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Maine State Music Theatre recently made the long-awaited announcement regarding the shows of their 2017 season.

Director Lindsey Higgins has audio recordings of British and American politicians play before the action begins in the 60 Grit Theatre Company's production of Sarah Kane's 'Blasted.

Pull up your boots and hold onto your hats when this all-dancing, all-singing, all-new production of the rip-roarin' musical comedy classic bursts onto the Ogunquit Playhouse stage September 7 to October 1.

Threshold Stage Company's intimately staged production of Richard Nelson's 'Sorry' at the Star Theatre in Kittery, Maine, (September 9th - September 18th), invites the audience to pull up a chair at the Apple family's dining room table early in the morning on the day of the 2012 Obama/Romney Preside

Marc Camoletti's swinging 60's sex farce Boeing Boeing takes off at Theater at Monmouth Thursday, September 15th at 7:30 p.

The young and young at heart were treated to a day of enchantment at Maine State Music Theatre today, when the company presented four performances of Marc Robin and Curt Dale Clark's delightful musical retelling of Aladdin, directed and choreographed by Raymond Marc Dumont.

'We are the storytellers; we are the musicmakers; we are the dreamers of dreams.

Get your glitter on and take the ride of your life with the hilarious and heartwarming Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, based on the Oscar-winning film on stage at the Ogunquit Playhouse August 10 to September 3.

'It's the music and the storytelling; the storytelling walks a fine line between being universal and silly.

Penobscot Theatre Company is excited to kick-off its 2016-2017 Season with the Maine professional premiere of Calendar Girls, a comedy that has delighted audiences on both sides of the pond.

When Aladdin, directed and choreographed by Raymond Marc Dumont, opens on August 22, the four performances at Maine State Music Theatre will mark twenty-six years of collaboration and fifteen original shows created by the team of Marc Robin and Curt Dale Clark.

Acorn Productions, a non-profit theatrical education company dedicated to nurturing the performing arts in Portland, is thrilled to announce that they have hired Carmen-Maria Mandley as the new Director of Training for Acorn Acting Academy, currently located at Mechanics Hall in downtown Portland.

On a recent day, Julie McTague of Epping was showing ticket-holders to their seats at Hackmatack Playhouse.

Two of Maine's most revered cultural institutions, Portland Stage in Portland and Maine State Music Theatre (MSMT) in Brunswick, are pleased to announce their co-production of Frank McCourt's THE IRISH.

You're either on the bus or you're not on the bus, so the old saying goes.

'There are two kinds of people in the world, as ye very well know,' Peter Cormican asserts in a lilting accent, 'those that are Irish and those that want to be.

The electric, near ecstatic atmosphere in Brunswick's Pickard Theater last night more closely resembled that of a rock concert than a theatre company opening.

Studio Theatre of Bath presents Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play 'Talley's Folly' in the uniquely suited Library Park Gazebo beginning Thursday, August 18th.

Come along with Aladdin as he journeys to the Cave of Treasures to find the magic lamp… and the Genie who lives inside!

Two of Maine's most revered cultural institutions, Portland Stage in Portland and Maine State Music Theatre (MSMT) in Brunswick, are pleased to announce their co-production of Frank McCourt's THE IRISH.

Get your glitter on and take the ride of your life with the hilarious and heartwarming Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, based on the Oscar-winning film on stage at the Ogunquit Playhouse tonight, August 10 to September 3.

The Ogunquit Playhouse has announced the appointment of Dan Breen to the position of Director of Development.

?Nine vignettes, nine couples and 18 very different characters, with just four actors to fill the roles.

It's a party -under the blue skies and Mediterranean sun of a Greek island - or at least an evocation of that paradise on the stage of Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick.

The Schoolhouse Arts Center is excited to announce the cast of "Clue, the Musical¸" its fall 2016 production, which includes a mix of Schoolhouse veterans and newcomers.