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Interview: Act Two for Portland's Good Theater Theater
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - September 14, 2024
A hush fell over the audience at the Hill Center last March when Good Theater’s Executive/Artistic Director, Brain P. Allen, concluded his curtain speech with the news that the current production of A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE would be the last for the GOOD THEATER on Munjoy Hill. The theatre company, w...
Good Theater and Stevens Square at Baxter Woods Launch New Partnership
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 15, 2024
Good Theater and Stevens Square at Baxter Woods have launched a new partnership aimed at transforming Portland's cultural landscape....
Review: A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at Hill Arts Center
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - March 02, 2024
Portland’s Good Theater poetic, poignant revival of the Ahrens/Flaherty musical, A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, exquisitely directed by Brian P. Allen, marks several memorable milestones for this company which has been a jewel in Portland’s theatrical scene for twenty-one seasons....
Good Theater to Present A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE Beginning This Month
by Blair Ingenthron - February 10, 2024
Good Theater will present A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally, based on the 1994 Albert Finney film of the same title. Learn more about the production here!...
Review: ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS at Good Theater
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - January 21, 2024
Portland’s Good Theater newest production is a side-splittingly funny, perfectly timed farce with ancient roots in Italy’s Commedia dell’Arte, Richard Bean’s ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS....
Review: Good Theater Pays Tribute to Broadway's Golden Age in BROADWAY AT THE GOOD: THE TWIN PIANO EDITION
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - November 05, 2023
The Good Theater presents a fresh take on its annual musical revue, BROADWAY AT THE GOOD: THE TWIN PIANO EDITION, this time honoring six seminal musicals from Broadway’s Golden Age, performed by a sprightly company of nine under the direction of Brian P. Allen, who conceived and directed the show an...
BWW Review: Luminous Production of FIREFLIES Opens Good Theater Season
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - October 23, 2023
The Good Theater opens its 21st season with a luminous production of Matthew Barber’s poignant 2017 play about the flickers of late-life romance, expertly directed by Brian P. Allen, starring Valerie Perri in a nuanced, delicate and incandescent performance.
FIREFLIES, as the title and central meta...
FIREFLIES Comes to Good Theater
by Stephi Wild - September 27, 2023
Good Theater has announced FIREFLIES by Matthew Barber as the opener of the company's 21st season. Learn more about the show and find out how to get tickets here!...
Good Theater Reveals Lineup For 2023-24 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 09, 2023
Following a successful 20th anniversary season in 2022 and early 2023, Good Theater has announced the schedule for the 2023/2024 season. ...
Warm, Wacky, and Wonderful: Good Theater's Revival of YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - April 17, 2023
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s classic, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, is eighty-six years young, and the latest revival at Portland’s Good Theater makes a strong case for the work’s perennial appeal. Directed by Brian P. Allen and featuring a cast of eighteen, most Good Theater veterans, this delig...
Past Shows
A Man of No Importance
2/28 - 3/24/2024
Good Theater will cap off the company’s 21st season with the smart and tender musical A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE with music by Stephen Flaherty, ...
One Man, Two Guvnors
1/17 - 2/11/2024
Good Theater will kick off the new year with the side-splitting comedy ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS by Richard Bean, starring local favorite Dustin Tucker in ...
Broadway at Good Theater: Twin Pianos Edition
11/1 - 11/19/2023
Good Theater is proud to present the annual musical event BROADWAY AT GOOD THEATER – with a twin pianos twist! Nine singers, the two amazing ...
Fireflies
10/11 - 10/29/2023
Good Theater is delighted to announce FIREFLIES by Matthew Barber as the opener of the company’s 21st season. Directed by Good Theater Artistic and Executive ...
You Can't Take It With You
3/29 - 4/23/2023
Good Theater is proud to present the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU as the finale of its 20th anniversary season, running ...
Nureyev's Eyes
2/22 - 3/12/2023
Good Theater continues its 20th anniversary season with NUREYEV’S EYES, running February 22nd through March 12th. Directed by James Noel Hoban, the production will star ...
The High Road
2/1 - 2/19/2023
Good Theater continues its 20th anniversary season with THE HIGH ROAD, running February 1st through the 19th. THE HIGH ROAD stars Steve Underwood, who also ...
Killer Comfort
2/4 - 2/18/2023
Good Theater continues its 20th anniversary season with the world premiere of KILLER COMFORT, written and performed by Good Theater favorite Lynne McGhee. Grab your ...
Crimes of the Heart
1/11 - 1/29/2023
Good Theater welcomes the new year and continues its 20th anniversary season with Crimes of the Heart , running January 11th through January 29th. Written ...
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel
11/9 - 12/4/2022
Good Theater is proud to continue its 20th anniversary season with Carousel , running October 5th through October 30th. Based on the play Liliom by ...
The Lifespan of a Fact
10/5 - 10/30/2022
Good Theater is proud to open its 20th anniversary season with THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT, running October 5th through October 30th. Based on the ...
Back to Good Times
4/17 - 4/24/2022
Comedy?! Who needs comedy in harrowing times? We all do! Join us for the theatrical premiere of original comedy shorts, ad parodies and music videos. ...
DESPERATE MEASURES
3/30 - 4/24/2022
After postponing the initial run due to COVID-19 during the spring of 2020, Good Theater is proud to finally present the Maine premiere of DESPERATE ...
SIGNIFICANT OTHER
3/2 - 3/20/2022
GOOD THEATER PRESENTS JOSHUA HARMONS ROMANTIC COMEDY SIGNIFICANT OTHERRomance is back in the air at Good Theater with Joshua Harmons bittersweet hit comedy SIGNIFICANT OTHER. ...
Harry Townsend's Last Stand
2/2 - 2/20/2022
Good Theater returns for the second half of the 2021/2022 season with the Maine premiere of HARRY TOWNSENDS LAST STAND by George Eastman. A smash ...
Broadway Goes Pop
1/29 - 2/8/2022
Good Theater returns for the second half of the 2021/2022 season with BROADWAY GOES POP, a tribute to the pop hits that have made their ...
WHO’S HOLIDAY - Back by Popular Demand!
11/24 - 12/5/2021
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Good Theater ushers in the holiday season with the Maine premiere of WHO'S HOLIDAY! by Matthew Lombardo. The production opens November ...
Broadway at Good Theater: Tribute to the 1990s
11/17 - 11/21/2021
Good Theater is delighted to announce the line up of this years Broadway at Good Theater. The annual musical event runs November 17th through the ...
Jane Austen's Lady Susan
10/20 - 11/14/2021
The 2021-2022 season kicks off with the world premiere of LADY SUSAN, a delightful comedy of manners adapted by Rob Urbinati from the Jane Austen ...
Popcorn Falls
1/8 - 2/2/2020
What do you get when you mix WAITING FOR GUFFMAN with GREATER TUNA? James Hindmans POPCORN FALLS! A hit off-Broadway last season, POPCORN FALLS is ...
Murderers
1/11 - 2/1/2020
Good Theater continues its Second Stage series with MURDERERS, the darkly hilarious comedy by Jeffrey Hatcher. The production will run in repertory with the current ...
Broadway at Good Theater
12/4 - 12/8/2019
Good Theaters annual fundraising concert is a salute Broadway music and holiday tunes. This years tribute is to the fabulous 40s! More than 20 singers, ...
Lucky Stiff
3/27 - 4/28/2019
Ahrens & Flaherty's hilarious musical comedy, Lucky Stiff features a hapless shoe salesman who will inherit $6 million if he takes his dead uncle on ...
The Irish Curse
2/23 - 3/16/2019
The Maine premiere of Martin Casella's hilarious, The Irish Curse, as a second stage production directed by Paul Haley, starring Seth Berner, Thomas Ian Campbell, ...
A Doll's House Part 2
2/20 - 2/17/2019
Lucas Hnath's award winning play, A Doll's House Part 2, makes its Portland debut starring Abbie Killeen, James Noel Hoban, Maureen Butler and Hannah Daly, ...
An Act of God
1/16 - 2/10/2019
David Javerbaum's hit comedy, An Act of God, in its Maine premiere starring Laura Houck as God, with Paul Haley and Michael Lynch, directed by ...
Love Loss and What I Wore
1/19 - 2/9/2019
Nora and Deliah Ephron's hit play, Love, Loss and What I Wore, makes a return visit after last year's smash Maine premiere....
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
10/3 - 10/28/2018
Good Theater presents the Tony Award winning Best Play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in its Portland debut....
No Biz Like Show Biz
9/23 - 10/11/2015
No Biz Like Show Biz, conceived & directed by Brian P. Allen, with musical direction and arrangements by Victoria Stubbs, starring Marie Dittmer, Lynne McGhee ...
Videos
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Charles's Christmas Carol Story
Schoolhouse Arts Center (12/6 - 12/15) | |
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Every Brilliant Thing
The Public Theatre (1/24 - 2/2) | |
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Matinicus
Penobscot Theatre Company (3/20 - 4/6) | |
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Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn
City Theater (12/6 - 12/22) | |
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Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Waterville Opera House (11/14 - 11/30) | |
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Dial M For Murder
Penobscot Theatre Company (1/30 - 2/23) | |
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Deathtrap
Waterville Opera House (8/29 - 9/6) | |
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Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
Waterville Opera House (4/25 - 5/4) | |
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