Interview: COMMUNITY & COMING TOGETHER
Maine State Music Theatre concluded its 2026 Peek Behind the Curtain Series on August 12th with a discussion devoted to the theatre’s hit production of COME FROM AWAY.
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Review: MSMT YOUTH COMPANY SHINES IN MATILDA, JR. THE MUSICAL
For the past five years Maine State Music Theatre has been growing and refining a program known as its summer intensive, a pre-professional theatre training opportunity for youngsters ages eight to eighteen, which culminates in a full scale production on the main stage each August.
Review: MATILDA THE MUSICAL at Hackmatack Playhouse
Hackmatack’s production delivers a strong message with singing, dancing, silliness and heart.
Review: Welcome To The Rock: MSMT'S COME FROM AWAY Radiates Inspiration
Maine State Music Theatre's production of Come From Away is a stirring tribute to compassion in the face of tragedy.
Review: CITY OF ANGELS at Ogunquit Playhouse
It is hard to believe that City of Angels debuted nearly four decades ago.
Review: BRUNSWICK CELEBRATES MIDSUMMER IN HIGH STYLE
For almost a decade now, MSMT, together with the Brunswick downtown Association’s Music on the Mall, has presented, on the town green, a large outdoor concert free for the citizens of Brunswick, greater Maine and beyond.
Review: MSMT'S THE LITTLE MERMAID: A Timeless Tale of Love & Redemption
Marc Robin and Curt Dale Clark‘s musical theatre adaptation of The Little Mermaid, a tale of love and redemption, sings with a fresh, modern spirit at Maine State Music Theatre’s Family Series.
Review: MAGIC, WONDER, & TRUE HEART in Disney's FROZEN at Pickard
Maine State Music Theatre celebrates Mid-summer with a dazzling production of Disney’s FROZEN, brilliantly directed and choreographed by Marc Robin.
1776, COME FROM AWAY & More Lead Maine Theatre Summer Picks
Though for many residents and folks from away, summer in Maine signifies a chance to revel in gorgeous scenery - beaches, lakes, trails – summer is also time to enjoy two of Maine’s premiere regional companies, Maine State Music Theatre and Ogunquit Playhouse.
Review: THE LABORS OF LIBERTY: MSMT'S 1776 CHRONICLES THE BIRTH OF OUR NATION
What better way to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence than by mounting a stirring production of the musical 1776.
Review: HELLO DOLLY! at Ogunquit Playhouse
Beth Leavel leads a spectacular Hello Dolly Ogunquit production, packed with dazzling sets, showstopping dance numbers, and old-school Broadway splendor.
Review: SHREK THE MUSICAL at Maine State Music Theater
A giant green man with a booming brogue, a talking donkey, a wooden boy with a long nose, a wolf in granny skirts….
Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD-THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS at Ogunquit Playhouse
Jukebox musicals are practically a summer tradition at the Ogunquit Playhouse.
Review: OUT OF NOWHERE TOUR 2026: TIG NOTARO at State Theatre in Portland, Maine
What did our critic think of OUT OF NOWHERE TOUR 2026: TIG NOTARO at State Theatre?
Review: WHITE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL at The Music Hall by the Ogunquit Playhouse
It is a clear sign of the December holidays when the Oqunquit Playhouse brings its theatrical magic to The Music Hall in Portsmouth.
Review: DIRTY DEEDS DOWNEAST at Portland Stage
In his well-wrought new comedy/mystery/romance, homegrown playwright Brent Askari seeks to scratch the surface and look a little deeper into the soul of a seemingly placid island community off the coast of Maine.
Review: WE ARE WATER: A NORTHEAST CELEBRATION at Merrill Auditorium,
We’ve all needed a bit more water this year to ease the drought.
Review: TITANIC: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse
How does a regional theater, limited by its stage, capture the scale of the “ship of dreams”—a floating city of steel—while simultaneously honoring the desperate intimacy of the 1,517 souls who perished?
Review: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU at Good Theater
Are weddings where people sometimes find themselves “happily unhappy”? That contradiction and it’s overcoming is at the heart of It Shoulda Been You, the first mainstage production presented at the new home of Portland’s Good Theater.
Review: MURDER FOR TWO at Portland Stage
The scenes may seem a little frenzied in the 2025 late-summer show at Maine’s Portland Stage.
Review: HIGH SOCIETY at Ogunquit Playhouse
The brassy stage musical, High Society, is currently holding court at the Ogunquit Playhouse in a production that was specifically reimagined from Philip Barry's play The Philadelphia Story (and its iconic film counterpart), for the hallowed playhouse.
Review: Can't Stand Still: FOOTLOOSE Explodes Onto MSMT Stage
Bursting with energy and pulsating with a heartwarming story of forgiveness and family, Maine State Music Theatre’s new production of FOOTLOOSE serves up both a genuinely poignant tale and a dance extravaganza.
Review: TWELFTH NIGHT at The Theater at Monmouth
Lovers go wild again in Illyria as Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night gets a spirited repertory run at Maine’s own Theater at Monmouth.
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ogunquit Playhouse
'Come From Away,' a contemporary musical by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, is currently playing at the Ogunquit Playhouse, and it's truly a testament to the power of human kindness.
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