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Five Women use the power of booze for good

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

Review: A Lie of the Mind

Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind
A disturbing restlessness lies at the heart of Sam Shepard's rugged, dysfunctional American West. Men run off and then return, rebel and then cleave.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 12, 2008

Pathos prevails in The Lonesome West

AIRE’s Lonesome West hits home
Under Tony Reilly’s direction, the American Irish Repertory Ensemble makes rich, wicked, and poignant work of the brothers’ murderous one-upmanship.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 05, 2008

Must see Stones

Good Theater’s duo throw a few Stones
The excellent Brian Chamberlain and Christopher Reiling slip in and out of leads and extras alike in the Good Theater’s superb, must-see Stones in his Pockets .

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 05, 2008

Sharp, sassy Soccer Moms

The Public Theatre explores motherhood
Secrets of a Soccer Mom is a sassy feel-good comedy by Kathleen Clark, sharply directed by Christopher Schario for the Public Theatre.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 29, 2008

Three Viewings engulfs audience

Harbor Light’s dark and funny Three Viewings
Harbor Light Stage, the adventurous new Kittery-based theater company, loves to play with its locations.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 22, 2008

The mouths of babes

Mad Horse’s chilling season opener
The terrorism of emotional manipulation and smear campaigns is certainly alive and well anywhere that somebody wants a certain kind of power.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 16, 2008

Running onward

Shepard’s Fool For Love at USM
Two doomed lovers meet — not for the first and surely not for the last time — in Sam Shepard’s dark romance of love and the American West, Fool For Love.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 09, 2008

Vast and intimate

Portland Stage’s masterful Caesar
PSC’s sophisticated and devastating interpretation of Julius Caesar reminds us of just how crucial it is that we keep our heads.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 02, 2008

Perspectives

The shifts of Michael Kimball’s newest play
Many kinds of flight throw together the doomed characters of Hideaway , five troubled people on an isolated Maine lakeshore.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | September 17, 2008

Morality plays

It’s hard to escape politics this fall
The next six weeks of American life will be marked by a theatrical onslaught of ambition, contention, and colorful character development.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | September 10, 2008

In proper style

Ogunquit Playhouse's My Fair Lady
The vocabulary, timbre, and tone of London flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Gail Bennett) are all — in the words of language-snob Professor Henry Higgins (Jefferson Mays) — “deliciously low.”

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 27, 2008

Dashing debut

Vacationland Theater Company's riotous opener
The wickedly dark, clever, and all-deprecating satire Urinetown receives a sonorous production by the newly formed Vacationland Theater Company, in Sanford, directed by Hunter F. Roberts.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 20, 2008

All in the family(1)

Lives and cultures clash in Lanyard premiere
“Home” isn’t necessarily a discrete, concrete place.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 12, 2008

Teen scenes

Giving love a bad name in the park
The show fills this summer’s void of outdoor theater with a light and gleeful touch.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 05, 2008

Class play

Monmouth gives Merchant new status
Interpreting Merchant is a perennial challenge.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 30, 2008

Re-ignition

The spark of Salt Water Moon
Jacob’s re-wooing of Mary, conducted in real time and one act, is the story line of David French’s romantic Salt Water Moon.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 23, 2008

Wait, who are you?

Two virtuoso actors play four hilarious characters
Vaudevillian intimacies are rampant in Charles Ludlam’s Obie-winning two-men-as-everyone comedy, The Mystery of Irma Vep .

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 23, 2008

Star-cross’d singers

PORTOpera's Romeo et Juliette
French Romantic-era composer Charles Gounod’s version of the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet is the most famous operatic setting.

By: EMILY PARKHURST | July 23, 2008

Local Loraxes

Mainers speak of the trees
Choirspeak was conceived as an arts-based way to start and share conversations about our various relationships with Maine’s forests, resources which are in a lot of flux these days.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 16, 2008

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