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MEGAN GRUMBLING

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Cross-pollination

What can actors and musicians learn from each other?
My contribution to the Band Guide issue is a meditation on some of the telling differences between the theater and band scenes, in the interest of seeing the one pick up a little of the notorious energy and audience of the other.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  February 23, 2006

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Weird love

Funny valentines by USM student playwrights
Those who are on the fence about whether love is funny strange or funny ha-ha can get a little of both in this weekend’s double-header of USM student-written one-acts.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  February 16, 2006

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Playing parents

Throwing it all out at Mad Horse
Parenthood is no happy hour in Baby with the Bathwater (directed by Joan Sand for Mad Horse Theatre), that’s for sure.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  February 09, 2006

Rough Crossing 2/3 list photo

Meta-farce (Portland theater)

Tom Stoppard plays with the play at Portland Stage Company
The SS Italian Castle is almost absurdly gorgeous. With its sleek and imposing height, its glowing portholes peeking into sumptuous Art Deco cabins, and the huge full moon hanging above its deck, this luxury ocean liner seems over-the-top, too dramatic to be true. And that is exactly as it should be. Caricature is the currency of both setting and sensibility in Tom Stoppard’s comedy Rough Crossing .
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  February 01, 2006

Theater Duel List photo (Portland 1/20/06)

On Burr's survival

The Duel imagines New England's secession carried through in NH
Secessionist sentiment up north never made it into action, but one New Hampshire playwright has now asked, What if?
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  January 18, 2006

Theater St Joan list photo (Portland 1/20/06)

Salvation by faith

France's deliverer is an unlikely teenager in St. Joan  
Miracles are subjective, and it’s in this tenuous currency that strident young Joan d’Arc traffics, as she wins and finally loses her countrymen’s hearts and minds.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  January 19, 2006

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Performance/Art

Sending the Arts to camp, and into bed
The twain rarely meet, it seems, when it comes to First Fridays versus opening nights in the Portland theaters. We have our gallery scene, our theater scene, and our music scene, but for the most part, the city’s various arts scenesters tend to stay comfortably within their own disciplines. But why languish in this separate-but-equal sensibility, when we might have rapprochement, integration, even brazen conjugality?
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  January 17, 2006

Radio

Reich and roll on MPG
Gone, mostly, are the days of gathering around the radio for express, focused entertainment.  
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  October 27, 2008

Back to life

Theater stirs in the new year
Well, it was a close call, but now that we’ve crossed the Stygian flood of Christmas Carols and other holiday fiascos, we can get back to the business of theater that might occasionally surprise, scandalize, and even keep us breathing.
By Megan Grumbling  |  December 28, 2005
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