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BWW Review: Warm and Wistful Comedy Explores Family Bonds
Biddeford's City Theater opened its season with a warm, wistful comedy about love and intergenerational relationships in a New Jersey Italian-American family.
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Celebrates 'The Devil's Music'
Ogunquit Playhouse's revival this season of last year's popular success, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, continues to add luster to this thoroughly enjoyable juke box musical about the historic meeting at Sun Records of four of rock n' roll legends, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee L
BWW Review: Gurney's Quietly Poignant LATER LIFE Opens Portland Stage Season
Portland Stage opens its 2016-2017 season with a quietly poignant production of A.
BWW Review: Strong Performances Distinguish Portland Players' BONNIE AND CLYDE
Portland Players opened its 86th season with an intense production of the Ivan Menchell-Don Black-Frank Wildhorn musical, Bonnie and Clyde, about the legendary Depression-era American outlaws.
BWW Review: TAM Season Romps to a Close with BOEING BOEING
The Theater at Monmouth brings its season of French themed plays to a mirthful close with Marc Camoletti's1960s jet-setting bedroom farce Boeing Boeing.
BWW Review: Ogunquit's SEVEN BRIDES Offers Sweetness and Smiles
One of the most popular movie musicals adapted for the stage, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers has enjoyed several notable regional productions in the past few seasons, and the Ogunquit Playhouse's current staging demonstrates once again the nostalgic appeal of this sweet and folksy romantic tale set
BWW Review: BLASTED Searches for the Fuse
Director Lindsey Higgins has audio recordings of British and American politicians play before the action begins in the 60 Grit Theatre Company's production of Sarah Kane's 'Blasted.
BWW Review: Wish, Wish, Wish: The Magic of MSMT's ALADDIN
The young and young at heart were treated to a day of enchantment at Maine State Music Theatre today, when the company presented four performances of Marc Robin and Curt Dale Clark's delightful musical retelling of Aladdin, directed and choreographed by Raymond Marc Dumont.
BWW Review Storytellers, Musicmakers, Dreamers: McCourt's THE IRISH Captivates in Portland
'We are the storytellers; we are the musicmakers; we are the dreamers of dreams.
BWW Review: PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT Rolls Through Ogunquit
You're either on the bus or you're not on the bus, so the old saying goes.
BWW Review: Playful, Joyous MAMMA MIA! Rocks MSMT Stage
The electric, near ecstatic atmosphere in Brunswick's Pickard Theater last night more closely resembled that of a rock concert than a theatre company opening.
BWW Review: The JACK Quartet Says Hello/Goodbye
The Quartet's first Maine concert is one of its last with all of the original members.
TAM's BARBER OF SEVILLE Reminds of Beaumarchais' Modernity
The Theater at Monmouth's new production of Pierre de Beaumarchais' delightful, provocative 18th century comedy, The Barber of Seville, (in translation by Elizabeth Griffith) sparkles not only with saucy wit, but also with a striking modernity.
BWW Review: A Little Touch of Harry in the Night: TAM Opens HENRY V
One of Shakespeare's best-loved history plays, Henry V, opened Friday July 23 at Maine's Theater at Monmouth in a stylish and stirring performance directed by Mark Mineart.
BWW Review: MSMT's FIDDLER Weaves a Rich Tapestry of Tradition, Tears, and Joy
Maine State Music Theatre's third 2016 main stage production is a cause for celebration! After twenty-one years, the beloved Bock-Harnick musical, Fiddler on the Roof returns to the Pickard stage in a monumental production directed and choreographed by Gary John LaRosa, that stunningly weaves a rich
BWW Review: Ogunquit Playhouse's HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Does Justice to This New Musical
Ogunquit Playhouse's third season offering is an epic production of the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz- Peter Parnell musical version of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
BWW Review: Spectacular EVITA Takes MSMT Stage by Storm
Twenty-five years after it was last presented at the Pickard Theater, Andrew Lloyd-Webber/Tim Rice's masterpiece has returned in triumph to Maine State Music Theatre in a stunning new production directed and choreographed by Marc Robin.
BWW Review: TAM Opens Season with CYRANO DE BERGERAC
The Theater at Monmouth kicked off its ambitiously programmed 2016 summer season, Vive La France, with one of the timeless treasures of French theatre, Cyrano de Bergerac.
BWW Review: MSMT's A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING (and Dancing) Lives Up To Its Name
Maine State Music Theatre continues its impressive 2016 lineup of shows with two performances on June 20, 2016, of A Grand Night for Singing, a musical revue conceived by Walter Bobbie to showcase the glorious songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
BWW Review: ANYTHING GOES - Cole Porter Sails On In Style
Stars come out for a spirited take of a classic.
BWW Review: MSMT's JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Brings Magic to Young Audiences
Robin and Clark's musical theatre version of Jack and the Beanstalk, which plays three performances this week at MSMT's Pickard Theater, is a colorful, clever, catchy retelling of a familiar story designed to enchant the entire family.
BWW Interiew: Art That Resonates Within: Talking with Gregg Goodbrod
'We do art because of what it does for us - how it transforms us,' actor Gregg Goodbrod states with quiet conviction.
BWW Review: Breathtakingly Beautiful GHOST Opens MSMT's 2016 Season on an Unforgettable High
Maine State Music Theatre's 2016 opening brought the East Coast premiere of the stunning and soul-stirring new chamber version of Ghost The Musical, and the evening proved to be an extraordinary artistic event! Not only did this production represent an unique collaboration between director/choreog
BWW Review: Mad Horse Theatre's Chekhov Adaptation Marries Existential Angst and Mordent Wit
South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre closed out its season with a prickly and provocative production of Aaron Posner's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull - Stupid F**king Bird - a contemporary "deconstruction" which brilliantly mines the inherent humor as well as the aching ennui of the Russian
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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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You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Orion Performing Arts Center (7/17-7/26) |
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City of Angels OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE (7/23-8/22) |
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Rainbow Kitten Surprise Thompson's Point (9/13-9/13) |
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical Jr. Maine State Music Theatre (8/10-8/10) |
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Parker McCollum at Maine Savings Amphitheater Maine Savings Amphitheater (9/03-9/03) |
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The Producers OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE (8/27-9/26) |
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Small Town- A World Premiere John Mellencamp Musical OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE (10/01-11/01) |
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The Wizard of Oz! Community Little Theatre Corp (8/07-8/16) |