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Review: Vampires, Victorians, and a Sendup of Bram Stoker

Review: Vampires, Victorians, and a Sendup of Bram Stoker

by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold — November 7, 2025

In this revolving door, gender-bending farce, five actors switch roles with dizzying speed to tell the tale of Count Dracula on the trail of his latest conquest, Lucy, who is determined to break Victorian convention.

Review: DIRTY DEEDS DOWNEAST at Portland Stage

Review: DIRTY DEEDS DOWNEAST at Portland Stage

by Steve Feeney — November 3, 2025

In his well-wrought new comedy/mystery/romance, homegrown playwright Brent Askari seeks to scratch the surface and look a little deeper into the soul of a seemingly placid island community off the coast of Maine.

DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS Comes To Good Theater

DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS Comes To Good Theater

by BWW News Desk — October 31, 2025

​​​​​​​Good Theater will bring a sharply comedic twist to the gothic canon this fall with the Portland premiere of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, set for this November.

USM Theatre Opens Season With A MONSTER CALLS

USM Theatre Opens Season With A MONSTER CALLS

by BWW News Desk — October 15, 2025

The University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre will present the Maine premiere of A Monster Calls at Russell Hall on the USM Gorham campus.

Review: TITANIC: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse

Review: TITANIC: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse

by Dan Marois — October 6, 2025

How does a regional theater, limited by its stage, capture the scale of the “ship of dreams”—a floating city of steel—while simultaneously honoring the desperate intimacy of the 1,517 souls who perished? 

Review: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU at Good Theater

Review: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU at Good Theater

by Steve Feeney — October 6, 2025

Are weddings where people sometimes find themselves “happily unhappy”?  That contradiction and it’s overcoming is at the heart of It Shoulda Been You, the first mainstage production presented at the new home of Portland’s Good Theater.

City Theater Kicks Off Season with DEATHTRAP

City Theater Kicks Off Season with DEATHTRAP

by BWW News Desk — September 28, 2025

DEATHTRAP is running at City Theater from October 10 through October 26, starring Steven Koskinen as Sidney Bruhl and Connor Hall as Clifford Anderson.

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