BWW Review: Public Theatre Opens with Finely Tuned WAIT UNTIL DARK
Lewiston's Public Theatre opened its twenty-fifth season with a finely tuned, engrossing production of Frederick Knott's classic thriller, Wait Until Dark.
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BWW Review: Portland Stage's DANCING AT LUGHNASA Plumbs Realm of Memory
Portland Stage opened its 2015-2016 season with a thought-provoking production of Irish playwright Brian Friel's award-winning drama Dancing at Lughnasa, a wistful memory play about a matriarchal family in County Donegal in 1936.
BWW Review: Good Theater Opens with Stylish Revue
Portland's Good Theater opened its 2015-2016 season with No Biz Like Show Biz, a stylish tribute to two legends of the Broadway stage, Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, created and directed by the company's artistic director, Brian P.
BWW Review: Lyric's ADDAMS FAMILY Explores the Wacky Side of Darkness
Lyric Music Theater of South Portland opened its 2015-16 season with the wacky musical The Addams Family, which examines the flip side of normal in the zany antics of a ghoulish family made famous by the Charles Addams comic strip, as well as various television and screen incarnations.
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET at Ogunquit Playhouse
The songs of the early rock and roll awakening, still rock and roll in Ogunquit Playhouse's newest production of Million Dollar Quartet.
BWW Review: RUTHLESS at Hackmatack Playhouse
'The show is chocked full of camp and kitschy humor, making for a perfect date night or family outing.
BWW Review: MSMT Delights Family Audiences with SHREK Jr., The Musical
As its mainstage season draws to a close, Maine State Music Theatre presented the second of its offerings for young audiences, Shrek Jr.
BWW Reviews: Maine State Ballet Presents Lovely, Lyrical COPPELIA
Maine State Ballet's latest production of Coppelia is marked by a lovely wistfulness and lyricism and bolstered by fine choreography and impressive dancing.
BWW Reviews: MSMT's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Brings Down the House
Maine State Music Theatre marshaled all its resources for the finale of its 2015 season with a stunning production of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, filled with rollicking humor, brilliant dancing, and dazzling design effects that had the opening night audience on their feet cheering not only at cu
BWW Reviews: DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS at Hackmatack Playhouse
Check out the new review for this great theater, and get yourself to the barn!
BWW Reviews: TAM Serves Up Gothic Horror in TURN OF THE SCREW
In this 2015 season of 'Magic, Murder, and Mayhem' Maine's Theater at Monmouth serves up a gripping adaptation of Henry James' familiar tale of psychological Gothic horror, The Turn of the Screw.
BWW Reviews: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT at Ogunquit Playhouse
Great theater happening Maine! Check out the Review on broadwayworld.
BWW Reviews: Bowdoin International Music Festival Friday Shines
Under new artistic leadership this summer after fifty years of visionary music making from festival founder, Lewis Kaplan, the Bowdoin International Music festival continues its tradition of world-class chamber and instrumental music led now by Phillip and David Ying.
BWW Reviews: MSMT Makes MUSIC MAN an Irresistible Valentine
Who doesn't love Meredith Willson's classic musical, Music Man, with its thrilling score, its witty humor, its irresistible combination of bravura and unabashed romanticism?.
BWW REVIEW: Ogunquit's VICTOR/VICTORIA Says Vive la Difference
VICTOR/VICTORIA's gender-bending exploration of sexual identity and orientation may have seemed fresh, even daring, in 1982, but by the time it hit Broadway in 1995 it was already a bit tame.
BWW Reviews: MSMT's SISTER ACT Raises the Rafters in Rejoicing
In the first act of the Menken/Slater/Steinkellner musical comedy, Sister Act, the heroine, Sister Mary Clarence (aka Deloris Van Cartier) tells Mother Superior that song should come from the soul to raise the rafters.
BWW Reviews: MSMT Intern Company Dreams of FAME
'Fame/I'm gonna live forever/I'm gonna learn how to fly.
BWW Reviews: THE FULL MONTY Builds to a Crescendo of Laughter and Heart
The Full Monty, which opened Maine State Music Theatre's fifty-seventh season, has all the makings of a new hit for the company! The rollicking, sometimes raucous story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who create a male strip act to make money has characters to embrace and identify with, clever a
Summer Stages: Theatrical Happenings in Maine 2015
After the impossibly long winter, summer is finally coming to Maine shores, woods, and towns.
BWW Reviews: Gripping Production of OTHER DESERT CITIES Closes Mad Horse Season
South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre Company closes its 2014-2015 season with a gripping rendition of Jon Robin Baitz's 2011 drama, Other Desert Cities.
BWW Interviews: The Pleasures, Perils, and Pitfalls of Casting a Season
Maine State Music Theatre Finds Its Talent for Summer 2015 When the audience thinks of casting for a Broadway musical, they conjure up the image of a darkened auditorium, an artist onstage peering into the glare and hearing Zach's voice from out of the void with its curt dismissal, 'Thank you.
BWW Reviews: Novelist Debuts as Playwright
Portland Stage closes its season with the world premiere of award-winning Maine novelist, Monica Wood's touching first play, Papermaker.
BWW Reiews: Lyric Music Theater Delivers Laughs on Way to Forum
Lyric Music Theater of South Portland presents a rollicking production of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, enlivened by the excellent performances of its leads, the cheeky choreography of Victoria Perreault, and the fast-paced direction of Mary Meserve and John Blan
BWW Reviews: Good Theaer Pays Tribute to Barbra
Portland's Good Theater brings its “lucky” thirteenth season to a close with a delightful original musical revue, Happy Days Are here Again: Streisand's 60s Songbook, dedicated to the legendary Barbra Streisand.
BWW Reviews: Maine State Ballet Mounts Swashbuckling LE CORSAIRE
For its spring production Maine State Ballet presents a stylishly swashbuckling account of Le Corsaire, vividly choreographed by Linda MacArthur Miele (after Petipa) and elegantly designed by Gail Csoboth.
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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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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels City Theater (7/17-8/02) |
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Parker McCollum at Maine Savings Amphitheater Maine Savings Amphitheater (9/03-9/03) |
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Hello, Dolly! OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE (6/18-7/18) |
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Come From Away Maine State Music Theatre (8/05-8/22) |
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Captain Jack & The Strangers: A Tribute to Billy Joel Maine State Music Theatre (7/26-7/27) |
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Guster & The Portland Symphony Orchestra Merrill Auditorium (8/07-8/07) |
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The Fantasticks Penobscot Theatre Company (6/13-7/12) |
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Skylark Music Festival 10 Shapleigh Road (7/11-7/11) |