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.
Review: Vampires, Victorians, and a Sendup of Bram Stoker
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Nov 7, 2025
In this revolving door, gender-bending farce, five actors switch roles with dizzying speed to tell the tale of Count Dracula on the trail of his latest conquest, Lucy, who is determined to break Victorian convention.
USM Theatre to Present LITTLE WOMEN THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
by Josh Sharpe - Mar 12, 2025
The University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre will welcome Spring with the fantastical & heartwarming Little Women, the Broadway Musical, April 4-13th at Russell Hall on the USM Gorham Campus.
12TH NIGHT: SHAKESPEARE & SONG Comes to the Fenix Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Dec 4, 2023
Fenix Theatre Company presents a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night that's fit for the season. Directed by Fenix Artistic Director Peter Brown, 12TH NIGHT: SHAKESPEARE & SONG shimmers, shines, and delivers festive cheer for the whole family.
Review: CRIMES OF THE HEART at the Good Theater
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Jan 14, 2023
CRIMES OF THE HEART, Beth Henley’s Pulitzer-Prize winning 1981 dark comedy about three sisters and their shared secrets, receives a compelling production, directed by Brian P. Allen, at Portland’s Good Theater. Set in the Mississippi in the mid-twentieth century, Henley’s character-driven play has Chekovian overtones, as the relatively plotless piece relies on a series of revelations about the past to shape the mordent tragi-comedy.
Photo Flash: Inside Hell In A Handbag Productions' SNOWGIRLS - THE MUSICAL
by Julie Musbach - Nov 19, 2018
Hell in a Handbag Productions rings in the holidays with the world premiere of SnowGirls - The Musical, a parody of the classic cult film Showgirls. Featuring a book by Derek Van Barham, music by Artistic Director David Cerda* with Scott Lamberty and Jeff Thomson, direction by Jon Martinez and music direction by JD Caudill. SnowGirls will play November 15 - December 30, 2018 at Mary's Attic, 5400 N. Clark St.