribute a little something to STAGE FORCE if you can.) See you theah!

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09/10/2015

And next up in our September calendar after our FINDING FISH weekend beginning tomorrow night, be sure to catch this! Devices that can download or preorder books are welcome!

http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150910/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150919989/101036/ENTERTAINMENT

At 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, Stage Force gets literary with a special presentation at the West End Theater.Ida's Book Club will feature popular Seacoast

09/10/2015

A nice piece by Megan Grumbling in the Portland PHOENIX about our reading of FINDING FISH on Friday evening at the Seacoast Science Center, with panel discussion Saturday afternoon at the Portsmouth Public Library. Come catch both events!

http://portlandphoenix.me/2015/09/09/news/fishing-for-answers-stage-force-tackles-fisheries-challenges-with-new-play/

The conflicts raised by climate change, threatened fisheries and conservation policy are dynamic and sometimes divisive in our communities — look at the Maine winter shrimp fishery in limbo, or the strong feelings over extending federal protections to the Gulf of Maine’s Cashes Ledge. These issues a…