With a cast of 55, Brunswick’s nonprofit Midcoast Youth Theater brings back its all-ages musical for the first time in two years.
theater
Posted inTimes Record, Uncategorized
Meetinghouse Arts presents ‘Songs from Here’ on July 28
Program features collaboration between Maine-based musicians and local poets
advertisement
Posted inTimes Record
Maine State Music Theatre, Portland Stage team up for ‘Smoke on the Mountain’
Maine State Music Theatre and Portland Stage will once again team up to present a co-production of “Smoke on the Mountain” from Aug. 2 – 28. The show tells the hilarious, heartwarming story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Hackmatack Playhouse to close after a final show this summer
After 50 years in operation, the seasonal theater in Berwick will close its doors.
Posted inTimes Record
Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble presents outdoor fantasy performance at Desert of Maine
Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble, in association with the Desert of Maine Center for Arts and Ecology, will present the enchanting fantasy “Caravan of Dreams” outdoors at the Desert of Maine beginning on Saturday, June 4, and running through Sunday, June 26. “Caravan of Dreams” is a world-premiere fantasy about a girl who must save her city […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Life & Culture
Story of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein set to song in musical premiering at Portland Stage
‘Sabina’ tells the real-life story of a young Russian woman who was institutionalized then went on to become a student and the lover of psychoanalyst Carl Jung.
Posted inTimes Record, Uncategorized
Freeport-area students bring Agatha Christie mystery to stage
High schools from across the state are preparing one-act plays for the statewide competition in March, each with their own spin of a 40-minute play. Freeport High School is setting the bar high with the period piece “The Patient.” In this Agatha Christie mystery, eight characters struggle to find the murderer in a hospital ward— […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Mt. Ararat brings musical theater back to Midcoast
‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,’ the high school stage company’s first musical since 2020, opens at Orion Performing Arts Center March 4.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Don’t support theaters that haven’t lived up to diversity pledges
Artistic organizations are beholden to the desires of their audiences when it comes to programming.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Review
Theater review: Two couples chronicle their friendship through the decades
‘Middletown’ is an affecting evening of theater.