Latest Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW Maine Awards
by BWW Awards - Dec 9, 2024
Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Maine Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
BWW Review: Luminous Production of FIREFLIES Opens Good Theater Season
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Oct 23, 2023
The Good Theater opens its 21st season with a luminous production of Matthew Barber’s poignant 2017 play about the flickers of late-life romance, expertly directed by Brian P. Allen, starring Valerie Perri in a nuanced, delicate and incandescent performance.
FIREFLIES, as the title and central metaphor suggest, draws a subtle portrait of the sparks that simmer repressed in a lonely woman’s soul, only to be kindled by the attentions of an erratic, but appealing drifter who comes into her life and enables her to shake off decades of claustrophobic expectations. Barber draws his four characters with great insight and empathy, and though the ending may be fated from the start, keeps the audience guessing as to the directions the principal pair will choose. His dialogue is wry, laced with a warm wit and tender pathos, and he manages to infuse every moment of the week-long action with palpable emotion.
FIREFLIES Comes to Good Theater
by Stephi Wild - Sep 27, 2023
Good Theater has announced FIREFLIES by Matthew Barber as the opener of the company's 21st season. Learn more about the show and find out how to get tickets here!
Warm, Wacky, and Wonderful: Good Theater's Revival of YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Apr 17, 2023
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s classic, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, is eighty-six years young, and the latest revival at Portland’s Good Theater makes a strong case for the work’s perennial appeal. Directed by Brian P. Allen and featuring a cast of eighteen, most Good Theater veterans, this delightfully zany script, filled with wacky but loveable characters, delivers a timeless message about family and the secrets to true happiness.
Rep Stage Presents The Tennessee Williams Classic, THE GLASS MENAGERIE
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 9, 2022
Rep Stage, the professional regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College, presents Tennessee Williams' classic play, “The Glass Menagerie,” April 28 through May 15, 2022. Directed by Rep Stage's Producing Artistic Director Joseph W. Ritsch, this exciting production explores how ghosts of the past continue to haunt.
Rep Stage to Present THE GLASS MENAGERIE
by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 8, 2022
Rep Stage, the professional regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), presents Tennessee Williams’ classic play, “The Glass Menagerie,” April 28 through May 15, 2022. Directed by Rep Stage’s Producing Artistic Director Joseph W. Ritsch, this exciting production explores how ghosts of the past continue to haunt.
ICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK, INC is Set to Host 2022 City Skate Pop Up Concerts
by Marissa Tomeo - Feb 19, 2022
Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) is set to present 2022 City Skate Pop Up Concerts as part of Kids Week at the Rink at Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park on Tuesday, February 22 and Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 9:30 am. ITNY performers include ITNY Junior Apprentice Ella Bauer and three other young skaters from Skating Club of New York. The events are free and open to the public.
World Premiere of SENIOR LIVING Directed by Judith Ivey Opens This Friday
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 26, 2022
In an unprecedented season of five new works in its six-show subscription season, the third new work in the series, Senior Living, opens this Friday, January 28 at 7:30 pm. Initially slated for the 2020-21 season, the show was postponed due to the pandemic.
Good Theater to Return to the Stage for 2021-2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 25, 2021
Good Theater will return to the St. Lawrence stage with a season of new works, recent Broadway hits, and the long-awaited Maine premiere of the critically acclaimed off-Broadway musical DESPERATE MEASURES, a production which has been on-hold since 2020, when its run was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Rep Stage Announces In-Person Productions for the 2021"2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 6, 2021
Rep Stage will return to in-person staged productions with its 2021–2022 season. Jason Robert Brown’s “Songs for a New World” will launch the season September 30–October 17, 2021, followed by the world premiere of Dane Figueroa Edidi’s “Ghost/Writer” February 17–March 6, 2022.
BWW Review: Clauder Prize Winner Premieres at Portland Stage
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Nov 10, 2019
Portland Stage presented the world premiere of a work they brought though their prestigious Clauder New Work Competition, READ TO ME. The play, selected among 170 scripts, is written by Brendon Pelsue and directed by his brother Rory - both Yale Drama School Graduates. The result9ng work is ambitious and fully in keeping with Portland Stage a?oemagical realism a?oe them for the season.
The subject of READ TRO ME is potentially well chosen a?' filled with deeply searing drama- a child dying in a children's hospital with adults trying to make sense 0f this absurdity. The subject matter is dense with possibility, which, regrettably in tis production is never fully realized.
Good Theater Presents WHO'S HOLIDAY!
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 29, 2019
Good Theater ushers in the holiday season with the Maine premiere of WHO'S HOLIDAY! by Matthew Lombardo. The production opens November 9th and plays through November 30th, 2019 at Good Theater's home, the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland. For tickets and information, please call the Box Office at (207) 835-0895 or visit www.goodtheater.com.