Welcome to the MAINE event!
We proudly present the world premiere of Not Dark Yet an original work by playwright Billie Murray. Not Dark Yet is a play about the ties that bind a couple together, and how they come apart in a way neither one expects when an uncomfortable past re-emerges, and another woman enters, offering them both a second chance. Not Dark Yet is a play about honoring the passage of time, the persistence of hope, and a willingness to seek and accept redemption.
Starring Cherie Magnello, Sally Mills and Randall Simons. Directed by Lori Sitzabee. Performances November 1, 2, 8, & 9 at 7pm and 3 and 10 at 3pm
SIX: TEEN EDITION is a full-length adaptation of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ international phenomenon SIX, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st-century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over.
The New York Times says SIX is “pure entertainment!” and the Evening Standard hails SIX as “the most uplifting new British musical I have ever had the privilege to watch.”
Performances January 3, 4, 10 & 11 at 7pm and 5 & 12 at 3pm
The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women by Carolyn Gage A play with intense audience participation! Engrossing, controversial courtroom drama, where the audience must serve as judge and jury, deciding motions and verdict, in a case against the five women who betrayed the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, the last surviving daughter of the Tsar of Russia. Complex ethical questions on a set of folding chairs.
The Anastasia Trials is a farcical but profoundly engaging excursion into the hidden world of ethics for women who are both survivors and perpetrators of abuse
toward women. The format is a play-within-a-play, where a radical feminist theatre company comes together in order to perform a courtroom drama. The play is shaped by the audience decisions to overrule or sustain the attorneys’ motions, and every night’s audience sees a different play.
Directed by Lori Sitzabee
Performances March 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 at 7pm and 23 at 3pm
Imogen an original play by Kenneth Weinberg. A play about an elderly woman near the end of her life, who is physically incapacitated but still mentally sharp as ever, shares the last days of her life with a nurse, her daughter, her daughter’s Jewish boyfriend, a firefighter, her grandson and more.
Directed by Bec Poole
Performances April 18, 19. 25, 26, May 2, 3 at 7pm and April 27 at 3pm
Misery by William Goldman based on the novel by Stephen King follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home.
While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new Misery novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.
Starring Lori Sitzabee & Randall Simons.
Performances June 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 a 7pm and 15 at 3pm
Disney’s Descendants book by Nick Blaemire
music adaptation by Madline Smith
Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Disney's Descendants: The Musical is a brand-new musical jam-packed with comedy, adventure, Disney characters, and hit songs from the films!
Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost – home of the most infamous villains who ever lived – the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil have never ventured off the island… until now. When the four troublemakers are sent to attend prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?
Directed by Lori Sitzabee
Performances August 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 & 23 at 7pm and 17 at 3pm