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The Maine Playwrights Festival (MPF), now entering it's 13th year, has announced the performance schedule for this year's event, which takes place at the St.

Portland Ovations presents, in collaboration with SPACE Gallery, the poignant and provocative Who's Hungry for 4 performances at SPACE Gallery today, April 10th at 8 pm, April 11th at 8 pm and Saturday April 12th at 2 pm and 8 pm.

Rehearsals are underway for the crown jewel of Penobscot Theatre Company's 40th-anniversary season: OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder.

Good Theater has announced the world premiere of Stephen Underwood's UNDERWATERGUY playing April 2-13 for twelve performances at the St.

Portland Stage's production of Nina Raine's 2010 play,Tribes, offers a thoughtful exploration of the bonds forged by communication.

"IT'S ALIIIIIVE!" From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation The Producers, comes this monster of a new musical, based on the 1974 comedic film masterpiece written by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder! This winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award is not without scary and hilarious co

The board of directors of Lyric Music Theater is pleased to announce they have been awarded an Allstate Agency Hands in the Community grant for $1,000.

This summer, The Public Theatre, Lewiston/Auburn's Professional Theatre, will offer a professional theatre training program for young actors, July 7-25, 2014.

Noel Coward's 1930 romantic comedy is a perennial pleasure, but one which requires an impeccable sense of period style and elan.

Naked Shakespeare, Acorn Productions' acting company dedicated to presenting the works of the Bard in non-traditional venues without sets, lights, and costumes, resumes its monthly series of free performances of scenes and soliloquies in April.

Registration is now open for Penobscot Theatre Company's Dramatic Academy Summer 2014, and students aged 4 to 20 are encouraged to sign-up.

While imprisoned in Ravenbruck concentration camp for women in World War II Germany, Germaine Tillion, a French ethnologist and Resistance fighter, secretly wrote an operetta script that turned her own experiences into a powerful testament to the triumph of humanity.

Several non-profits have already signed up for fundraising at Hackmatack and 'with Sping having arrived, The Hackmatack is in full prep mode for an entertaining summer season,' according to Hackmatack producer Michael Guptill.

The British are coming to Monmouth for Theater at Monmouth's 45th season.

Portland Ovations presents, in collaboration with SPACE Gallery, the poignant and provocative Who's Hungry for 4 performances at SPACE Gallery on April 10th at 8 pm, April 11th at 8 pm and Saturday April 12th at 2 pm and 8 pm.

The Maine Community Foundation recently granted $5,000 to The Public Theatre, of Lewiston, to support the theatre's efforts to provide meaningful employment to Maine theatrical designers.

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

The recent Broadway hit Good People, begins its run at The Public Theatre, Lewiston/Auburn's Professional Theatre, today, March 14 - 23.

The recent Broadway hit Good People, begins its run at The Public Theatre, Lewiston/Auburn's Professional Theatre, today, March 14 - 23.

Penobscot Theatre Company has announced the screening of four acclaimed films, presented in partnership with Jewish Community Endowment Associates (JCEA) as part of the 2014 Maine Jewish Film Festival.

Penobscot Theatre Company will welcome former Artistic Director Mark Torres back to Bangor for a lead role in the upcoming production of GOD OF CARNAGE, which will run tongiht, March 13-30.

Good Theater has announced the world premiere of Stephen Underwood's UNDERWATERGUY playing April 2-13 for twelve performances at the St.

Good Theater announces 'Lucky 13' their 13th season at the St.

A tribal dream of harmony and community is abruptly shattered by a band of roving vaudevillian miscreants who raucously sweep in and stage a faux 'minstrel show' to gorge themselves on stories of violence and chaos, and thus the musical The Elephant Piece launches the audience on a journey into musi

Good Theater presents the New England premiere of THE OUTGOING TIDE by Bruce Graham, a beautiful play that hums with dark humor and powerful emotion.