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Review: Pontine explores Hawthorne's ancestral thriller

Spirit world
Perhaps nowhere in America is the past as tangible a presence as it is in New England.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 04, 2011

Ordinary people

Pontine's latest Jewett adaptation
Born and raised in South Berwick, the writer Sarah Orne Jewett spent her life noticing the lives of ordinary Maine people. Her esteemed 1896 The Country of the Pointed Firs is a series of wise, gentle sketches of the aging folks of several small maritime villages.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 03, 2010

Rich power

Pontine lushly retells Jewett's stories
The Maine writer Sarah Orne Jewett, born in South Berwick in 1849, memorably focused her work on the ordinary people of rural nineteenth-century Maine.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 29, 2009

Myth and legend

Portland theatre: 2007 in review
With no ado, here are some of the last year’s theatrical highlights.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 19, 2007

Honoring home

Pontine opens up another chapter of the past
Preacher-turned-photographer Wallace Nutting was enamored of “the earliest forms” of America.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 02, 2007

Thinking ahead

The coming year on the boards
On the civic side of things comes a new play, a public-service production about sex education, from ADD VERB PRODUCTIONS .
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 28, 2010

Strolling back

A people’s history of Portsmouth
For an encounter with such daily details of 17th- and 18th-century New England life, idle awhile with Brewster’s Rambles About Portsmouth , the fine newest addition to the social-historical repertoire of Portsmouth's Pontine Theatre.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 03, 2006