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Mad Horse moves Hedda Gabler to the ’50s
Triangulations are many and charged in the Tesmans’ circle, and for newlywed Hedda Tesman, née Gabler, it is imperative to be an apex.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 09, 2008

Going Cuckoo

Portland Players searches for liberation
Through the asylum’s gothic windows, high and barred, shift impossibly vivid blues, yellows, and scarlets.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 02, 2008

Into the abyss

Generic Theater does Albee's Goat
In addition to their style and money, prize-winning architect Martin and his wife Stevie share a masterfully cultured wit.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 26, 2008

Short Play Fest turns eight

Quick shows
It’s time once again to bring Maine’s playwrights out of their writing rooms, and to realize their creations on stage.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 26, 2008

Portlanders on stage

The city's most prominent theater showcases hometown talent
Nobles and groundlings alike place their verbiage strategically for love, for mischief, or — most delectably — for both.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 12, 2008

Seeing in the Dark

Seacoast Rep's sensitive interplay
Susy is a tireless master over the landscape of her Manhattan basement apartment.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 05, 2008

Suppressing the urge

You have to pay to pee in Urinetown
Some scholars estimate an end to our current age, the “Era of Expansion,”as early as 2050.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 27, 2008

Trading places

The aftermath of the Prelude
By the cumulative serendipities of sleeplessness, spaetzle, and Molson, young Peter and Rita find love in New York City. Immediately.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 20, 2008

Crucifictions

Not just telling stories
“Once upon a time” is how it starts. Upon this Michal insists.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 13, 2008

Candy is dandy

Honey-sweet goodness at Pontine
The poet Ogden Nash might be best known for his acute “Reflections on Icebreaking”: “Candy/is dandy/but liquor/is quicker.”

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 06, 2008

Mixed media

The Theater Project's Winter Cabaret puts TV on the boards
Purple splatter-paint graphics zoom over a flat-screen above the stage.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 30, 2008

Glimmering fragments

Cape Elizabeth poet Jonathan Aldrich assembles the pieces
Like water and light in a long day’s array of relations, Ring Road is both a brilliantly gleaming whole and a collection of scattered gleams.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 23, 2008

Bright dreams

The longings of mistreated women cannot be Eclipsed
Across white sheets strung on clotheslines, cool light falls from a window, as if over the most susceptible fabric of memory.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 23, 2008

Paying the price

Acknowledging our privilege causes deep suffering
Our afflicted protagonist (Keith D. Anctil, alternating shows with Jennie Hahn) would like to lead you on a thought experiment.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 16, 2008

Electioneering

Lampooning the theater that is politics
A profound and fateful significance is bestowed, every fourth January, upon our neighbors in New Hampshire.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 09, 2008

Theatrical progress

A venue-to-venue tour of Portland
As an avid theater-goer, there are times when I hanker to positively consume a fine play.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 02, 2008

Darkness in lights

Preview 2008: the winter of malcontents
The coming cold season of theater looks to veer toward darkness, crime, acrimony, and/or moral and sexual ambiguity — excellent news!

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 26, 2007

Myth and legend

Portland theatre: 2007 in review
With no ado, here are some of the last year’s theatrical highlights.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 19, 2007

Gather ’round

Kids have a lot to teach us about art
In the ancient fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper, idle bohemianism does not pay.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 12, 2007

Don't shoot!

You'll want both eyes for Seacoast Rep's Christmas Story
Young Ralphie is a 9-year-old who knows exactly what he wants.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 28, 2007

Honorable sacrifices

For God and King, at the Players' Ring
“Does one say ‘immoral’ or ‘amoral?’” a drunken, debauching young Henry II asks his best friend and chancellor, Thomas Becket.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 20, 2007

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