The Center Stage Players are an ensemble of actors 55 or older, who produce their works as reader’s theater. “I Hope I’m Not Crowding You” features a potpourri of contemporary theater done as staged readings, script in hand. A cast of 11 actors perform the six plays that comprise this offering, dealing with themes of […]
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‘Macbeth’ coming to Vienna stage on Oct. 25
VIENNA — This year the Vienna Union Hall Association will present the Theater at Monmouth’s on-the-road production of “Macbeth” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25. This production is part of “Shakespeare in American Communities,” a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. This will be the third time the […]
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‘Alice in Wonderland’ to be open at Portland children’s theater on Oct. 17
The many curious creatures she meets ask a similar question: “Who are you?” As Alice ventures further into Wonderland, she learns more about herself than she ever imagined possible. This is a brand new adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale full of riddles, poems and songs that will have you thinking “as many as […]
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Vietnam War drama, boxing comedy open at Bates College in Lewiston on Oct. 10
LEWISTON — This fall’s theater schedule at Bates College includes two plays presented as thesis projects by senior theater majors. Gunnar Manchester of Rehoboth, Mass., stars in Susan Felder’s two-character Vietnam War drama “Wasteland” in performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, in the Black Box […]
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The Public Theatre’s ‘The Cocktail Hour’ to open in Lewiston on Oct. 17
In A.R. Gurney’s play, a visiting son tells his well-to-do parents he has written a play about them. As they await a delayed dinner (because “the maid doesn’t know how to cook a roast”), the time-honored cocktail hour stretches out, the alcohol consumption escalates, and the arguments intensify. The play, set in an upper-class home […]
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‘Secret Garden’ opens at Gardiner theater on Oct. 18
GARDINER — The Open Book Players will present an adapted version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s classic story, “The Secret Garden” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at Johnson Hall. The story introduces Mary Lennox (Skye Cotnoir), a sickly, foul-tempered, unsightly little girl who loves no one and […]
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Auburn theater to open auditions for ‘Greetings!’ on Oct. 12
AUBURN — L-A Community Little Theatre has announced that auditions for “Greetings!” will be held Sunday, Oct. 12 and Tuesday, Oct. 14. A “miraculous” play by Tom Dudzick, “Greetings!” is a heartwarming tale about Andy, who has a sweet Catholic mother, a grumpy Catholic father and a developmentally impaired younger brother named Mickey. When he […]
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Bath theater group to open auditions for ‘Fairy Tale Christmas’ on Oct. 12
BATH — Auditions for “A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol” by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12 and at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13. This is a remake of Dickens’ story of Scrooge played by fairy tale characters. Scrooge is the Big Bad Wolf. There are three little […]