Review: ARCADIA at Portland Stage
by Steve Feeney - Oct 12, 2026
Where do you go to have an entertaining time at the theater while simultaneously being intellectually stimulated? Attending a play authored by Tom Stoppard would seem to be an obvious answer. And Portland Stage is offering a production of what many consider his best work to open the company’s 53rd season.
ARCADIA to Open Portland Stage's 53rd Season
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 10, 2026
Portland Stage will present Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning ARCADIA, nearly 25 years after the theater last produced the play. The production moves between two centuries in an English country house, exploring romance, mathematics, and mystery.
Alex Roe Takes on the Role of Melville in THE SEA LADY
by Stephi Wild - Oct 19, 2022
Actor and Director Alex Roe will be taking over the role of Horace Melville in Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse's sell-out premiere of Neith Boyce's THE SEA LADY. Roe is known for his performances at Metropolitan as Jesse James in MISSOURI LEGEND, Richard Dudgeon in THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE, and Blemie, the dog, in Eugene O'Neill's LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF SILVERDENE EMBLEM O'NEILL.
Metropolitan Playhouse Presents THE SEA LADY, October 6 - 30, 2022
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 10, 2022
Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse has opened the world premiere of Neith Boyce's THE SEA LADY, a 1935 play bound for Broadway that never reached its opening, in limited run from October 6 - 30, 2022, in person at the Playhouse: 220 E 4th Street. Alex Roe (Thunder Rock, Poor of New York, Virtual Playhouse) directs.
Metropolitan Playhouse to Present THE SEA LADY in October
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 27, 2022
Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse returns with the world premiere of Neith Boyce's THE SEA LADY, a 1935 play bound for Broadway that never reached its opening, in limited run from October 6 - 30, 2022, in person at the Playhouse. Alex Roe (Thunder Rock, Poor of New York, Virtual Playhouse) directs.
Photos: First Look at the New Production of THREE SISTERS at Two Rivers Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 7, 2022
Two River Theater playwright-in-residence Madeleine George (Two River’s Hurricane Diane, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England) has collaborated with director Sara Holdren (Two River’s Twelfth Night) to create a new translation of Chekhov’s classic play about big souls trapped in tiny boxes. Get a first look at photos of the new production!
New Translation of Chekov's THREE SISTERS to be Presented at Two River Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 24, 2022
Pulitzer Prize finalist and Two River Theater Playwright-in-Residence Madeleine George (Hurricane Diane, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England) is collaborating with director Sara Holdren (Twelfth Night) to create a new translation of Chekhov’s classic play about big souls trapped in tiny boxes.