Princesses, Snowmen, and a Full Pit Orchestra: ‘Frozen’ Lands in Bar Harbor.

Historic Criterion Theatre Hosts ACT Musical for First Time in Years. Carrie Jones Apr 16, 2026 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—A cluster of people stand on the Criterion Theatre stage, late Monday afternoon, pondering artificial holiday trees that will soon be a forest. A cluster of dancers and students are told to go try on costumes … Continue reading Princesses, Snowmen, and a Full Pit Orchestra: ‘Frozen’ Lands in Bar Harbor.

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Unto MDI, A Great Community Production is Born!

ACT handles massive cast and massive fun in upcoming Best Christmas Pageant Ever production Carrie Jones Nov 07, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe. BAR HARBOR—When the actors head into rehearsal at the Mount Desert Island High School Saturday afternoon, they seem like more than friends; they seem like family members that love each other, that get along well, … Continue reading Unto MDI, A Great Community Production is Born!

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Want to Understand What Community & Imagination Can Do? Head to the Theater

A Starry Cast and Devoted Crew bring ACT’s “Just So” to the Grand This Friday CARRIE JONES MAY 01, 2024 Share ELLSWORTH—Matt Cornish strides along the aisles of Ellsworth’s Grand Theater. He looks left. He looks right. He listens, leaning forward, as his cast crowds the stage, waiting for his instruction, his notes, his thoughts. “Theater is hard,” he tells his cast of over 40 … Continue reading Want to Understand What Community & Imagination Can Do? Head to the Theater

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You take horror and comedy and mix it with music and what do you get?

People Joyously Making Their Community Better. Together. CARRIE JONES MAY 1, 2023 BAR HARBOR—There’s a group of musicals—Les Miserable, West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wiz, Wicked, Grease—that have created American theater on both the Broadway stages and community and high school theaters in the past few decades. They are the solid standbys, comfortable in their familiarity, joyous in their recreations. Acadia … Continue reading You take horror and comedy and mix it with music and what do you get?

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