BWW Reviews: VIGIL Challenges Portland Stage Audience
The Portland Stage production of Canadian playwright Morris Panych's black comedy, Vigil, is a provocative and challenging mounting of an often off-putting play.
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BWW Reviews: Theater at Monmouth Stages Youthful TWELFTH NIGHT
Maine's Shakespeare Theater at Monmouth staged a vigorous, youthful adaptation of Shakespeare's 'joyous comedy,' Twelfth Night, this weekend at the historic Cumston Hall.
BWW Reviews: Good Theater's CLYBOURNE PARK Takes Incisive Aim at Racism
Portland's (Maine) Good Theater opened its 2013-2014 season with an incisive production of Bruce Norris' 2011 Pultizer Prize winning drama, Clybourne Park.
BWW Reviews: Portland Stage Cries the Blues in MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
'Blues are a way of understanding,' Ma Rainey tells her band in the second act of August Wilson's 1984 play set in a 1920s recording studio in Jim Crow era Chicago.
BWW Reviews: Ogunquit Playhouse Mounts Muscular and Thrilling WEST SIDE STORY
?The Ogunquit Playhouse's revival of the legendary Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents-Robbins classic, West Side Story, which opened September 5th pulsates with muscular energy and wrenching pathos.
BWW Reviews: Lewiston-Auburn Community Little Theatre's SPAMALOT Delivers Laughs
The Lewiston-Auburn Community Little Theatre, one of Maine's oldest community theatres, is closing its 2012-2013 season with a madcap production of Monty Python's Spamalot.
BWW Reviews: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECNICOLOR DREAMCOAT is More Than 'Amazing' at The Ogunquit Playhouse
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's names have become synonymous with musical theatre.
BWW Reviews: The East Coast Regional Premiere of MARY POPPINS at Maine State Music Theatre is Magic
There's something very special about a story that can instantly make people of any age feel like a child again.
BWW Reviews: You 'Can't Help Falling In Love' with ALL SHOOK UP at The Arundel Barn Playhouse
On August 16, 1977 we lost an American music and cultural icon: Elvis Presley.
BWW Reviews: Freeport Players Romp Through THE 39 STEPS
On Sunday, August 4, 2013, in Freeport, Maine, the Freeport Players delivered a lively, riotously funny and highly inventive performance of the suspense comedy, The 39 Steps, adapted by Patrick Barlow from the John Buchan novel and Alfred Hitchcock film.
BWW Reviews: THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING at the Theater At Monmouth is a Heartbreaking, 'Magical' Performance
Shows featuring a solitary performer onstage are a hell of a thing.
BWW Reviews: OUR TOWN at the Theater At Monmouth; Wilder's Masterpiece Comes To Life
When Thornton Wilder premiered his new play OUR TOWN in 1938, I would wager that more than one person left the theatre asking why anyone would want to watch the lives of "ordinary" people on stage.
BWW Reviews: SHREK THE MUSICAL at the Arundel Barn Playhouse; New England Premiere Lets its Freak Flag Fly
There are many challenges that face a theatre who chooses to mount such a difficult production.
BWW Reviews: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN at The Ogunquit Playhouse: Bring Your Tissues; You Will Laugh Until You Cry
It's hard to imagine the existence of the modern musical comedy without the likes of Mel Brooks.
BWW Reviews: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at Theater at Monmouth; These Talented Actors Cannot be Tamed
Disguises, mistaken identity, lies that beget other lies; these are the calling cards of modern television sitcoms, and farce on stage.
BWW Reviews: Young Musicians Demonstrate Mature Talent
The Fourth of July weekend continued at the Bowdoin International Music Festival with an exciting showcase of the festival's young talent: a four-hour lineup of back to back concerts in the Artists of Tomorrow series.
BWW Reviews: Bowdoin International Music Festival Presents a Dazzling Evening of American Music
"Three hundred miles north of everywhere," the small but bustling college town of Brunswick, Maine, attracts some of the world's most prestigious musicians to its summer festival.
BWW Reviews: KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE at the Theater at Monmouth keeps the Laughter 'Burning' Bright
Whether it be live theatre or cinema, most theatergoers are looking for entertainment and often an escape.
BWW Reviews: CHICAGO at the Arundel Barn Playhouse is 'All That Jazz'
"They'll love you a lot more if you hang.
BWW Reviews: Theatre Weekends In Brunswick, Maine
Brusnwick, Maine is home to galleries, restaurants, Bowdoin College, and Maine State Music Theatre.
BWW Reviews: THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE at the Ogunquit Playhouse is Thoroughly PERFECT
The annals of music theatre are dotted with plenty of amazing and award winning shows.
BWW Reviews: HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES at Hackmatack Playhouse May Leave You Howling at the Moon
Similar shows exist elsewhere in our current theatre landscape, in both plays and musical theatre.
BWW Reviews: THE ANDREWS BROTHERS at the Arundel Barn Playhouse
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
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1776 Maine State Music Theatre (6/24-7/11) |
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Disney's Frozen Maine State Music Theatre (7/15-8/01) |
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The Fantasticks Penobscot Theatre Company (6/13-7/12) |
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Come From Away Maine State Music Theatre (8/05-8/22) |
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The Wizard of Oz! L/A Community Little Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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Runaway Princess by Mary Goggin The Playhouse At Waterville Station (8/07-8/09) |
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Hello, Dolly! OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE (6/18-7/18) |
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Disney & Pixar's FINDING NEMO: A 60-Minute Family Musical Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine (6/27-8/23) |
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You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Orion Performing Arts Center (7/17-7/26) |
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Robin & Clark's The Little Mermaid Maine State Music Theatre (7/20-7/20) |