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It's hard to imagine why this gem of a show had such a short Broadway run, but it is finding new life in regional productions, not the least of which opened here at South Portland's Lyric Music Theater this past weekend.

The sixth annual PortFringe theater festival will take place June 17-24, 2017, featuring roughly 125 genre-defying performances at venues across Portland's Arts District.

Maine State Music Theatre continues its community outreach efforts with its highly popular "Peek Behind the Curtain" series that runs each month from May through August.

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Maine State Music Theatre provides Theatre for Young Audiences performances each season but this summer, thanks to a generous grant from the Anna-Maria Moggio Foundation, the theatre is also creating sensory-friendly performances of its children's shows.

Hackmatack Playhouse will open its 45th anniversary season on June 16 with a performance of "She Loves Me," a Tony awarding-winning show set in a 1930s European perfumery.

“The All Night Strut has a songbook to die for! It may not be as riotously funny as The Irish and How They Got Way was,” says Maine State Music Theatre's Artistic Director Curt Dale Clark, but I know from experience that the audience will leave the theatre exhilarated!” Clark, who will co-prod

Mad Horse Theatre Company is excited to host its 4th annual Murder Mystery fundraising gala on Saturday, June 10, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, at the Mad Horse Theater, 24 Mosher Street in South Portland.

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The Ogunquit Playhouse kicks off its 85th Anniversary Season with the international smash hit Mamma Mia!, dazzling audiences on stage from May 17 to July 1.

Full casting has been announced for the New England premiere of DISASTER! THE MUSICAL; the 1970's disaster-movie musical written by Sirius/XM On Broadway host, Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick (Glee, Ellen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer).

The Ogunquit Playhouse opens its 85th season on a romantic Greek island.

Maine State Music Theatre hosted a special series of free FILM FRIDAYS events which previewed the summer shows, showed the original (or subsequent) movie and offered a talkback with Artistic Director Curt Dale Clark, in interview with BWW's Maine Editor, Carla Maria Verdino-Sullwold.

The venerable Ogunquit Playhouse, which is celebrating its 85th Anniversary season is once again joining forces with Rotary International to continue in the fight to eradicate polio worldwide by 2018.

Maine State Music Theatre (MSMT) will hold a panel discussion "Peek Behind the Curtain - Always, Patsy Cline" on Wednesday, June 14, 12 pm - 1 pm in the Morrell Meeting Room at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick.

Penobscot Theatre Company is capping its 43rd season with a feel-good musical that has charmed audiences worldwide: The Full Monty (book by Terrence McNally and music and lyrics by David Yazbek) will open in previews June 15 and run through July 9, with 21 performances at the historic Bangor Opera H

We'll always be like one! After four packed house, GREASE played it's final performance at the Winslow Homer Center for the Arts on Sunday, May 7th at 1 PM.

Schoolhouse Arts Education Program in Standish is proud to present Disney's "Mulan, Jr.

Strong work at Portland Stage.

The nationally regarded Maine State Music Theatre celebrates music legend and cross-over sensation Patsy Cline, June 7 - 24.

Karol and David Gooch of Kittery were young and in love, earthy-looking types, when they first discovered Hackmatack Playhouse in Berwick, Maine, 40 years ago.

Mad Horse Theatre's 2018 has certainly pushed the envelope in repertoire choices, fearlessly programming provocative, often dark, edgy, but always intensely human plays.

The rain was pouring down outside and the aroma of fresh hot popcorn wafted through the Morrell Meeting Room as a sizeable crowd gathered on this gloomy Friday evening at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick to enjoy a new public film series, created by MSMT, hosted by Artistic Director Curt Dale Cl

Some Theatre Company will present Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Erryn Bard, running June 1st - 4th, 2017 at the Keith Anderson Community House - 19 Bennoch Rd, Orono.

'The theme of romantic relationship is one familiar to all of us and in the dance of the lovers that is played out by the characters, we can see, and laugh at our own follies and challenges as human beings.