Somersworth Theatre

83 Main Street,
Somersworth, NH 03878

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Previous Names: Somersworth Opera House

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Somersworth & Strand Theatre - Schedule For Week of April 21, 1930

The building was constructed in the 1840’s. It became the Somersworth Opera House. By 1914 it had been renamed Somersworth Theatre. The Somersworth Theatre is listed as operating in 1941 with 700 seats. The theater was still in operation in 1951 and was closed in the late-1950’s.

An arson fire destroyed the theatre on February 20, 1966.

Contributed by Bryan Krefft

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on August 26, 2025 at 2:54 pm

The Somersworth Theatre building was built in the 1840s, and later first opened as the Somerworth Opera House. Later renamed the Somersworth Theatre by 1914, the Somersworth Theatre most likely closed during the third quarter of the 1950s, as it was purchased by the Beaver Dam Little Group in 1958. The theater itself was destroyed by a fire on February 20, 1966 caused by arson.

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