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Maine State Music Theatre closes out its 2017 season with the New England Regional Premier of the all-singing, all-dancing, high-energy show, Disney's Newsies. Featuring a score by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken, Newsies runs from August 9 - 26. A matinee performance has been added on August 19 at 2 PM.

Rock'n roll, teen rebellion, a collection of quirky, lovable characters, and a musical score seared into the American cultural fabric - all these come together in a breathless and breathtaking joy ride that pulsates with electrifying energy in Maine State Music Theatre's third main stage show, Grease. The Jim Jacobs/Warren Casey musical, which reminisces nostalgically about the joyful, naughty, unforgettable days of senior year in mythical Rydell High in 1959, has seen numerous permutations since its original production as an edgy, raunchy musical play called Vaseline in 1971, to its Broadway debut in 1972 and through various film versions including the iconic 1978 movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Here in its Broadway version, amplified with a number of the favorite songs from the movie, MSMT has created a high-flying confection that is a valentine to a simpler era with just the right sparks of sass and sweetness that combine for an irresistibly engaging evening that is sure to prove the summer theatre scene's mega hit.

Maine State Music Theatre brings Rydell High's senior class of 1959 to the Pickard stage with Grease July 19 - August 5.

Maine State Music Theatre presents The Who's Tommy for one day only on Monday, July 31 with shows at 2 PM and 7:30 PM.

Part of the perennial appeal of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls lies in the larger-than-life aura of its Damon Runyonesque roots - its fantasy land of gangsters and dolls, Broadway in the Prohibition era, and memorable characters who sing, dance, and deliver wise-cracks. Maine State Music Theatre's new production, the fifth in the company's history, brings this classic to life with a vivid freshness that embraces both the grand framework of the story and the intimacy of its essential heart. Sweet, sassy, and colorful, soaring and ambitious, MSMT's second show of the 2017 season is breathtakingly daring in the way it utilizes all the company's resources to their fullest, all the while that it demonstrates to a new generation why Guys and Dolls both invented and broke the mold for American musical theatre.

Maine State Music Theatre presents Frank Loesser's celebrated musical comedy about rolling the dice and falling in love, Guys and Dolls. Considered by many to be the 'perfect musical comedy,' Guys and Dolls runs from June 28 - July 15.

If you are a fanatic for rock and roll, especially from the genre's golden age, you will absolutely love "Rock of Ages." "Oh Sherrie," "The Search is Over," as you'll think it's "Just like Paradise" and believe that you are in "Heaven," having "Nothin' But a Good Time," which is pretty darn good!

Jon Suarez, Co-Executive Chef of Ho-Ho-Kus Inn and Tavern in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey is in our 'Chef Spotlight.'

Convergences Theatre Collective is pleased to announce Lauren Langbaum will be joining the special Cinco de Mayo edition of A MEXICAN AFFAIR.

Convergences Theatre Collective is pleased to present a special Cinco de Mayo edition of A MEXICAN AFFAIR.

NEW YORK, March 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ Published by Amazon.com, author Tom Secret introduces us to the dark world of government surveillance, and the extremes a family are forced to resort to, to protect their children and themselves.

Silver Spring-based Improbable Comedy will partner with the popular brewery Denizens, and offer a monthly live, stand-up comedy show in downtown Silver Spring. The first one will be Thursday March 9 at 8pm in the taproom at Denizens.  Four performers will make up the line-up of the 90-minute show.

Convergences Theatre Collective is pleased to announce the return of A MEXICAN AFFAIR, created and performed by Rafa Reyes (awarded cultural representative of Veracruz), with new arrangements by musical director Felipe Fournier (two-time Grammy Award nominee; one-time Latin Grammy Award nominee), and directed By Jeremy Williams (babel).

Mad Cow Theatre continues Season 20 with George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece Pygmalion, opening Nov. 18, 2016 in the Harriett Theatre.

Leading lady Kara Tointon was in Birmingham yesterday to launch a brand new production of one of the greatest thrillers of all time, Gaslight.

Mad Cow Theatre continues Season 20 with George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece Pygmalion, opening Nov. 18, 2016 in the Harriett Theatre.

Oh, what to do, what to do. Sister Julia, Child of God, has accidentally poisoned 52 nuns in the convent who die after consuming her botulism-laced vichyssoise.  Heavenly hilarity ensues when the five remaining nuns must find a way to raise enough money to bury their beloved and dearly departed sisters.

Oh, what to do, what to do. Sister Julia, Child of God, has accidentally poisoned 52 nuns in the convent who die after consuming her botulism-laced vichyssoise.  Heavenly hilarity ensues when the five remaining nuns must find a way to raise enough money to bury their beloved and dearly departed sisters.