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Maine's quirky summer stage season

History + mystery
Summertime and a lush arboreal landscape is an unexpected setting for Samuel Beckett's flinty Waiting for Godot , and this reviewer is already stirred.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | June 15, 2011

Review: Orphans become family at Seacoast Rep

Going it alone
For years, Philip (Michael Propster) has lived shut up in a sordid North Philadelphia apartment and in the vacuum of his older brother Treat's tyranny. Motivated by equal parts love, fear, fraternal jockeying, and his own repressed sense of loss, Treat (Kent Burnham) has kept Philip away from the world and frozen in a state of suspended childhood.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 23, 2011

Review: Seacoast Rep's clever Rooms

Rock and love
Monica (Christine Dulong), a go-getter songwriter and Glasgow’s "young Jewish entertainer of the year," at first seems a poor match for snarky rocker Ian (Graham Bailey), who hides out in his bedroom noodling on his guitar and taking slugs from a flask. ("Can you blame me?" he asks. "Have you seen the public lately?")
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | September 22, 2010

Star power

Seacoast Rep's top-notch Rent
Seacoast Rep's top-notch Rent
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 13, 2010

Profit secrets

Seacoast Rep has the keys to Business success
Considering the current climate of our feelings toward big business, it's kind of a relief to revert from the present to a bygone era, and from dreary reality to colorful stylizations. In Seacoast Repertory's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , the clock spins back to 1959.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | June 24, 2009

Profit secrets

Farcing facts

Seacoast Rep knows some funny Rumors
The Brocks' posh house in the suburbs of New York is a study in contrasting eras: Its turn-of-the-century architecture is trimmed with gorgeous wood moldings and banister, with austere green and amber stained glass.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 15, 2009

Tasty bites

Seacoast puts on a Horror show
Kevin Hauge directs a production that’s fun, sharp, and well-appointed, if a touch shy on camp, for Portsmouth’s Seacoast Repertory Theatre.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 09, 2008

Seeing in the Dark

Seacoast Rep's sensitive interplay
Susy is a tireless master over the landscape of her Manhattan basement apartment.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 05, 2008

Darkness in lights

Preview 2008: the winter of malcontents
The coming cold season of theater looks to veer toward darkness, crime, acrimony, and/or moral and sexual ambiguity — excellent news!
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 26, 2007

Don't shoot!

You'll want both eyes for Seacoast Rep's Christmas Story
Young Ralphie is a 9-year-old who knows exactly what he wants.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 28, 2007

Underdog days of summer

Those Damn Yankees are back at Seacoast Rep
Conjure, if you will, the defining emotional ethos of the Red Sox Nation of just a few years back.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 03, 2007

Portrait of an artist

Anne Frank's diary is just the beginning
Anne Frank’s celebrated diary is not just a window into daily life during a horrific time. In these loving, compulsive entries, we can also see the raw ore of an artist: the undeniable urge toward expression.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 21, 2006

Aging warnings

It's not just you who's getting old
Each night smiles three times, the aged and jaded Madame Armfelt (Maggie Mark) tells her young granddaughter Fredrika (Hannah Forsley): first for the young, who know nothing; second for the fools, who know too little; and finally for the old, who know too much.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | September 20, 2006

Burning Rome

In strong farce, with just the right tone
Seacoast Repertory Theatre’s production of the Sondheim classic is droll, zestily paced, and full of bright colors and enticing choreography.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 06, 2006