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MDI Drama Students Aim for the Spotlight at States—But Need Your Help Regional winners will hold performance Wednesday to raise funds
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MDI Drama Students Aim for the Spotlight at States—But Need Your Help

Regional winners will hold performance Wednesday to raise funds Carrie Jones Mar 13, 2025 Share MOUNT DESERT ISLAND—Some local students need the community’s help to get to the state drama championships at the end of March in Camden Hills, a spot they earned by their Class A regional win for their performance of Eurydice. “It is an important accomplishment. First, we have to win the regional … Continue reading MDI Drama Students Aim for the Spotlight at States—But Need Your Help

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Criterion’s Future Is Uncertain

Staff let go and theater closed as board contemplates extensive repairs and way to move forward Carrie Jones Jan 21, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Flow like a river: that’s what former Criterion Theatre Production Manager Chuck Colbert would tell the staff before big events and performance. Do your work. Take obstacles in stride. Do it all with love. Flow like a river. As of January 12, … Continue reading Criterion’s Future Is Uncertain

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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
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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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