Monthly Archives: August 2012

PTC and Maine Discovery Museum create fun for the whole family!

Maine Discovery Museum and Penobscot Theatre Company are at it again September 8th! Bangor, Maine-August 28, 2012 –Maine Discovery Museum and Penobscot Theatre join forces again to bring you another installment of Parents’ Night Out: Downtown! On the first Saturday of every new Penobscot Theatre opening, we will be working together to bring an affordable […]

PTC Announces Expanded Fall Dramatic Academy Offerings – Ages 4 – 400!

  “Penobscot Theatre’s Dramatic Academy is committed to providing students of all ages a training ground to explore the performing arts.  Through collaboration with professionally trained instructors we strive to foster learning, growth, and skill acquisition amongst our students.  In doing so, we look to build a greater community and inspire a lifelong love of […]

PTC Summer Students Prepare First Local Production of Spring Awakening

Meet the Cast!: CAST The Girls: Wendla…………………….Lauren Barkhouse Martha…………………….Stephanie Colavito Thea……………………………….Lauren Huang Anna……………………………………Mary Clark Ilse……………………………….Georgia Zildjian Marianna…………………..Kalyn VanValkenburgh The Adult Women……..Jasmine A. Ireland Frau Bergman (Wendla’s Mother) Fraulein Kneppeldick Fraulein Grossebustenhalter Frau Gabor (Melchior’s Mother) Frau Bessell (Martha’s Mother) The Boys: Melchior………………………Cameron Wright Mortiz………………………Justin Chamberlain Hanschen/Rupert……………….Tim Follette Ernst/Reinhold………….Tommy McCarthy Georg/Dieter…………………….Conor Kenny Otto/Ulbrecht……………………..Alek Sayers The Adult […]

Penobscot Theatre’s Young Adult Series takes on the first local production of Spring Awakening in the state of Maine

“Really?! You’re going to do Spring Awakening?! In Bangor? With young people?”  These were among the most common statements I heard when I announced the play choice for the launch of our Young Adult Series at Penobscot Theatre. My answer? “You bet I am.” Having spent what I have now realized is seventeen years working […]