Lorraine Hansberry Theatre

11/21/2015

10/16/2015

Thank you to all of our many LHT family and friends who have expressed their sympathy at the passing of our long-time LHT colleague, Marc Paquette, last month. Services will be held by his family in Manchester, NH. His obituary and details follow.

Obituary for Marc Joseph Paquette
August 5, 1957 - September 22, 2015
San Francisco, California | Age 58
Loving Son, Brother, Uncle and LHT Colleague

Marc Joseph Paquette, 58, of San Francisco, CA, son of Maurice E. and Lea A. (Thibodeau) Paquette, died of liver cancer and lupus at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital on September 22, 2015.

Marc was born in Manchester, NH and attended local schools. He graduated from Memorial High School in 1975. In his early days, he also took art lessons at the Currier Art Center where a Mr. Poisson was very influential in making him the talented artist that he became. In high school, a Miss Manning, who headed the drama program, prepared him for becoming a Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco.

He received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Plymouth State University in 1992. In 1993, he moved to San Francisco where he managed the Sheehan Hotel and he studied for four more years at the Academy of Arts College. His studies were interrupted by a major stroke. Until he left Manchester, he was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church.

He is survived by his parents, a sister, Ellen A. Boudreau, her husband David C. Boudreau, and his nephew and Godson, David C. Boudreau, Jr. all of Manchester.

SERVICES: Family and friends will honor and remember Marc's life by gathering at the Phaneuf Funeral Home & Crematorium, 243 Hanover Street (corner of Union Street) Manchester, NH on Saturday, October 17th from 10:00 to 11:00 AM, followed by a Celebration of Life in the funeral home chapel at 11:00 AM. Father Richard Dion from St. Anthony's Church will officiate.

Phaneuf Funeral Homes & Crematorium
243 Hanover Street
Manchester, NH 03104
(603) 625-5777

Link to Obituary: http://phaneuf.tributes.com/obituary/read/Marc-Joseph-Paquette-102932558

09/29/2015

09/29/2015

It is with great sadness that we must inform you that our long-time Lorraine Hansberry Theater (LHT) staff member, Marc Pâquette, passed away last week after a long illness. Marc first became associated with LHT in 1994 as a graphic designer. His first LHT production credit was as Props Designer for 2003’s King Hedley II by August Wilson. In 2005, he became a full-time staff member and was dramaturg for LHT’s 2006 production of Ntozake Shange’s from "okra to greens/ a different kinda love story," and the 2007 production of Stephen Jeffrey’s "I Just Stopped By to See The Man." Marc co-wrote, with André C. Andrée, the script for LHT’s 2007 production of "Black Nativity," and also co-wrote, with Stanley E. Williams, the script for 2009's "Black Nativity." In 2010, he collaborated with André C. André to co-write LHT’s box office smash, "Joyful Noise." Marc was a devoted supporter of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and LHT founders Quentin Easter and Stanley E. Williams who both passed in 2010. Marc truly believed "The show must go on!" In January of 2015, he became ill and retired from day-to-day operations at LHT as the Webmaster and Manager of Audience Development in order to make the most of his remaining time. Marc earned a BFA in studio art, with a minor in anthropology/ sociology, from Plymouth State University, in his native New Hampshire. His artistic talent shone through the many creative graphic designs and artwork he created for LHT's website, play programs and flyers. He will be sorely missed by his colleagues, friends and the extended Bay Area theater family, as well as his own family in New Hampshire.

09/29/2015

LHT joins the California Arts Council in sending Happy 50th Birthday wishes to the National Endowment for the Arts! Thank you to the NEA for supporting LHT's production of THURGOOD in July, and for supporting the arts in California and across the nation.

06/18/2015

Civil Rights Reignited with THURGOOD by George Stevens, Jr. this July 9-25th http://conta.cc/1SpndpF

06/15/2015

TONIGHT June 15th! LHT's Project1Voice Juneteenth Benefit Staged Reading of "HOME" by Samm-Art Williams http://conta.cc/1Tn6XXw

Originally produced by the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), HOME is a  brilliantly inventive, lyrically expressive classic play that deals joyfully with the coming of age of a young black man from rural South Carolina. The action begins on a small farm in South Carolina that Cephus Miles, an orphan, in…

06/11/2015

Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT), puts the spotlight on equal justice with the production of THURGOOD by George Stevens, Jr. from July 9-25, 2015 at the Creativity Theater, 221 Fourth Street (at Howard) in San Francisco directed by Margo Hall. THURGOOD is a powerful one-man play first produced on Broadway in April 2008, starring Laurence Fishburne. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre's production features LHT's Artistic Director, Steven Anthony Jones, as Thurgood Marshall, one of the defining American characters of the 20th Century. Learn more and purchase tickets at http://lhtsf.org/tickets.html.

06/09/2015

June 15th Juneteenth Fundraiser -- "HOME" Staged Reading -- LHT in association with Project1Voice -- 1Day!1Play!1Voice! http://conta.cc/1JEF1tB

Presented in collaboration wth Project1Voice, net proceeds from the San Francisco staged reading of HOME benefit Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.

05/30/2015

SUBSCRIBER ALERT! BATA Staged Reading May 30th 2 pm at MoAD & June 4th 7pm at EBCPA http://conta.cc/1AzPK7d

05/29/2015

Hansberry Happenings This Weekend! May 30th 2PM - BATA Staged Reading at MoAD http://conta.cc/1FdwtEg

05/29/2015

Hansberry Happenings! This Weekend - May 30th 2PM - BATA Staged Reading at MoAD http://conta.cc/1HVu4C7