Maine Theater Reviews

Review: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - July 22, 2024

The Ogunquit Playhouse is filling its summer nights with a little night music- literally. A Little Night Music is a sophisticated musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler set in early 20th century Sweden. The story revolves around a complex web of relationshi...

Review: INTO THE WOODS at Hackmatack Playhouse
by Dan Marois - July 08, 2024

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Review: CRAZY FOR YOU at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - June 22, 2024

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Review: WAITRESS at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - May 15, 2024

What did our critic think of WAITRESS at Ogunquit Playhouse? The Ogunquit Playhouse has a well-earned reputation for delivering crowd-pleasing productions, and their 2024 season opener, 'Waitress,' is no exception....

Review: TOOTSIE at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - October 02, 2023

What happens when 'he' becomes 'she' in order to advance a theater career? The answer is Tootsie....

Review: YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU at Footlights Theatre
by Dan Marois - September 10, 2023

One of the best intimate theater experiences of the year. ...

Review: THE DA VINCI CODE at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - August 28, 2023

One great mystery to solve. ...

Review: ON YOUR FEET! THE STORY OF EMILIO & GLORIA ESTEFEN at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - July 24, 2023

What did our critic think of ON YOUR FEET! THE STORY OF EMILIO & GLORIA ESTEFEN at Ogunquit Playhouse?...

Review: MARY POPPINS Soars to New Heights at The Bangor Opera House
by Elaine Bard - June 22, 2023

What did our critic think of “MARY POPPINS,” SOARS TO NEW HEIGHTS AT THE BANGOR OPERA HOUSE at Penobscot Theatre Company?...

Review: SINGING IN THE RAIN at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - June 20, 2023

What did our critic think of SINGING IN THE RAIN at Ogunquit Playhouse?...

Review: BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - May 16, 2023

What did our critic think of BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse?...

Review: CRIMES OF THE HEART at the Good Theater
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - January 14, 2023

CRIMES OF THE HEART, Beth Henley’s Pulitzer-Prize winning 1981 dark comedy about three sisters and their shared secrets, receives a compelling production, directed by Brian P. Allen, at Portland’s Good Theater. Set in the Mississippi in the mid-twentieth century, Henley’s character-driven play has C...

Review: BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - September 21, 2022

What did our critic think of BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse? The show is a revealing story about pop music icon, Carole King. While many know of her success as a solo vocalist and song writer after releasing the album, 'Tapestry,' few will know about her previous career as...

Review: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - July 17, 2022

The Nutty Professor at the Ogunquit Playhouse is a newly retooled world premiere musical based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis film of the same title. A comic flick favorite, The Nutty Professor is a story of a Jekyll and Hyde transformation that takes place for a mild mannered and befuddled college profess...

BWW Review: THE CHER SHOW at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - May 26, 2022

Imagine yourself going to a concert by performing legend, Cher. Then imagine that she spends the evening telling you about her life story through the difficulties of a struggling career to the transformation that made her an entertainment powerhouse. And she's not aloof on center stage. Throughout t...

BWW Review: Portland Stage Presents New Chamber Opera About Psychoanalysis Pioneer: SABINA
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - May 16, 2022

Portland Stage closes its 2021-2022 season with a new play with music that is really a chamber opera, SABINA, about the pioneer in psychoanalysis, the muse and lover of Carl Jung and colleague of Sigmund Freud, Sabina Spielrein. Sabina’s story from Jung’s catatonic patient to medical student and res...

BWW Review: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - October 11, 2021

I loved every minute of the musical, Young Frankenstein, the season closer for what has been an incredible year for the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine's treasured seaside town....

BWW Review: MYSTIC PIZZA - A NEW MUSICAL at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - September 07, 2021

This world premiere is among the best of those presented by Ogunquit Playhouse with a charming, light-hearted story, an incredibly talented cast, costuming that you might still find in the clothes closet in the attic, and a string of 1980s tunes that will have you reminiscing about big hair, neon co...

BWW Review: ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - July 21, 2021

The Ogunquit Playhouse rolls out the second show of its 2021 season with a performance of Jimmy Buffet's Escape to Margaritaville, a jukebox musical with music and lyrics by (no surprise) Jimmy Buffet and book by Greg Garcia and Mike O'Malley....