Mission Statement

To promote and provide top quality theatrical entertainment for our community;  To cultivate the technical skill and artistic craft of performance in an atmosphere of respect, integrity, and compassion.
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Contacting the New Thalian Players
Email us at newthalianplayers@gmail.com
Please note: Emails are checked once a week during production times.
During non-production times email is checked every other week.

You can send us mail at
NEW THALIAN PLAYERS
P.O. BOX 196
MANCHESTER, NH 03105

You can call us at
603-666-6466
Please allow 2 business days for a response
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JOIN OUR POSTAL MAILNG LISTS
If you'd like to be on our postal mailing list, receive audition notices, and/or work backstage, send
an email specifying any or all of the above with your postal address to newthalianplayers@gmail.com and
put "NTP Postal Mail" in the subject line.
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A History of The New Thalian Players

The New Thalian Players began as a small group of Notre Dame College students, in Manchester NH, looking for a play and a director in order to restart the dormant college theatre program.  As it happened, Beth Ann Silverman, a mother who was belatedly finishing her fine arts degree, was asked to help the students by their faculty advisor, Prof. John O’Hara, because he knew that she had had previous theatrical experience.
(John and Beth Ann later married)

Beginning with a modest one-act play program in the spring of 1983 - the group was then known as "The Not Ready for Broadway Players" - and then a small but profitable production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” in the fall of 1983, the troupe went on to get funding for lights (a $1500 grant from Louis Georgopoulos, a local businessman) and some money from the college for start-up expenses.

Slowly the group built a solid and valuable reputation for well-produced, designed, costumed and directed plays. They slowly added to their stock of costumes, lights and stage accessories yearly from their profits.

When Notre Dame College closed in 2000, Beth Ann O'Hara, Betty Thomson, Joe Vago,
Sara (Desrosiers) Scheiner, and Anne (Kwiatek) Young, incorporated the group into a non-profit oganization.  They formed a nine member Board of Directors and kept the group going with performances at the Palace Theatre and the Olde Bedford Towne Hall.

NTP continues to produce quality theatre that is entertaining and engaging.

The New Thalian Players serves the Manchester NH area and surrounding towns.  We are a non-profit, tax-deductible organization (IRS 501c) with membership open and available to anyone in the area.

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