Jun 15 Sunday
Maine Public is pleased to be a media sponsor of Maine State Music Theatre’s Anastasia: The Musical.
Anastasia is set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and 1920s Paris and follows Anya, a young woman with amnesia, as she uncovers her true identity.
Maine State Music Theatre’s Anastasia: The Musical will be performed at the Pickard Theater in Brunswick from June 4th through June 21st.
Maine Public members are eligible for 15% off tickets for this event, please use the code MainePublic25.
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Maine Public is pleased to be a media sponsor of the 2025 Camden Opera House’s Jazz in June Series. Jazz in June runs June 13th-15th with headline performers, The Julia Keefe Quartet and Spyro Gyra.
Concerts will take place at the Camden Opera House and other locations, indoors and outdoors, around Camden.
Maine Public members are eligible for 15% off tickets for this event. To take advantage of the Maine Public Member discount, please use the code MainePublic25.
Jun 26 Thursday
Join in the fun and register your team for a 2025 News & Brews Trivia night!
Team check-in starts at 5:30pm. Trivia starts at 6:00pm!
*Note that we can’t accept teams with more than 5 players.
Click HERE to see the full 2025 News & Brews schedule!
Jun 30 Monday
Jennifer Finney Boylan will discuss the book Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us with host Bill Nemitz on Monday, June 30th at 7:00 pm.
Do you love books? Are you interested in hearing from the author and looking behind the curtain at what the author was thinking while writing? Perhaps have the author respond to a question or two that has been on your mind about a particular scene or character. Look no further than the Maine Public Book Club!
Click HERE to join the book club and receive information about book club news & events!
“Keep Singing!” is a showcase of three short musicals by musical-writing duo Linda Hildonen and Colby Michaud. In “It’s Complicated”, a couple’s therapy session goes awry when the therapist brings out a “very special guitar.” In “Chasing James”, Brody, a coffee shop owner, earnestly attempts to help his best friend to stop making the same old mistakes in his quest to find true love. Finally, in “Home Again”, a woman grapples with making a decision that may lead to her never seeing her father again.
Ranging from laugh-out-loud funny to tearfully poignant, this trio of shows is not to be missed. All proceeds will go directly to supporting LACLT’s mission, so mark your calendars now for a night that where you’ll not only leave feeling good, you’ll be doing good.
Performances are June 6th, 7th, 13th, and 14th at 7:30pm and June 8th and 15th, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
Tickets and subscriptions are available online at www.laclt.com/box-office-1 or by calling 783-0958. Ticket prices (including all fees) are $25.00 for adults, $22.00 for seniors and students, and $17.00 for children ages 13 and under.
Jun 19 Thursday
Often called Broadway’s perfect musical, this Tony Award-winner finds big-time high roller Sky Masterson gambling everything he’s got to make reluctant Salvation Army reformer Miss Sarah Brown fall in love with him. Featuring such memorable tunes as “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat,” “Luck Be a Lady,” and “I’ve Never Been in Love Before.” Guys and Dolls is guaranteed to charm audiences of all ages.
Jun 20 Friday
Shrek the Musical is a hilarious, heartwarming fairy tale where the unexpected shines. Curses are broken, monsters become heroes, donkeys and dragons fall in love, and princesses prove beauty comes in all forms.
Grumpy, green ogre Shrek enjoys his quiet swamp life—until a band of fairy tale misfits invades, fleeing the cruel Lord Farquaad. To reclaim his home, Shrek strikes a deal: rescue Princess Fiona from a dragon-guarded tower so Farquaad can marry her, and the swamp is his again.
On his quest, Shrek discovers Fiona is no ordinary princess, and their journey sparks laughter, adventure, and even love. With dazzling sets, quirky puppetry, and show-stopping numbers, Shrek the Musical brings a beloved story to life, proving happy endings come in all shapes and sizes.
It’s a heartwarming, hilarious celebration of love, acceptance, and the magic of finding your true self—a must-see for dreamers of all ages! Directed by Zack Balkcom, choreography by Kristen MacBride with music direction by Mary Bastoni
Kindly Sponsored by HOME PORT Realty
A Tincture of Time is a multimedia, psychedelic play based on the author's experiences at a large hospital caring for a baby with significant medical needs. The play repositions the hospital as the important spiritual borderland it is and its personnel as magical practitioners who have access to different dimensions. Like all hospitals, it is not without its faults. This production combines the artistic visions of various artists, performers and musicians to capture the surreal experience of submitting to life in the hospital.
Legendary filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist, John Waters returns to The Waldo with his new show: THE NAKED TRUTH. Ok, John Waters is finally coming clean, so to speak, and his all-new, secret-sharing, one-man crackpot comedy show dares to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the filthy truth. Over-sharing? You bet. Too much information? Maybe so, but airing his dirty laundry makes Waters feel clean. He’ll talk to you straight even when he’s definitely not. Waters knows the truth isn’t always pretty and he doesn’t shy away from the social horrors of our present times–-whimsical motion pictures, the humiliation of the human body and the unwanted nudity of fellow travelers in the airport. Yet Waters knows he’s not perfect either. He too has flaws. No matter what he preaches, he does judge others and in his show he names names and assigns blame. He stylishly blows up prejudice, humorously overthrows theocracy, and falls off the soapbox of self-righteous sexual politics and climbs right back on with a revolutionary horniness for a woke poke. Yessiree, Waters tells you the truth. The Naked Truth. Shut up and listen. Famed the world over for his trash epics including Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, Serial Mom, Cry Baby, Hairspray, and coming soon to the big screen, the film adaptation of his brilliantly twisted first novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance. The recipient of numerous honors and accolades, most recently the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened “John Waters: Pope of Trash,” the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to his contributions to cinema. He was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and American Cinema Editors selected Waters to receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award in 2024. Dreamland News : John Waters
Jun 21 Saturday
Mind Reader is not a show to simply watch, it’s an experience to be a part of. Every performance of Mind Reader is a different journey guided by the unique choices of each individual audience. There will be incredible feats of memory, discovery of new abilities, and of course, unbelievable mind reading.
"An entrancing one-man show" - No Proscenium
"Mind blowing" - City Magazine
"You'll be mesmerized" - Orlando Weekly
Saturday, June 21 @ Portland Stage Theater for Kids - 25 Forest Ave
Monday & Wednesday, June 23rd & 25th @ Rising Tide Brewing - 103 Fox St
Friday, June 27th @ Apohadion Theater - 107 Hanover St