Review: THE PRODUCERS at Ogunquit Playhouse
Mel Brooks' The Producers is probably one of the most irreverent, outrageous and boundary-pushing musicals ever put on a Broadway stage. It is also one of the most entertaining.…
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Review: SWEENEY TODD at Hackmatack Playhouse
Hackmatack takes a walk on the dark side with Sweeney Todd…
Review: MAGIC MOMENT OF RECORDING HISTORY
The 2010 jukebox musical MILLION DOLLAR, QUARTET by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux celebrates an impromptu moment in recording history when the legends Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis found themselves together in the studio of Sun Records. The jam session that followed…
Review: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE RESONATES WITH CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE
In its new, streamlined adaptation by Amy Herzog, Henrik Ibsen’s AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, written in 1891, speaks to a contemporary audience with searing relevance. The trim, intense production, presented by Portland Theater Festival, playing at the Crewe Center for the Arts, hits home with its com…
Interview: COMMUNITY & COMING TOGETHER
Maine State Music Theatre concluded its 2026 Peek Behind the Curtain Series on August 12th with a discussion devoted to the theatre’s hit production of COME FROM AWAY. A capacity crowd assembled at Curtis Memorial Library to listen to three of the production’s stars, Carolyn Anne Miller (Bonni…
Review: MSMT YOUTH COMPANY SHINES IN MATILDA, JR. THE MUSICAL
For the past five years Maine State Music Theatre has been growing and refining a program known as its summer intensive, a pre-professional theatre training opportunity for youngsters ages eight to eighteen, which culminates in a full scale production on the main stage each August. The complexity of…
Review: MATILDA THE MUSICAL at Hackmatack Playhouse
Hackmatack’s production delivers a strong message with singing, dancing, silliness and heart. It’s an easy show to recommend for families, Dahl fans and anyone looking for an entertaining summer night out.…
Review: Welcome To The Rock: MSMT'S COME FROM AWAY Radiates Inspiration
Maine State Music Theatre's production of Come From Away is a stirring tribute to compassion in the face of tragedy. Led by first-time director Mark Johnson and performed by an all-star company of MSMT veterans, the production captures both the heartbreak and the humanity of the events that unfolded…
Review: CITY OF ANGELS at Ogunquit Playhouse
It is hard to believe that City of Angels debuted nearly four decades ago. Born out of the late-1980s resurgence of film noir send-ups, the show demands rapid-fire lyrical precision and a swinging jazz score that balances tough-edged detective lore with a biting satire of early Hollywood. With music…
Review: BRUNSWICK CELEBRATES MIDSUMMER IN HIGH STYLE
For almost a decade now, MSMT, together with the Brunswick downtown Association’s Music on the Mall, has presented, on the town green, a large outdoor concert free for the citizens of Brunswick, greater Maine and beyond. This MSMT summer event traditionally draws the largest crowd in the history o…
Past Shows
23 total · showing 11–20
Mary Jane
As Mary Jane navigates the realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son, she finds herself surrounded by a community of women committed to the tough project of caring for this child and his mother with grace and humor. Mary Jane is a remarkably powerful and...
Radiant Vermin
When a young couple is offered an ideal house by a mysterious stranger, it prompts the question: How far would any of us go to get our dream home? A fast-paced, pitch-black comedy, Radiant Vermin is a provocative satire about the housing market.
LIFE SUCKS.
LIFE SUCKS. (the period is part of the title) is Aaron Posner's thoroughly entertaining and spot-on adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. A group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-laws, and lifelong enemies gather to grapple with life's thorniest questions and each other...
Deer
Ken and Cynthia have been married for thirty years. Ken and Cynthia drive to their vacation home for the weekend. Ken and Cynthia hit a deer. Ken seriously just wants to spend the weekend alone with his wife, but Cynthia will not abandon their bloody new pet. As the deer begins...
The Whale
On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, Charlie, a six-hundred-pound recluse, hides away in his apartment, slowly eating himself to death, visited only by one stalwart friend and then, by chance, a young Mormon missionary with his own reasons for hiding away. Desperate to...
The Language Archive
Mad Horse Theatre Company explores love and language in Julia Cho's quietly beautiful THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE is a deeply affecting story about our universal struggle to hear and be heard for who we truly are.
The Explorer's Club
Mad Horse Theatre presents Nell Benjamin's Bright, Hilarious Farce, THE EXPLORER'S CLUB May 3-20. London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their bartender is terrible. Possibly worse - their acting president wants to admit a woman! True, the lady in question is...
Reasons To Be Pretty
A man's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remark about a female coworker's pretty face vs. his own girlfriends "regular" one gets back to her. His best buddy, and his buddy's wife, also enter into the picture, creating an emotional equation that...
One Flea Spare
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine—Mad Horse Theatre Company ushers in 2018 with the provocative Obie award-winning play Naomi Wallace's ONE FLEA SPARE . By turns funny and moving, the play explores wealth, class, fear and survival in 17th century London and seems eerily relevant today. A...
Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play
Anne Washburn’s award-winning, imaginative dark comedy propels us forward nearly a century, following a new civilization stumbling into its future. Post-apocalypse, a group of survivors cling to normalcy by trying to piece together the plot of an iconic The Simpsons episode...
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Æther and Unearthed Westbrook Performing Arts Center (9/19-9/19) |
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I Am My Own Wife Portland Stage Company (3/03-3/21) |
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Stroll Haunted Yarmouth 2026 Royal River Community Players (10/14-10/25) |
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Frozen the Broadway Musical Waterville Opera House (11/13-11/29) |
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AUDITIONS: A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL City Theater (9/14-9/15) |
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Rainbow Kitten Surprise Thompson's Point (9/13-9/13) |
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Seven Sisters Dramatic Repertory Company (10/02-10/11) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Patricia Quinn Waterville Opera House (10/24-10/24) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! Monmouth Savoy Theatre (3/05-3/05) |
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Revelation Portland Stage Company (5/05-5/23) |