BWW Reviews: Lyric Music Theater Presents Saucy, Unconventional Parable
South Portland's Lyric Music Theater opened its 2014-2015 season with a stylish, saucy production of the 2003 Tony award-winning musical Avenue Q.
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BWW Reviews: Strong Voices Perk Up TAM's Gilbert and Sullivan
As has been the tradition for quite a few seasons, Theater at Monmouth ends its season with a production of one of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operettas.
BWW Reviews: Sassy, Sexy, WITCHES OF EASTWICK at Ogunquit Playhouse
There are hot, sassy witches flying about the Ogunquit Playhouse in a production of The Witches of Eastwick, a musical comedy that has some memorable characters, high energy music and a fabulous set design.
BWW Reviews: CABARET Sizzles and Sears in Mad Horse Theatre-Razer Entertainment's Production
The new production of Cabaret mounted by South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre together with Razer Entertainment, sizzles with tension and sears with emotion.
BWW Reviews: Can't Sit Still at FOOTLOOSE
Early in the first act of the Tom Snow - Dean Pitchford 1998 musical Footloose, Ren declares his passion for dancing - 'I can't sit still' - and, indeed, by the end of the evening at the Pickard Theatre, the audience for Maine State Music Theatre echoes his mantra.
BWW Reviews: MARY POPPINS Soars at Ogunquit
The Banks family at 17 Cherry Tree Lane is creating their own reality television show in the current production of Mary Poppins at the Ogunquit Playhouse.
BWW Reviews: TAM Stages Compellingly Honest ROMEO AND JULIET
Doing justice to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, one of the most beloved and most often quoted plays in the repertoire, can be a daunting task, but the Theater at Monmouth has assembled a youthful cast and given the Bard's tragedy an honest reading - one which compensates for what it may lack in pas
BWW Reviews: Tomorrow's Stars Shine in GODSPELL
The intern program at Maine State Music Theatre is one of the company's finest features, and what better way to showcase these talented 2014 performers than as the youthful, energetic ensemble in the Steven Schwartz/John-Michael Tebelak rock musical, GODSPELL.
BWW Reviews: MSMT's SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS Dazzles the Eye and Warms the Heart
For its third production of the season, Maine State Music Theatre has staged a dazzling revival of the beloved 1954 classic, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
BWW Reviews: THE FULL MONTY at City Theater - Fun & Nudity in Maine
While you may be primed for seeing the stage version of The Full Monty based on seeing the movie of the same name, you'll be surprised that the stage show presents in depth characters, emotional scenes and true life situations that make great storytelling.
BWW Reviews: Stars of MSMT's SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS Reimagine Their Roles
'What I love that Patti [Colombo] is doing with this show is that she is not making it a sepia-toned romance,' declares Jarid Faubel, the actor who portrays Adam Pontipee in Maine State Music Theatre's new production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, directed and choreographed by Patti Colombo, wh
BWW Reviews: Ogunquit Playhouse Mounts Regional Premiere of BILLY ELLIOT
Assembling a stellar cast and creative team, the Ogunquit Playhouse has mounted a powerful production of the Elton John-Lee Hall 2005 musical, Billy Elliot.
BWW Reviews: Grand and Glorious CHAMBERLAIN Stirs the Heart
Maine State Music Theatre's second production of the season, a revival of the Knapp-Alper 1996 musical Chamberlain A Civil War Romance, proves to be a grand and glorious theatrical experience, an endeavor of epic proportions that delivers spectacle, emotion, and inspiration in equal measure.
BWW Reviews: The Day the Music Lived: MSMT Opens Season with The Buddy Holly Story
To witness an entire audience on its feet, joyfully clapping, singing, and dancing into the aisles, one might have imagined rocking at Woodstock rather than in picturesque college town of Brunswick, ME.
BWW Reviews: Haunting Season Finale at Mad Horse Theatre
South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre Company ended its season with a poignant and ambitious production of the Tony-award-winning musical, Grey Gardens.
BWW Reviews : Ogunquit Playhouse Opens with GREASE
In an Ogunquit Playhouse season that will launch regional premieres of Billy Elliot, The Witches of Eastwick, The Addams Family and performances of an all time favorite, Mary Poppins, the season opener of Grease is a musical lightweight.
BWW Reviews: Public Theatre Ends Season with Slapstick Comedy
Lewiston's Public Theatre ended its 2013-2014 season with Ron Hutchinson's slapstick sendup about the script writing of Gone with the Wind, Moonlight and Magnolias.
BWW Reviews: THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION Offers Saucy and Serious Wit
Portland Stage closes its 2013-2014 season with a sharp production of Evan Smith's saucy, yet serious comedy, The Savannah Disputation, as play which examines the foibles of faith and the thorny issues of religious dogma.
Summer Stages: Maine's Theatre Samplings
With the snow finally off the ground, birds returning home, and the beaches beckoning, it is once again summertime in Maine.
BWW Reviews: Good Theater's UNDERWATER GUY Lifts Performance Art to the Poetic
Portland's Good Theater closed its season with a highly original and poetic premiere of Stephen Underwood's multi-media performance piece, Underwater Guy.
BWW Reviews: Maine State Ballet's CINDERELLA Glitters
With its new production of Cinderella, the Maine State Ballet, one of only a handful of professional classical dance organizations in the state, proved the saying that 'everything is beautiful at the ballet.
BWW Review: TRIBES Explores the Bonds of Speaking and Listening
Portland Stage's production of Nina Raine's 2010 play,Tribes, offers a thoughtful exploration of the bonds forged by communication.
BWW Reviews: Elegant PRIVATE LIVES Graces Portland Players' Stage
Noel Coward's 1930 romantic comedy is a perennial pleasure, but one which requires an impeccable sense of period style and elan.
BWW Reviews: Wrenching Production of ORPHANS Ignites Mad Horse Theater
The tiny Mad Horse Theater in South Portland, Maine, has proved once again that it is capable of and committed to producing provocative, exciting, even difficult plays and doing just that with consummate style! Its latest endeavor, a gut-wrenching production of Lyle Kessler's 1983 Drama League Award
BWW Reviews: World Premiere of VEILS Tackles Thorny Cultural Issues
In presenting the world premiere of Tom Coash's play, Veils, the winner of the 2012 Clauder Competition for New England playwrights, Portland Stage has introduced audiences to a brave new work which addresses the thorny crosscurrents of cultural identity.
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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) |