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REDshift
REDshift
1/10 - 1/18/2025


Southworth presents the world premier of REDshift , a play inside the planetarium about Elisse, a high-functioning autistic young woman whose passion leads her to use ...

Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh
12/7 - 12/29/2024


Winnie-the-Pooh at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine December 7 - 29, 2024   Tickets: $20. Members receive a 10% discount. www.kitetails.org/winniethepooh    About: ...

The Children's Hour
The Children's Hour
1/10 - 1/19/2025


True North Theatre announces their winter 2025 production of the classic play THE CHILDREN’S HOUR by Lillian Hellman and directed by Angela Bonacasa, coming to ...

Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing
1/24 - 2/2/2025


Told with the help of the audience, this hilarious, heartbreaking and critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway hit is an interactive life-affirming experience you will never forget.

Madeleines
Madeleines
3/5 - 3/23/2025


Some family secrets are hard to swallow! Here is a play from a Maine writer, a new play that is already a multi-award winner and ...

Matinicus
Matinicus
3/20 - 4/6/2025


A girl. A rock. A storm. A light in the dark.  Life is hard enough for a bright and independent 13 year old girl in1853, ...

Mother Russia
Mother Russia
4/1 - 4/18/2025


2 spies.  A Pop Star.  Glasnost.  Respect your mother.  When the iron curtain falls, what’s next? In the spring of 1992, Communism has fallen and brought ...

Not Quite Almost
Not Quite Almost
4/2 - 5/4/2025


Playwright John Cariani is best known for his first play, Almost, Maine, which has become one of the most popular plays in the world. Almost, ...

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


As the New York Journal-American states, “This is a big one.” Part of the American Theater Canon, this play is sure to have us on ...

Deathtrap
Deathtrap
8/29 - 9/6/2025


Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted ...



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