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Maine State Music Theatre opened its Theatre for Young Audiences series with a delightful, energetic, and amusing production of Robin and Clark’s JACK AND THE BEANSTALK that drew a crowd of enthusiastic youngsters, their teachers, parents, and grandparents for the four performances on June 13.

This summer, audiences will reflect upon that question when Mad Horse Theatre Company closes their 36th season with the premiere of HOMECOMING: AN ODYSSEY - an immersive, installation production.

What did our critic think of MSMT's Sound of Music? What happens when one of the most beloved musicals in the canon comes to the stage at the very point in time when history and a harsh pandemic seem to intersect with an iconic story?

Following the sold-out success of COVID SUX: The Musical at Cumston Hall, Chris Henry, and Mark Falconer have written a new sequel to their previous original musical comedy about the pandemic featuring parodies of hit Broadway songs from shows like Hamilton, Les Miserables, Tick Tick Boom, West Side

“Marc Robin ‘s vision for this production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC is that of a joyful, hopeful child,” says Hanley Smith, the actress who makes her debut as Maria von Trapp this week as Maine State Music Theatre kicks off its “Revival Season.

The Public Theatre presents the Maine Premiere of Be Here Now, an intriguing comedy about happiness, running June 17-26.

This past Wednesday, June 1st, a great friend left us.

Pam Cummings, President of the Board of The Abyssinian Meeting House, will speak at 10 a.

Starting Friday, June 10th, and ending midnight, Sunday June 26, The Public Theatre will be taking its annual spring auction online.

Mad Horse Theatre Company invites audiences to join their Get Off The Couch Party Season Reveal & Fundraiser at Oxbow Bottling & Blending in Portland, Tuesday, June 7th from 6-8 pm.

Ten local Maine children will be taking the stage this summer in Maine State Music Theatre's (MSMT) production of The Sound of Music.

Following a successful return to live theater in 2021 after the COVID-19 crisis darkened stages around the world, Good Theater has announced the schedule for the 2022/2023 season.

Portland Stage closes its 2021-2022 season with a new play with music that is really a chamber opera, SABINA, about the pioneer in psychoanalysis, the muse and lover of Carl Jung and colleague of Sigmund Freud, Sabina Spielrein.

ISLE Theater Company announces the world premiere of Anna Fitzgerald's PLAYING MERCURY, a medieval-period comedy inspired by William Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT, with outdoor performances at Horsepower Farm from August 4-14 and digital on-demand released in mid-September.

The tenth annual PortFringe theater festival will take place June 13-18, 2022, featuring roughly 70 genre-defying performances at venues around Portland's East Bayside.

After a two-year pandemic delay, the new musical Sabina arrives on stage tonight at Portland Stage.

TAKE3, the genre-smashing musical trio, brings their unexpected and unique compositions to Husson University's Gracie Theatre on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 7 p.

Husson University Theatre (HUT), the university's official student theatre club, will perform Conor McPherson's 'The Birds' in a special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service from Friday, April 29, 2022 through Sunday, May 1, 2022 in the Gracie Theatre's Black Box performance space.

City Theater in Biddeford will present ON GOLDEN POND.

Opera Maine will present The Flying Dutchman at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine on Wednesday, July 27 and Friday, July 29, 2022.

Mad Horse Theatre Company presents Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties by Jen Silverman, May 5 -29; a wildly comedic search for love, understanding, connection, and self-actualization.

Imagine His Girl Friday meets The Carol Burnett Show and you've got SCREWBALL COMEDY, a fast-paced, hilarious nod to the Hollywood comedies of the '30s and '40s playing at The Public Theatre, Lewiston/Auburn's professional theatre, April 29 – May 8th.

The 2022 Studio Artist Program, under the leadership of Richard Gammon, will feature performances of The Fall of the House of Usher by Philip Glass on June 29 and July 1, 2022.

Snowlion Repertory Company, whose mission is to create, develop, and present new theater works of cultural, ethical, and spiritual value, announces the world premiere production of the new musical comedy The Secret Princess running April 29 through May 8 at Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main Street in Fre

A cornucopia of dance talent will be on stage at the Gracie Theatre on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 6 p.