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The USM Department of Theatre welcomes audiences back to theatre with a free, family-friendly, traveling outdoor show, The Marvelous Meep Island Adventure.

City Theater in Biddeford has pulled out all the stops for its production of Arnold Ridley's 'The Ghost Train.

Trade one quaint New England seacoast village for another this fall with the world premiere of Mystic Pizza: A New Musical at Ogunquit Playhouse.

BWW Review: A Refreshing Romp: MSMT’s ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Cadenza MSMT returned to Freeport’s Cadenza last night for a three-show run of the 1973 Richard O’Brien cult classic, The ROCKY HORROR SHOW.

Ogunquit Playhouse concludes its 2021 season with the perfect spooky October production: Young Frankenstein, starring John Bolton (Broadway's Anastasia) as the titular Frederick Frankenstein and featuring Ogunquit favorite Sally Struthers (Thoroughly Modern Millie) as Frau Blücher.

The script for the show is adapted from the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.

Playhouse is holding auditions for the role of Susan Waverly in their upcoming production of Irving Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH.

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 one-woman show 'MY WITCH: Margaret Hamilton's Stories of Maine, Hollywood, and Beyond!'

These spooky classics are given new life as chilling theatrical stories.

In this last week of Maine State Music Theatre’s 2021 season, despite having to cancel several productions due to Covid-related issues, the 63-year-old company demonstrated its continued vitality and commitment to delivering the best in musical theatre.

With the recent rise in COVID cases due to the Delta Variant, Portland Stage is joining multiple organizations in the Greater Portland area in their effort to prioritize audience, staff, volunteer, and artist safety by requiring masking and vaccinations (or negative COVID tests) of our patrons.

The Theatre will begin its 31st season on October 15th with its previously postponed production of Middletown followed by a delightful holiday production and a fabulous 3 play subscription series starting in January!

This world premiere is among the best of those presented by Ogunquit Playhouse with a charming, light-hearted story, an incredibly talented cast, costuming that you might still find in the clothes closet in the attic, and a string of 1980s tunes that will have you reminiscing about big hair, neon co

Nominations are now open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Maine Awards! Streaming theatre, in-person, and more are included.

In the final moments of the 2005 hit musical JERSEY BOYS, Frankie Valli muses, “We were all just chasing the music.

The Gracie Theatre at Husson University will welcome patrons back with a spectacular line-up of performers for its tenth season.

The Playhouse Patio Cabaret Series wraps up its 2021 season by welcoming back the inimitable Carter Calvert.

The Public Theatre will officially welcome people back to the theatre on Sept 24 and 25 at 7:00pm for the 24th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.

'Despite all of these successes, we are not operating in the post-COVID world we thought we would be,' the statement reads.

Last seen in 2017 when she wowed audiences in ALWAYS, PATSY CLINE, and then again for a single knockout number in the MSMT Gala 60th Anniversary Concert in 2018, Christine Mild returned to the Pickard stage this week for three solo concerts in which she unleashed the power and splendor of her voice

The David Lindsay-Abaire-Jeanine Tesori musical, SHREK, JR.

Effective immediately, all patrons and staff attending the State Theatre and the State Theatre Presents concerts at Thompson’s Point will need to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test from the past 48 hours, along with a matching photo ID.

In its first season after the pandemic, MSMT has offered many noteworthy moments of memory, but perhaps few as thrilling as this tribute concert to two of the greatest names in popular music of the late 20th century: Billy Joel and Elton John.

The fact that the classic fairytale of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is said to be “a tale as old as time” did not stop the musical writing team of Marc Robin and Curt Dale Clark from deciding to tell their version of the ancient story by framing it within a modern one.

In many ways MSMT’s concert, WELCOME HOME, is a valentine to the world of musical theatre and to those who create it and who love and support it.