COMMUNITY LITTLE THEATRE CORP

by Dan Marois - December 07, 2025

It is a clear sign of the December holidays when the Oqunquit Playhouse brings its theatrical magic to The Music Hall in Portsmouth. In their 11th year of collaboration, the season is blessed with a festive production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas The Musical....

by Steve Feeney - November 03, 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. ...

by Steve Feeney - October 21, 2025

We’ve all needed a bit more water this year to ease the drought.  But Yo-Yo Ma and friends sought to address the ways of water in a broader context in a just shy of two-hour performance on October 20th in Portland....

by Dan Marois - October 06, 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? ...

by Steve Feeney - October 06, 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....

by Dan Marois - September 09, 2025

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by Steve Feeney - August 04, 2025

The scenes may seem a little frenzied in the 2025 late-summer show at Maine’s Portland Stage.  But that’s only if you don’t surrender your imagination to a pair of high-energy performers taking on thirteen roles in the madcap mystery/musical/comedy Murder for Two....

by Dan Marois - July 28, 2025

The brassy stage musical, High Society, is currently holding court at the Ogunquit Playhouse in a production that was specifically reimagined from Philip Barry's play The Philadelphia Story (and its iconic film counterpart), for the hallowed playhouse. This production delivers a generous helping of ...

by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - July 17, 2025

Bursting with energy and pulsating with a heartwarming story of forgiveness and family, Maine State Music Theatre’s new production of FOOTLOOSE serves up both a genuinely poignant tale and a dance extravaganza.  The new production, directed by E. Faye Butler and choreographed by Tyler Hanes, the fir...

by Steve Feeney - July 21, 2025

Lovers go wild again in Illyria as Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night gets a spirited repertory run at Maine’s own Theater at Monmouth. ...