BWW Review: LET IT BE Honors the Music
LET IT BE celebrates the Beatles music with glimpses of the era from whence it came.
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BWW Review: Raymond Marc Dumont Directs a Difficult, Disturbing, and Brilliant THE WILD PARTY
An air of curiosity and expectation was in the air at the opening of Andrew Lippa's THE WILD PARTY at South Portland's Portland Players.
BWW Review: Midcoast Symphony Presents Stirring VERDI REQUIEM
Music Director Rohan Smith has certainly taken this fine community orchestra to a new level of excellence.
Summer Stages in Maine: A Sampling
With miles of pristine coastline, picturesque villages, excellent dining and shopping, Maine is a summer mecca for tourists.
BWW Review: CROSSING DELANCEY Projects Cozy Warmth
Lewiston's Public Theatre's closing play of the 2015-2016 season, Susan Sandler's Crossing Delancey is the perfect Mother's Day offering, projecting cozy warmth and fond memories of an unforgettable Jewish grandmother.
BWW Review: Commedia dell'Arte Meets Political Farce at Portland Stage
Portland Stage closes its season with Dario Fo's 1974 play, They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay!, in the playwright's signature style of provocative socialist politics and broad Commedia dell'Arte farce.
BWW Review: A Love Letter to Theatre's Golden Age, ACT ONE Triumphs at the Good Theater
Portland's Good Theater is closing, what has been a highly adventurous and challenging fourteenth season, with a triumphant production of Act One, James Lapine's play based on the autobiography of Moss Hart.
MARY POPPINS Delights at Waterville Opera House
A full house of children and adults greeted the Disney musical Mary Poppins with exuberant delight at the historic Waterville Opera House this weekend.
BWW Review: Of Art, Tradition, and the Search for Self: Portland Stage's MY NAME IS ASHER LEV
Portland Stage's latest production of Aaron Posner's 2014 adaptation of Chaim Potok's novel, My Name Is Asher Lev, is a touching account of a young Jewish man's quest to become an artist and to reconcile his vocation with the traditions and expectations of his Orthodox family and community.
BWW Review: Portland Players Does Justice to Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE
Choosing to mount Arthur Miller's enduring classic, The Crucible, can be tricky business.
BWW Review: Mad Horse Theatre Stages New Play by Maine Playwright
Mad Horse Theatre company has mounted a full production of Brent Askari's savvy, subtle, sometimes serious comedy, Digby's Home as its third main stage production of the 2015-2016 season, having first been introduced the work to Portland audience's at the company's BY LOCAL series.
BWW Review: Sweet and Sad SECRET GARDEN Graces Lyric Music Theater's Stage
Portland's Lyric Music Theater has mounted a sweetly sad production of the Marsha Norman-Lucy Simon musical version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel, The Secret Garden, that is sure to touch the hearts of young and old alike.
BWW Review: City Theater's NEXT TO NORMAL Is Stunning!
Attempting a production of the complex and heart-wrenching Pulitzer Prize winning musical, Next To Normal, in a small theatre in Maine is in itself a bold bit of programming, but to pull it off with such dazzling aplomb is absolutely extraordinary! This is precisely what Biddeford City Theater's Ar
BWW Review: LOST BOY IN WHOLE FOODS Offers Thought-Provoking Drama
Portland Stage's latest production of Tammy Ryan's 2009 play, Lost Boy in Whole Foods, offers a thought-provoking encounter with several extremely topical issues, among them the impact of immigration, the obligation to refugees, the clash of cultures, and the meaning and motives for good deeds.
BWW Review: Footlights Theatre Showcases Endearing New Comedy
The tiny Footlights Theatre in Falmouth, ME, has a hit on its hands with the endearing new comedy, Leonora Rabinowitz, I Love You, by local writers Hal J.
BWW Review: Portland Stage Presents Gleeful Send-up of Sherlock Holmes
Portland Stage's gleeful, wickedly funny send-up of the Sherlock Holmes classic, Hound of the Baskervilles, as adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson, makes for a perfect antidote to the winter blues! Mounted with breathless energy by director Daniel Burson and brought to life by an agile, inven
BWW Review: Theater Project Presents Sparkling Production of THE LIAR
Brunswick's Theater Project has mounted a sparkling production of David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's The Liar, offering the audience a rare treat to be able to enjoy this seventeenth century comedy in Ives' witty, linguistically rich "translaptation.
BWW Review: Good Theater Romps in SHEAR MADNESS
Another chapter in the thirty-seven year history of Paul Portner's interactive comedy, Shear Madness, has opened on the stage of Portland's Good Theater, and the side-splittingly funny, quick-paced murder mystery which Brian P.
BWW Review: LADIES FOURSOME Explores the Secrets of Friendship
Golf is a game which requires patience and strategy, and in many ways, so does Norm Foster's 2014 comedy, The Ladies Foursome, mounted by Lewiston's Public Theatre.
BWW Review: Sondheim and SWEENEY TODD Electrify Lyric Music Theater
Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd with its complex through-composed score and dark ironies is an ambitious undertaking for any company, but South Portland's Lyric Music Theater rises to the challenge in an economical and electrifying performance that keeps the audience riveted to its seats.
BWW Review: This Year's BROADWAY AT GOOD THEATER Is Bigger, Brighter, and Bolder!
The annual Christmastime musical revue which the Good Theater presents has grown incrementally bigger, more complex, more sparkling, and more striking each season.
BWW Critic's Choices: Best of Maine 2015
The theatrical scene continued to be lively in Maine this year, with the Portland-area theatres presenting a number of stunning world premieres and the musical theatre scene gloriously vibrant.
BWW Review: Lyric Music Theater's MUSIC MAN Has Heart and Hometown Charm
South Portland's venerable community theatre consistently presents ambitious and stylish productions of the standard Broadway canon, but in undertaking that most iconic of American musicals, The Music Man, it has demonstrated its extraordinary mettle and risen to the challenge with excellence.
BWW Review: Portland Stage Examines Martin Luther King as Man and Myth
Revisiting the traumas of the 1960s has been the subject of two recent plays which have debuted in Portland.
BWW Review: Good Theater's World Premiere of Urbinati Play Is Gripping Theatre at Its Best
In mounting the world premiere of Rob Urbinati's new play, Mama's Boy, Good Theater's Artistic Director Brian P.
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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) |