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DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS Comes To Good Theater
by Stephi Wild - Oct 31, 2025

​​​​​​​Good Theater will bring a sharply comedic twist to the gothic canon this fall with the Portland premiere of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, set for this November. Learn more here!

Review: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU at Good Theater
by Steve Feeney - Oct 6, 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: Good Theater Presents Inaugural Concert at Stevens Square
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - May 1, 2025

The Good Theater welcomed a full house of almost 500 to its newly renovated space at Steven Square on April 30 to begin a week of celebratory concerts, marking the theatre’s return to the Portland theatrical landscape after a year’s absence.

Good Theater Opens New Home With Grand Reopening Concert Series
by Stephi Wild - Apr 16, 2025

After more than two decades as the theater-in-residence at The Hill Arts (formerly St. Lawrence Arts) on Munjoy Hill, Good Theater begins a new chapter with its long-awaited debut at the newly renovated and renamed Stevens Square Theater.

Julie Benko, Lillias White, The Skivvies, and More Set For Good Theater's 2025-26 Season
by Stephi Wild - Feb 12, 2025

Good Theater has announced its 2025-26 season, marking its return to live performances at the newly renovated Stevens Square Theater on the former McAuley High School campus. Learn more about the lineup here!

Last Chance To Vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Maine Awards; WAITRESS at Ogunquit Playhouse Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Awards - Dec 27, 2024

This is the last 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!

Final Week To Vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Maine Awards; Ogunquit Playhouse Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
by BWW Awards - Dec 23, 2024

This is the final week 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!

Vote For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Maine Awards; WAITRESS at Ogunquit Playhouse Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Awards - Dec 16, 2024

Voting continues 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!

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!

Interview: Act Two for Portland's Good Theater Theater
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Sep 14, 2024

A hush fell over the audience at the Hill Center last March when Good Theater’s Executive/Artistic Director, Brain P. Allen, concluded his curtain speech with the news that the current  production of A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE would be the last for the GOOD THEATER on Munjoy Hill. The theatre company, which was celebrating more than twenty years as the resident company of what had formerly been known as The St. Lawrence Center for the Arts, had lost its home, and Portland was about to lose one of its most vibrant professional theatres.

Review: A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at Hill Arts Center
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Mar 2, 2024

Portland’s Good Theater poetic, poignant revival of the Ahrens/Flaherty musical, A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, exquisitely directed by Brian P. Allen, marks several memorable milestones for this company which has been a jewel in Portland’s theatrical scene for twenty-one seasons.

Good Theater to Present A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE Beginning This Month
by Blair Ingenthron - Feb 10, 2024

Good Theater will present A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally, based on the 1994 Albert Finney film of the same title. Learn more about the production here!

Review: ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS at Good Theater
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Jan 21, 2024

Portland’s Good Theater newest production is a side-splittingly funny, perfectly timed farce with ancient roots in Italy’s Commedia dell’Arte, Richard Bean’s ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS.

Good Theater Presents ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS This January
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 20, 2023

Good Theater will kick off the new year with the side-splitting comedy ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS by Richard Bean, starring local favorite Dustin Tucker in his Good Theater debut. We have all of the details on the production!

Review: Good Theater Pays Tribute to Broadway's Golden Age in BROADWAY AT THE GOOD: THE TWIN PIANO EDITION
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Nov 5, 2023

The Good Theater presents a fresh take on its annual musical revue, BROADWAY AT THE GOOD: THE TWIN PIANO EDITION, this time honoring six seminal musicals from Broadway’s Golden Age, performed by a sprightly company of nine under the direction of Brian P. Allen, who conceived and directed the show and serves as its charming emcee.

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!

Good Theater to Present Hilarious, Heartwarming, and Musical 2023/2024 Season
by Blair Ingenthron - Sep 9, 2023

Following a successful 20th anniversary season in 2022 and early 2023, Good Theater has announced the schedule for the 2023/2024 season, as well as an updated rush ticket policy to help make live theater more accessible for all. 

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.

Photos: Good Theater Presents The Classic Comedy YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 30, 2023

Good Theater will present the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU as the finale of its 20th anniversary season, running March 29th through April 23rd. See photos from the production!