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For the third consecutive year Maine State Music Theatre has swept the Broadway World Maine Audience Choice Awards, winning ten of the eleven categories for which it was eligible and taking home a record number of citations for its production of NEWSIES - ten awards, the most a single show has earne

Portland professional theater company Cast Aside Productions will celebrate the 2nd birthday of their musical theater variety show, BOOZICAL THEATER NIGHT, by featuring members of the national touring cast of Dirty Dancing the Musical.

Good Theater is proud to bring back Shear Madness for another extended run beginning January 10 and continuing for nine weeks through March 11.

Portland professional theater company Cast Aside Productions will celebrate the 2nd birthday of their musical theater variety show, BOOZICAL THEATER NIGHT, by featuring members of the national touring cast of Dirty Dancing the Musical.

The first weekend in 2018 brings Acorn Productions' annual homage to the creative process in which six brand new plays that have not even been written are assembled over the course of one 24-hour period.

The 'tale as old as time' of 'Beauty and the Beast' is one that has delighted young and old for generations including patrons of The Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor.

The 2017 awards honor productions which opened between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017.

Penobscot Theatre Company's Dramatic Academy is leveraging its new space at 51 Main Street, Bangor, to offer an expanded slate of performance-based classes and special workshops.

Mad Horse Theatre Company ushers in 2018 with the provocative Obie award-winning play Naomi Wallace's ONE FLEA SPARE .

The 2017 awards honor productions which opened between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017.

Four unemployed Rumford Maine mill workers at the very edge of despair concoct an innovative way to empower themselves amidst the hardships of their lives.

Creating magic on the Pickard main stage each summer is what Maine State Music Theatre does each season and does with consummate skill.

The 2017 awards honor productions which opened between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017.

Portland Stage announces a workshop of Bess Welden's Refuge/Malja with Arabic translation by Ali Al Mshakheel and directed by Todd Brian Backus on January 6th at 7pm in the Studio Theater at Portland Stage 25A Forest Avenue.

Penobscot Theatre Company is proud to present Disney's Beauty and the Beast, December 7-30, 2017, at the historic Bangor Opera House.

Before the holidays Portland Ovations Offstage announced the inaugural class of six Offstage Ambassadors.

This winter, Portland Stage unveils the Dark Week Project, three staged readings of beloved playwright Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth while the Mainstage is 'dark', a technical term to signify that the theater is in a transition week between regularly scheduled productions.

Among the many holiday season theatrical offerings, the annual musical revue, Broadway at the Good Theater inevitably proves to be a refreshing and original approach to ushering in a season of good cheer.

The 2017 awards honor productions which opened between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017.

The Waterville Opera House (WOH) is proud to present an adventurous musical tale - Annie the Musical - December 1st through 10th in downtown Waterville.

The Waterville Opera House (WOH) is proud to present an adventurous musical tale Annie the Musical December 1st through 10th in downtown Waterville.

Good Theater announces the return of Will Rhys in his acclaimed one-man version of A Christmas Carol for six performances, December 6-10, at Good Theater's home on Munjoy Hill, the St.

Members of the staff of Maine State Music Theatre gathered to accept the 2017 Broadway World Critic's Choice Award.

David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries has become a staple of the alternative Christmas experience a funny, sardonic, wickedly funny look at the traditions and trappings of Christmas.

Maine boasts a vibrant, varied theatrical landscape, is home to a significant local community of fine artists, and plays host each year to artists from New York, Chicago, and all the leading regional theatres in the country.