Direct Your Support

Your monthly gift provides unrestricted support for The Hanover Theatre & Conservatory, allowing us to fulfill our mission to ignite and nurture a passion for the performing arts in audiences and artists of today and tomorrow.

The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory Fund provides unrestricted support for the maintenance of our historic theatre, enables us to respond to unanticipated opportunities and urgent needs, and contributes to our long-term sustainability. Gifts to The Hanover Theatre Fund are an especially effective way to show your support.

We are committed to ensuring that young people in our community have access to the transformative power of the performing arts.

Your gift to the Access to the Arts Fund provides vital support for our school partnerships, community engagement activities, and Conservatory programs that serve more than 15,000 young people every year, many of whom would otherwise not have opportunities to participate in the arts.  You can learn more about the activities supported by the Access to the Arts Fund here:

A new initiative, The Hanover Theatre Repertory (THT Rep) is committed to engaging, entertaining and energizing audiences with dynamic theatrical events made in and for Worcester. THT Rep is bringing an exciting new voice to Worcester’s thriving cultural scene. Your donation will support productions of classics, modern classics and classics-inspired works that showcase artists from across the region and our own community.

Help secure an iconic piece of America’s musical history.

The Hanover Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer is the largest theatre pipe organ in New England. Once a fixture in luxurious vaudeville theatres and movie palaces across the country, today these magnificent instruments have largely disappeared. Thanks to the extraordinary dedication and generosity of Donald Phipps and a dedicated group of volunteers, The Hanover Theatre is now home to a majestic 2,500-pipe theatre pipe organ that can be heard on our silent movie nights, in our annual production of A Christmas Carol, and at special events throughout the year.

Assembled and donated to the theatre by Donald Phipps, the Mighty Wurlitzer is recognized as one of the cultural jewels of the city.  A board director of the Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society, Phipps and his passion in restoring the Wurlitzer Organ follows in the footsteps of our theatre’s founders, with their vision of restoring a treasured piece of our history and celebrating our cultural heritage.

Your gift to the Mighty Wurlitzer Fund provides support for the stewardship of this rare instrument for the Worcester community.

Providing outstanding training in the arts.

Participation in the arts has a profound and far-reaching developmental and emotional impact on young people, and too many families in our community do not have access to arts programming in or out of school. Each year, The Hanover Theatre Conservatory provides need-based scholarships for classes and programs that offer performance opportunities and training in theatre, dance, music and technical theatre & design. Gifts to the Scholarship Fund help to make these transformative experiences available to young people who would otherwise be unable to participate.

Gifts of $1,000 or more are eligible for named scholarship recognition. Contact Veronica Bailey, development operations manager, at 508.471.1772 or [email protected] with any questions.