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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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) |