Review by Nan Lincoln Special to the Islander BANGOR — Anyone with the notion that improv performers are simply actors who can’t memorize lines needs to go see Jen Shepard in the one women tour-d’ force, “Becoming Dr. Ruth,” which opened last weekend, at the Penobscot Theatre Company’s Bangor Opera House. Best known, perhaps, for …
The success of this show rests on the small shoulders of the young actor chosen to play Matilda, who has a daunting amount of dialogue to say, songs to sing and stage business to perform.
“One thing you can count on from MDI is that each year brings a new genre of storytelling,” commented one judge.
For many theater goers, summer just isn’t complete until a murder has been solved in Somesville.
The New Surry Theatre production of “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Revised)” is the perfect brief escape from the doldrums of mud season in Maine or the horrific news of the world.
It has been two years since the LCA has staged one of its excellent productions at its charming Grange Hall Theater.
I must say, though, that it really would have been an hour and a half of squirming in my seat had the ensemble of NST actors failed to make their characters so likeable and relatable.
Nimbus Dance Works, which, pre-pandemic, had for the last several years traveled from its New Jersey home to Mount Desert Island to perform and conduct dance workshops, is back.
Moore may have enjoyed her cigarettes and scotch, but she lived a long and productive life, writing her last book, “Sarah Walked Over the Mountain,” at age of 79, just six years before her death.
How wonderful it was to walk down a bustling Cottage Street, after a splendid outdoor meal at Mama Dimatteo’s, toward the flashing lights of the Criterion’s glorious marquee promising, “LIVE PERFORMANCE TONIGHT.”
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