Review: DIRTY DEEDS DOWNEAST at Portland Stage
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. ...
Review: TITANIC: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse
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? ...
Review: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU at Good Theater
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....
Review: MURDER FOR TWO at Portland Stage
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....
Review: HIGH SOCIETY at Ogunquit Playhouse
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 ...
Review: Can't Stand Still: FOOTLOOSE Explodes Onto MSMT Stage
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...