Weekend Planner: Harlem Globetrotters Heading To Manchester

1. Layup! The Harlem Globetrotters return to the Verizon Wireless Arena on Feb. 23!  Your family’s smiles will begin before you even get to the show as the Harlem Globetrotters 2013 “You Write the Rules” World Tour takes kid participation to a whole new level. For the first time ever, fans will decide the rules for the game that could affect the final outcome. Vote for your favorite, craziest rule now at www.harlemglobetrotters.com, then see the winning rules implemented live into Globetrotter basketball. After the game, Globetrotter stars remain on court for autographs and photographs with fans.* Before the game, take part in a once-in-a-lifetime experience with your family where you get to actually spend time on the court with the Globetrotters – shooting, trying out ball tricks, autographs and photos! The unique 30-minute pre-show, “Magic Pass,” will create memories of a lifetime.

2. You go girl! Divas Through the Decades will be at the Palace Theater on Friday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. An original musical production by Artistic Director Carl Rajotte, Divas Through the Decades celebrates the divas of our time featuring singers and dancers straight from New York City! Often today “diva” is used to describe any extremely independent and wildly talented woman, naturally the term still applies. The Palace Theatre will transport you to another place and time period with every song! For this production The Palace Theatre will be creating lavish costumes, stunning lights, world-class, show stopping vocals and jaw dropping visual effects. 

3. Nice tunes! The Parkington Sisters will be playing at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Friday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m. Raised in a wildly musical household in Welfleet, Mass., the Parkington Sisters create an aural experience that is both magnetic in its delivery and genuine in its emotional impact. Rose, Nora, Sarah, and Ariel Parkington are classically-trained multi-instrumentalists who have combined their talents in composition and songwriting. Indie-folk with a classical twist, their music is embodied by vibrant string arrangements combined with tight, interwoven four-part vocal harmonies and gorgeous, blending voices. Ambitious and intricate, the Parkington Sisters produce an undeniable expression of sisterhood, performing at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, with the Dropkick Murphys,  and opening for Mavis Staples at Boston’s Symphony Hall.

4. Jam! Max Creek will make first appearance at Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry on Friday Feb. 22. Hot off their recent appearance at Jungle Jam, the four day festival in Jaco, Costa Rica that they co-headline with the Grateful Dead’s Bill Kruetzman (Creek guitarist Scott Murawski works double duty and performs with both groups) and shows throughout the Northeast that have featured special guests such as Phish’s Mike Gordon and the Allman Bros’ Oteil Burbridge, Max Creek rides a surging wave of enthusiasm, visible in both the performers and their fanbase, into Londonderry’s Tupelo Music Hall. A little more than a year after the group lost two drummers and gained a drummer and percussionist, the lineup has gelled, the jams are happening, the songs are tight, and the band is exciting. 

5. Murder! Peacock Players, New Hampshire's premiere award winning youth theatre, proudly presents Rumors from Feb. 21 – 24, By Neil Simon directed by Keith Weirich Neil Simon, America’s best-known multi-award winning playwright, excels in presenting the frustrations and vagaries of life with delicious humor. His comic concoction RUMORS is a madcap murder-mystery dinner party where four well-dressed couples gather at the home of Charlie and Myra Brock – to celebrate the wedding anniversary of their hosts. However, they arrive to find that their host is lying upstairs with a bullet hole in his ear lobe, and Myra is nowhere to be seen. One by one, each couple is pitched headlong into high-voltage hilarity as the friends try frantically to protect their host, and themselves, by hiding the evening’s events from the rumor mill of the outside world. Comedy, Rated PG For more information, or to purchase tickets please visit www.peacockplayers.org.