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Facing facts

Struggling at the end of a life well lived
The title assumes an evolution of meanings in Trying , an autobiographical drama by Joanna McClelland Glass, based on her experiences with the real-life Judge Biddle.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 08, 2009

All in the timing

Acorn's Maine Playwrights Festival springs eternal
Acorn's Maine Playwrights Festival springs eternal

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 01, 2009

Stage blogging

A chat room sex scandal
The main characters of the play Speech and Debate, three Oregon high school misfits, do a lot of their living among the modern technologies of chat rooms, Google, and personal video blogs.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 01, 2009

Just-so stories

Noel Coward's Fallen Angels wait for love
There's plenty of room for neurotic misbehavior in Noel Coward's Fallen Angels .

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 25, 2009

Divine operas

USM shows off two Puccini one-acts
USM shows off two Puccini one-acts

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 18, 2009

Breaking away

Exploring womanhood at Portland Stage
Out of Sterno is a quirky feminist comedy by Deborah Zoe Laufer, directed by Casey Stangl for Portland Stage Company.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 11, 2009

Review: The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet

In this Verona, small children dwell
For young love, kiss, and star-cross, you're hard-pressed to get/more quintessence than Romeo and Juliet...

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 04, 2009

City of Angels at Lyric Music Theater

Parallel lives: See both in City of Angels at Lyric Music Theater
It's 1940s Hollywood, and we swerve between Stine's reality and Stone's parallel one, in City of Angels , a musical comedy-cum-musical noir , directed by Mary Meserve for South Portland's Lyric Music Theater.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 25, 2009

Super-curious

A conversation with a Nobel-winning polymath: QED
A conversation with a Nobel-winning polymath: QED

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 11, 2009

Norse myths

Creating Peer Gynt at PSC
A troll, according to folklore, can conceive by lust alone. That's one presumptuous genesis, and one that Peer Gynt learns the hard way.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 04, 2009

Friends, Romans...

...Courtesans? Funny Thing, that
Colorful archetypes abound in this super-stratified society of ancient Rome.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 28, 2009

Not messing about

Mad Horse's beautiful Clean House
The pale modernism of Lane's living room, plush but sterile, is being slowly strewn with stuff: barely bitten apples, playing cards, a bright yellow spice.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 28, 2009

Review: La Cage aux Folles

"All about love"
La Cage aux Folles at Portland Players

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 21, 2009

Stirring the pot

Changes are afoot in the local theater scene
The new year ushers in some lively shake-ups and stirrings among Portland's theater community.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 14, 2009

In the shadows

Secrets + stories hit the boards in 2009
As we look into the new year, let's start with the most primal theatrical basics: stories.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 31, 2008

Drink up!

Santaland gets to the dark heart of Christmas
Santaland gets to the dark heart of Christmas

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 10, 2008

Don't get comfy

The Pain and the Itch is no cozy reunion
If you expect your own Thanksgiving to also include a helping of familial anxiety, rest assured that you have nothing on the relatives gathered in Bruce Norris's very black comedy, The Pain and the Itch .

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 26, 2008

Bridesmaids' banter

In Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
At this upper-crust Tennessee wedding, we never see the bride, but her quintet of reluctant bridesmaids gets down to some deep and dirty truths in the sassy, irreverent Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, an early comedy by Alan Ball.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 19, 2008

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