80 Hanover St. Manchester, NH

603.668.5588

[email protected]

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THE REX

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The Rex Theatre

Our versatile 300-seat venue for musicians, theatre, comedy, community events, and more.

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Our History

Originally a printing press, the Rex served as a movie theatre from the 1940s to 1980s. 1989 saw the end of the Rex’s life as a movie house. The property then changed hands several times, functioning as a series of nightclubs. In 2016, the building was purchased by the Manchester Development Corporation (MDC). The Palace Theatre Trust entered into a private-public partnership with MDC in October 2018 with the shared goal of reviving the Rex and opening the space as a theatre once again.

On October 30, 2019 we opened the doors of the Rex Theatre, a state-of-the-art, 300-seat performance venue. In the four months the Rex was open before temporarily shutting down due to COVID-19, we began to see the possibilities of this new cultural resource. This venue has added immensely to our existing performance capabilities. We look forward to experiencing the growth of the Palace Theatre Trust’s newest addition.

THE REX THEATRE EVENTS

September 2024

Candlelight: A Tribute to Queen and More

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Manchester. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Queen and more at The Rex Theatre under the gentle glow of candlelight. Buy Tickets Tentative Program Queen: “Don’t Stop Me Now” “Killer Queen” “Somebody to Love” “Love of My Life” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” “Under Pressure” (Queen and David Bowie) “Bohemian Rhapsody” “Fat Bottomed Girls” “We Will Rock You” “Another One Bites the Dust” “We Are the Champions”
18 Sep
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
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Candlelight: A Tribute to Coldplay & Imagine Dragons

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Manchester. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Coldplay & Imagine Dragons at The Rex Theatre under the gentle glow of candlelight. Buy Tickets Tentative Program Coldplay – Clocks Coldplay – Something Just Like This Imagine Dragons – Radioactive Coldplay – Adventure of a Lifetime Coldplay – Fix You Imagine Dragons – Natural Imagine Dragons – Next to Me Coldplay – The Scientist Imagine Dragons – Follow You Imagine Dragons – Bad Liar Coldplay – Viva la Vida Imagine Dragons – Believer Coldplay – Sky Full of Stars
18 Sep
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
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Manchester Citywide Arts Festival’s Open Mic Night

Join us at the Manchester Citywide Arts Festival Open Mic/Variety Show! Whether you sing, dance, tell jokes, or recite poetry, we want you on our stage! Date: September 19, 2024 Time: 7 PM – 9 PM Location: Rex Theatre, 23 Amherst Street, Manchester, NH. Deadline for entries is August 31, 2024. Let’s make it a night to remember! Share your passion, meet fellow artists, and enjoy a vibrant mix of performances. Hosted by the Manchester Arts Commission (MAC) Reserve Tickets
19 Sep
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
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Ninja Turtles Live Action Film

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live Action Film With Guest Q&A Join us as we shellabrate 40 years of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a special screening of the 1990 Live Action Film! Join cast members from the film for a special Q&A before the film as they discuss bringing the turtles to the big screen for the very first time! Cast members scheduled to appear include Brian Tochi (Leonardo), Robbie Rist (Michelangelo), Kenn Scott (Raphael), Francois Chau (Shredder), Ernie Reyes Jr (Keno) and Judith Hoag (April). NH’S Comic Book and Pop Culture Convention since 2003! Granitecon is a comic and pop culture convention in Manchester, NH, featuring guests, events, screenings and more. Buy Tickets
21 Sep
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
30.00
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An Evening Mary Gauthier with special guest Jaimee Harris

“With songwriting as powerful as hers, there’s no need to go looking for qualifiers. She’s a unique, intrinsically valuable musical voice. And there’s never a surplus of those.” 
— Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Time The Associated Press named Mary Gauthier as one of the best songwriters of her generation. Her songs have been recorded by dozens of artists, including Jimmy Buffett, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Bettye Lavette Mike Farris, Amy Helm and Candi Staton, and have appeared extensively in Film and Television, most recently on Yellowstone, ABC’s Nashville, HBO’s Banshee, and Masterpiece Theater’s Case Histories. Buy Tickets
27 Sep
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
29.00
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American Elton

From America’s Got Talent, Legends in Concert, for over 15 years and more than 3000 performances as a professional vocalist/pianist Bill Connors has perfected the art of portraying Sir Elton John. Recently he has joined ‘the Greatest Piano Men ‘ show which performs in Las Vegas, sports arenas, top venues, and concert halls across the country. The mannerisms, voice inflections nuances, and style are carefully recreated. His show also features what can’t be learned by impersonators: that uncanny resemblance to Captain Fantastic. The costumes, the color, the fabulous showmanship, time-tested hit songs and audience interaction are all here, making American Elton the hottest ticket in town. Buy Tickets
28 Sep
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
35.00
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October 2024

An Evening with Darrell Scott

Multi-instrumentalist and Singer-Songwriter Darrell Scott mines and cultivates the everyday moment, taking the rote, menial, mundane, and allowing it to be surreal, ever poignant, and candidly honest, lilting, blooming, and resonating. The words he fosters allow us to make sense of the world, what is at stake here, and our place in it. And ultimately, Darrell knows the sole truth of life is that love is all that matters, that we don’t always get it right, but that’s the instinctive and requisite circuitous allure of things, why we forever chase it, and why it is held sacred. After recently touring with Robert Plant and Zac Brown Band (2 years with each), and producing albums for Malcolm Holcombe and Guy Clark and being named “songwriter of the year” for both ASCAP and NSAI, these days find him roaming his Tennessee wilderness acreage hiking along the small river, creating delicious meals with food raised on his property, and playing music. He often leads songwriting workshops to help people tell their own truths with their stories, and is as busy as always writing, producing, performing, and just plain fully immersing himself in life. Buy Tickets
04 Oct
7:30 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
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603 Music: An Evening of Singer Songwriters

Join us for a return performance by 2 of the area’s top singer-songwriters! Cosy Sheridan Cosy Sheridan has been called one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters, and also ‘a buddhist monk trapped in the body of a singer-songwriter’. Her music regularly tops the folk radio charts. Her CD, Pretty Bird, was listed among Sing Out Magazine’s Great CDs of 2014. Her concerts are wide-ranging explorations: ragtime guitar and social satire, modern renditions of mythology ( meet Hades the Biker ) and tales of modern adulthood. Her alter ego, Chlamydia, sometimes appears with songs such as “Botox Tango” or “Multiply Pierced.” The Cornell Folksong Society wrote: “Sheridan is frank, feisty, sublimely and devilishly funny. She fuses myth with modern culture; Persephone with Botox.” Kate Redgate Just a girl, a guitar, and a lifetime of stories put into song. Kate Redgate’s music is a mixture of rock and roll, folk, roots-rock and country. The result of a high school dropout using time well spent absorbing her early influences: the ones she heard as a kid on the loudspeakers at the Illinois Boots and Saddle Club, the ones she saved money and hitched rides to buy recordings of at the […]
05 Oct
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
29.00
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Candlelight: The Best of The Beatles

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Manchester. Get your tickets now to discover the music of The Beatles at The Rex Theatre under the gentle glow of candlelight. Buy Tickets Tentative Program Here Comes The Sun I Want To Hold Your Hand Help! Michelle Penny Lane Come Together We Can Work It Out While My Guitar Gently Weeps Lady Madonna Blackbird Here, There, and Everywhere Eleanor Rigby Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Yesterday With A Little Help From My Friends Hey Jude
09 Oct
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
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Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Manchester, NH. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Taylor Swift at The Rex Theatre under the gentle glow of candlelight. Buy Tickets Tentative Program “Lavender Haze” “Love Story” “Cardigan” “Blank Space” “Enchanted” “Anti-Hero” “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” “All Too Well” “Wildest Dreams” “Lover” “I Knew You Were Trouble” “You Belong With Me”
09 Oct
8:30 pm - 9:35 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
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An Evening with Amy Helm and Band

When creating her fourth album, the soulful and reflective Silver City, Amy Helm was guided by her North Star: women’s voices. “Women whispering, singing, shouting their stories – speaking the truth. I wanted to dig into that inherited narrative and reach for what I could.” The epistolary anthology is a collection of conversations that travel through time, exploring and celebrating womanhood in all its complexities. Silver City blends the folk twang of Helm’s childhood with gospel and soul, drawing inspiration from varied stories: the life of Helm’s great-grandmother, the story of a young fan struggling with substance abuse, Helm’s own life as a single mother and hard-touring singer. Recorded at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, New York, and produced by Josh Kaufman, the album finds Helm exploring themes of womanhood, single motherhood, and personal struggles, offering songs that are deeply personal and narrative-driven. With Silver City, Helm embraces the beauty of age, survival, and transformation through her powerful, story-rooted performances. Buy Tickets
10 Oct
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Rex Theatre
23 Amherst Street
49.00
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The Rex Theatre

23 Amherst Street
Manchester, NH 03101
Mail: [email protected]
Phone: 603.668.5588

REX THEATRE PARKING

There are plenty of parking options that make spending a night at the theatre fun and easy.

VICTORY PARKING GARAGE

The Victory Parking Garage is city-owned.
Procedure for parking meters:
1. Find available space and remember your space number
2. Walk to street level corner stairwell or front of office location and find pay by space meter
3. Follow instructions on meter (coins and credit only, no dollar bills) @0.75 hour / max of $6.00
4. Please remember to pay before leaving garage.
Note: Parking is free after 8PM on Fridays, and on weekends and Holidays.

VIP PARKING LOT

Limited spots available. To reserve your spot, click here.

The Palace Theatres has acquired the parking lot at 77 Amherst St and theatre patrons may now reserve a parking spot when attending a show. The lot opens 90 minutes before show time and closes 30 minutes after the show ends. The parking reservation times will be listed on the reservation ticket. 

VIP parking patrons will be able to enter the Palace Theatre through the back via the red “Star Door”, only a few feet from the parking lot. *Please note – this entrance has stairs. VIP parking is not recommended for those requiring handicap access.

Note: Once purchased, your ticket must be presented in order to enter the parking lot at 77 Amherst St. 

Parking is only allowed during the times listed on the ticket. Violators will be towed and future parking privileges denied.

CITIZENS BANK PARKING LOT

The Citizens Bank parking lot next to the Palace is now privately owned and managed, and charges fees that are not associated with the Palace Theatre.
Note: Only credit cards will be accepted as a mode of payment

ON STREET PARKING

On-street parking is typically $0.75 an hour. Be aware that some on-street parking meters have a two-hour limit. Read meters for specific details and applicable hours.
Note: On-street parking is free after 8PM on Fridays and all day on weekends and Holidays.