1977-78 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Anne Sauve / Ellen Breed
at the Market Square Studio
The Baker
The Umbrella
Work
1978-79 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Anne Sauve / Ellen Breed
Pierrot & The Statue
Beginnings / Music by Jon Appleton
The Fan
The Archer
Guest Artists: Piscataqua River Jazz Dancers’ Dance of the Kung Fu Master
/ Music by Randy Armstrong & Ken LaRoche, Do’A Wold Music Ensemble
1979-80 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Anne Sauve / Ellen Breed
Trio
Pierrot & Harlequin Suite
One, Two, Three
1980-81Company: Marguerite Mathews / Anne Sauve / Ellen Breed
The Way Forward / Costumes: Greg Gathers
1981-82 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Anne Sauve / Ellen Breed
A,B,C Hungry!
Conversation
Three Friends
1982-83 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Anne Sauve / Ellen Breed / Greg Gathers
Apprentices: Erika Batdorf, Liz Korabek, Burgess Malarky
Birthday of the Infanta
The Wedding Tale
Tale of William Mariner / Music by Jon Appleton
1983-84 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Anne Sauve / Greg Gathers / Tony Staffier
Esemplastic
Guest Artistis: Connecticut Ballet / Tom Rush / Danny Sloan & Co.
1984-85 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Anne Sauve / Greg Gathers / Tony Staffier
Apprentice: Mark Towle
Snow Queen / Music: Jon Appleton
Nomad Flute
Dream Away
Three Suitors
Two Sisters
When Alone
Story of our Lives / Muisc: Jon Appleton
Quartet Suite / Music: Randy Armstrong
1985-86 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers / Mark Towle / Erika Batdorf
Cafe
City Shadow
Guest Artists: Studebaker Movement Theatre / Connecticut Ballet /
National Tap Dance Company of Canada
1986-87 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers / Mark Towle / Erika Batdorf
Face the Music
Bitter Bliss
1987-88 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
last season at Market Square Studio
Child’s Eye
Vision of our Past
Guest Artists: Studebaker Movement Theatre / The Whiffepoofs / Tom Leabhart
Daniel Stein
1988-89 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Apprentice: Liz Korabek, Larry Jones
move to McDonough Street Studio
Bitter Bliss
Story of Our Lives / Music by Jon Appleton
Three Suitors
Guest Artists: Paul Zaloom / Laura Sheppard
1989-90 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Apprentice: Liz Korabek
Paradise
Familiar Fields
1990-91 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Still Life in a House of Dust
Guest Artists: Dan Hurlin / Klauniada / Julie Goell
1991-92 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Bitter Bliss
Lost Art / Script by Paul Mroczka
Guest Artist: Fred Curchak
1992-93 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Correspondence of Desire / Music by Randy Armstrong
Guest Artists: Jo Ha Kyu / Talking Band
1993-94 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Our Town / Music: John Morningstar & Duane Smoot
Guest Artists: Cultural Odyssey / Nataraj Indian Dance / Linda Mancini
1994-95 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Country of the Pointed Firs, from the novel by Sarah Orne Jewett
Guest Artists: Cultural Odyssey, Tom Cayler, Gary Shore
1995-96 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Voices from the Spirit Land
Guest Artists: Fred Curchack & Daniel Stein / Archipelago Theatre / Tom Leabhart
1996-97 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Serpent Woman
Guest Artists: Heidi Latsky / Dan Butterworth Marionettes / Judith Sloan
1997-98 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Journey to Heaven: The Shaker Way / Music: Randy Armstrong
Guest Artists: Peter Dimuro / Somay Hay Cambodian Dance / Archipelago Theatre
1998-99 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Cornish Castles
Guest Artists: Celeste Miller / Jo Ha Kyu / Linda Mancini
1999 -00 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Our Town / Music: John Morningstar & Duane Smoot
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Guest artists: Sandglass Theatre / Julie Goell
2000-01 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
move to West End Studio Theatre
Dearly Earned
Voices from the Spirit Land
Guest Artists: E. Reid Gilbert / Gary Shore
2001-02 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Dearest Dreamer
Journey to Heaven: The Shaker Way (Music: Randy Armstrong)
Guest Artists: BJ Goodwin / Perry Alley Puppet Theatre
2002-03 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Home is Heaven: 32 Poems by Ogden Nash
2003-04 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Silver Lake Summers
2004-05 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Peace of Portsmouth
2005-06 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Brewster’s Rambles About Portsmouth
2006-07 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Wallace Nutting’s Old America
2007-08 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
It’s A Wonderful Life
2008-09 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
It’s A Wonderful Life
Dunnet Landing Stories
Guest Artists: Tom Cayler & Steve Hayes / Kimberly Dark / Michael Parent
2009-10 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
New England Christmas: Christmas 1910, Mavis Goes to Yoga & poems by Ogden nash & e.e.cummings
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Isles Of Shoals: the Eternal Sound of the Sea
Guest Artists: Little Blue Moon Theatre / Diane Edgecomb & Margot Chamberlain
2010-11 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
A Poet’s Christmas: The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, A Visit From St. Nicolas & A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Our Town
The House of the Seven Gables
Guest artists: Judith Black / Concrete Twmple Theatre
2011-12 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
A Christmas Carol (music: Barbara London)
Cap’n Simeon’s Store
Guest artists: Christopher Lewis / NACL / Mud Time Theatre
2012-13 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
A Winter’s Tale (based on “A Neighbor’s Landmark”)
The Common Heart: New England Utopia
2013-14 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
A New England Christmas: Captain Eli’s Best Ear & The Romance of a Christmas Card
Isles of Shoals: the Eternal Sound of the Sea
Guest artists: Independent Eye / Tannis Kowalchuk
2014-15 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
A New England Christmas: Jimmy Scarecrow’s Christmas, The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus, Christmas Rescue & A Winter's Tale
The Common Heart: New England Utopia
The Hunting of the Snark & Other Nonsense by Lewis Carroll
Guest artists: Concrete Temple Theatre / Jay O’Callahan
2015-16 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
last season at the West End Studio Theatre
A New England Christmas: The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t & The Christmas Monks
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Guest artists: Independent Eye / Tom Cayler / Little Blue Moon Theatre
2016-17 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
in residence at Strawbery Banke Museum
Cap’n Eli’s Best Ear
Dunnet Landing Stories
The Story of a Bad Boy
Guest artists: Jay O’Callhan / Diane Edgecomb
2017-18 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
in residence at Strawbery Banke Museum
A New England Christmas: The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus, Christmas in Our Town, The Old Peabody Pew
Brewster’s Rambles About Portsmouth
Guest artists: John Farrell, Figures of Speech / David Stephens / Jo Radner
2018-19 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
move to the 1845 Plains Schoolhoue
The Knave of Hearts & A Christmas Carol
Tales of New England Life: the Stories of Alice Brown
Guest artists: Jay O’Callahan / Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards / Peter DiMuro
2019-20 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
The House of the Seven Gables
A New England Christmas: A Neighbor’s Landmark & A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Robert Frost’s New Hampshire (canceled due to COVID pandemic)
Guest artists: Great Small Works / PuppetKabob
2020-21 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
entirely online due to COVID pandemic
Robert Frost’s New Hampshire
A White Heron
The Green Shay
Guest artists: Concrete Tmple Theatre / Rebecca Rule
2021-22 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
A New England Christmas: The Old Peabody Pew, Honey & Myrrh (music by Dudly Laughlin)
Isles of Shoals: the Eternal Sound of the Sea
Guest artists: Scott Weintraub / Jay O’Callahan / Nina Maurer
2022-23 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Christmas Snow (music by New England Fiddle Ensemble)
Dearly Earned
Guest artists: Paradox Teatro / Peter DiMuro / Tannis Kowalchuk, Farm Arts Collaborative
2023-24 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
Captain Eli’s Best Ear (music by New England Fiddle Ensemble)
Robert Frost’s New Hampshire
Guest artists: PuppetKabob / Great Small Works
2024-25 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
A New England Christmas: Christmas Every Day, Christmas Trees & Christmas in Our Town (music by New England Fiddle Ensemble)
Sojourner Stories: New Englanders in Nature (Farmer Eli’s Vacation, The Star-Splitter & A White Heron)
Guest artists: Bill George, Kingfisher Theatre / Joh Farrell, Figures of Speech Theatre
2025-26 Company: Marguerite Mathews / Greg Gathers
A New England Christmas: A Speakin’ Ghost & Christmas Back Home
The Flat Iron Lot
Guest artists: John Perrault / PuppetKabob