BWW Reviews: Lyric Music Theater Serves Up Sophisticated Sondheim
Lyric Music Theater has mounted a dazzling new hit to brighten the waning days of winter.
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BWW Reviews: Studio Theatre of Bath Mpounts Thoughtful, Poignant Elephant Man
In undertaking Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play, The Elephant Man, the Studio Theatre of Bath delivers a remarkably thoughtful performance of the poignant period drama.
BWW Reviews: Public Theatre Explores the Absurd Side of Dysfunction
Lewiston's Public Theatre has mounted a stylish, wistful, zany production of Kim Rosenstock's Tigers Be Still, a bittersweet comedy that looks at the absurd side of dysfunction.
BWW reviews: Words by Ira Gershwin Articulates the Alchemy of a Song
Portland Stage's stylish and stirring production of Words by Ira Gershwin and the Great American Songbook offers fascinating insight into the alchemy of a song.
BWW Reviews: Langston Hughes' BLACK NATIVITY Lights Up Brunswick Christmas
In 1961 at the 41st Street Theatre in New York City, African-American poet-playwright Langston Hughes premiered a work called Black Nativity, a collection of gospel songs punctuated by Hughes's own verse narrating the birth of Jesus.
BWW Reviews: Portland Stage's SANTALAND DIARIES Is Wicked Good Fun
Portland Stage Studio Theatre's Christmas reprise of David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries is eighty-five minutes of rollicking, wicked good fun (as Mainers like to say!).
BWW Reviews: South Portland Comes Alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC
The Portland Players choice of Rogers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music for their holiday season is a joyous one for cast and audience alike.
BWW Reviews: A.R. Gurney In THE GRAND MANNER at the Good Theater
The Good Theater's (Portland, ME) New England premiere of A.
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.
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.
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Æther and Unearthed Westbrook Performing Arts Center (9/19-9/19) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! Monmouth Savoy Theatre (3/05-3/05) |
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Heart of Duckness by A.J. Ditty Portland Stage Studio Theater (8/20-9/04) PHOTOS |
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The Producers OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE (8/27-9/26) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Patricia Quinn Waterville Opera House (10/24-10/24) |
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Rainbow Kitten Surprise Thompson's Point (9/13-9/13) |
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Stroll Haunted Yarmouth 2026 Royal River Community Players (10/14-10/25) |
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AUDITIONS: A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL City Theater (9/14-9/15) |
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Frozen the Broadway Musical Waterville Opera House (11/13-11/29) |
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Small Town- A World Premiere John Mellencamp Musical OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE (10/01-11/01) |