The compelling new play “Secret Hour” featuring Jason Cadieux as Ben and Katharine McLeod as Kate will open on Friday, March 15, and running through March 24, at The Public Theatre in Lewiston. This will be the play’s second production after its world premiere last year in New York. Playwright Jenny Stafford will be joining […]
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Entertaining and thought-provoking ‘Secret Hour’ taking stage at The Public Theatre
The compelling new play “Secret Hour,” an entertaining, humorous, poignant, and thought-provoking production, will be staged at The Public Theatre in Lewiston. This will be the play’s second production after its world premiere last year in New York. For fun, a married couple invents a game where they confess unflattering truths about themselves and promise […]
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The Public Theatre production of ‘Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help’ begins this weekend
“Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help,” featuring Scarlett Thomas as Becky and Kelsey Petersen as Linda, will play Jan. 26 through Feb. 4 at The Public Theatre in Lewiston. It’s 1973 and the O’Shea family faces a comic crisis of biblical proportions when the parish priest overhears their 19-year-old daughter tell her younger sister […]
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Lewiston theater pioneer Christopher Schario plans exit with Public Theatre in good hands
He and Janet Mitchko built a 31-year statewide reputation for professional, affordable theater in Lewiston.
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Ray Dumont returns to Lewiston to fill role of executive director at The Public Theatre
With Christopher Schario’s retirement, the Lewiston native with a wealth of theater and management experience will take over a key position.
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Cast announced for ‘Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help’ at The Public Theatre
It’s 1973 and the O’Shea family faces a crisis of biblical proportions when their 19-year-old daughter tells her younger sister about “the birds and the bees” and is overheard by the parish priest. Holy hell and hilarity break loose as the O’Sheas band together and prove that nothing is more sacred than family, in the […]
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‘A Christmas Carol’ opens at The Public Theatre
Nicholas Perron as The Ghost of Christmas Present in “A Christmas Carol” on stage Dec. 8, through Dec. 10, at The Public Theatre in Lewiston. This inventive version, performed by six actors and a fiddler, was developed and written for The Public Theatre by co-artistic director Christopher Schario in 1993, and has since been published […]
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‘A Christmas Carol’ returns to The Public Theatre
This holiday season, for one weekend only, The Public Theatre will present its acclaimed adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” on Dec. 8, 9, and 10. This inventive version, performed by six actors and a fiddler, was developed and written for The Public Theatre by Co-Artistic Director Christopher Schario in 1993, and has since been published […]
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‘My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories’ opens at The Public Theatre
“My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories” will be staged at The Public Theatre in Lewiston. “My Witch” is the tale of the brains, heart and courage it took for a gentle kindergarten teacher from Cleveland, Ohio to become The Wicked Witch of The West as well as one of the most famous character actresses of […]
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The Public Theatre presents spellbinding ‘My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories’
“My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories,” the amazing tale of the brains, heart, and courage it took for a gentle kindergarten teacher from Cleveland, Ohio to become The Wicked Witch of The West as well as one of the most famous character actresses of her time, will be performed beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov […]