by Judy Harrison of The Bangor Daily News: Theater lovers should rush to the Bangor Opera House box office and beg: “Please, sir, I want some more.” Not more of the gruel served to workhouse orphans in the musical “Oliver!” being performed there this holiday season,...
by Allen Adams of The Maine Edge: There’s murder afoot at the Bangor Opera House. Penobscot Theatre Company presents ‘Murder for Two,’ a thrilling musical murder mystery. The book is written by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair, with Kinosian writing the...
by Judy Harrison of The Bangor Daily News: What the members of the Knapely branch of the Women’s Institute wanted in 1998 was to buy a settee for the visitors’ lounge at the local hospital. What they wound up doing was raising enough money to buy the furniture and to...
by Allen Adams of The Maine Edge: One of Bangor’s longest-tenured artistic organizations is preparing to kick off yet another season. Penobscot Theatre Company is just days away from the kickoff of its 43rd season of producing live theater for audiences from greater...
by Judy Harrison of The Bangor Daily News: Fourteen-year-old Raven Sockalexis grew up hearing stories about Gluskabe, the transformer who shaped the landscape and the traditions of the Wabanaki people. Ruby El-Hajj, 16, grew up 30 miles south of Indian Island, in the...
by Judy Harrison of The Bangor Daily News: I walked into the Bangor Opera House on Friday night fully prepared to dislike Penobscot Theatre Company’s production of “Rock of Ages.” But, then, Andrew Crowe lurched onto the stage in pleather pants, a fake fur coat and...
