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: 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....
BWW Review: SPAMALOT at Ogunquit Playhouse
by Dan Marois - June 19, 2021
After being shuttered from its 2020 theater season, the Ogunquit Playhouse enters 2021 in royal fashion with Monty Python's spoof of the King Arthur legend in Spamalot...