Past Productions

The Children's Theatre of Maine has a history going back more than eight decades.

This will be the location for info on our history. We hope you enjoy it.

Our thanks go to Abraham Schechter for taking on this project.

For plays from 1934 to 1970 please click here.

Productions frm 1970 to the Present

Aesop's Fables (Nov-Dec)
The Clown and His Circus (Jan-Feb)
Winnie-the-Pooh (Apr-May)
Punch and Judy (July-Aug)

Quixote! (Nov)
Alice in Wonderland of Pooh (Nov-Dec)
Man's Best Friend (Jan-Feb)
Fly, Johnny, Fly (Apr-May)

Summer Soup (Jun-Aug)
The Last Word (Jul)
Pettitcoat Pirate (Aug)
Candlestick Jack (Aug)

WinterÕs Tails (Fall-Winter)
Quixote !
A Different Drummer

Androcles and the Lion (Nov '74)
The Burning of Falmouth ('75)

Summer Ô76
Pinocchio (Jul)
Peanut Butter Readers (Aug)
Circus Wagon Theatre (Aug)

The EmporerÕs New C'othes
The Lion Who WouldnÕt
Alice in the Wonderland of Pooh
Rumpelstiltskin and the Rabbit Prince

Jemima Puddleduck
Petitcoat Pirate
Little Match Girl
The Last Word
Candlestick Jack

Measure for Measure
Tales of Maine
A Christmas Carol
I Beg Your Pardon
Robin Hood

Cinderella (Sep-Oct)
A Christmas Carol (Dec)
Glooscap the Magician (Jan)
Beauty and the Beast (Feb)

Pinocchio (Oct-Nov)
The Perfect Gift (Holiday Presentation) (Nov-Jan)
Baba Yaga (Russian Folk Tale) (Jan-Feb)
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Feb-Apr)

Hand Springs (Oct)
Sleighbells (Nov-Dec)
The Jungle Book (Jan-Feb)
Jewels from the Sea (Mar-Apr)

Story Theatre (23 Oct - 20 Nov)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (27 Nov - 18 Dec)
The Clown (8 Jan - 5 Feb)
Tom Sawyer (12 Feb - 12 Mar)

Androcles and the Lion (Sep-Oct)
Cinderella (Jan-Feb)
Alice in Wonderland (Mar-Apr)

Alice in Wonderland
The Emporer's New Clothes
A Christmas Carol
The Brave Little Tailor
Tales of Maine
Snow White

Aladdin and His Magic Lamp (Sep-Feb)
A Christmas Carol (Nov-Dec)
The Ransom of Red Chief (Feb-May)

YouÕre a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Oct-Nov)
Godspell (Nov) - with Maine Youth Ensemble
The Gift of the Magi (Dec)
Babes in Toyland (Jan) - with Maine Youth Ensemble
The Frog Prince (Feb)
Golden Years (Apr)
The Red Shoes (Apr-May)

Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Oct)
A Christmas Carol (Dec)
Rumplestiltskin
Hansel and Gretel (Jan-Feb)

Androcles and the Lion (Jan-Feb)
The Velveteen Rabbit (Feb-Mar)
Theater Festival (Feb)
How to Eat Like a Child (Mar)
Alice in Wonderland (Apr-May)

Androcles and the Lion (Jan)
The Velveteen Rabbit (Feb)
Theater Festival (Feb)
How to Eat Like a Child (Mar)
The Magic Crane (Mar)
Alice in Wonderland (Apr-May)

Jack and the Beanstalk (Nov)
YES YES NO NO (Dec)
The Solace of Solstice
Apogee/Perigee
Bestial/Celestial
Holiday Show (Dec)
The Magic Island (Jan-Mar)
1st Annual Young Playwrights Contest: The Rise of FTR

James and the Giant Peach (Oct-Nov)
A Christmas Carol (Dec)
Really Rosie (Mar)
2nd Annual Young Playwrights Contest (May):
The Most Beautiful Color Green
Lobster Stew

Pinocchio (Oct-Nov)
Rootabaga Stories (Young People's Theater Project) (Dec)
The Revenge of the Space Pandas or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock (Feb)
3rd Annual Young Playwrights Contest (May):

• Kabidubi-du-da Du-da-day
• Julie XVIII

The Light Princess (Oct-Nov)
What a Cat!(Jan)
Greek Myths and Fables (Mar)
4th Annual Young Playwrights Contest (May):

• Elevator
• Grandmother's Smile
• Ralph and the Raccoons
• Maine Summer Dramatic Festival

Cool Cat, Nice Shoes! (Oct-Nov)
The Children's Theater Holiday Show (Dec)
Tuck Everlasting (Mar)
5th Annual Young Playwrights Contest (May):

• Are You a Bee?
• Mural and Milagros

The Emporer's New Clothes (Oct-Nov)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Dec)
Holiday Caroling
Fahrenheit 451(Mar)
6th Annual Young Playwrights Contest:
Shakespeare in Deering Oaks Park

Cinderella (Oct-Nov)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Dec)
Stone Soup (Mar)
7th Annual Young Playwrights Contest

Mother Hicks (Oct-Nov)
Strega Nona (Nov)
Holiday Carolers
Amy K (Jan)
This is Not a Pipe Dream (Mar)
Rapunzel Repencilled (Apr)
8th Annual Young Playwrights Contest (May)
Shakespeare Project & Festival (Jun)
Maine Summer Dramatic Institute
Maine-I-Acts (1st Saturday of every month, Ô98-Õ99)

Maggie Magalita (15 Oct: Opening of Theater, 317 Marginal Way) Amazing Grace (Oct-Nov)
Operation Ollie (Nov-Dec)
Lord of the Flies (Jan-Feb)
9th Annual Young Playwrights Contest (Mar)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Apr)
The Diary of Anne Frank
Little House on the Prairie
Twelfth Night (Jan 2000)
Shakespeare Project & Festival - The Tempest (May)
Dragon Wings
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Jun)
Maine-I-Acts (1st Saturday of every month, Sep-May)

The Miracle Worker (Oct)
Black Elk Speaks (Nov)
The House at Pooh Corner (Dec)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Jan)
Queen Elizabeth (Feb)
Young Playwrights Contest (Mar)
The Jungle Book (Mar-Apr)
Island of Blue Dolphins (Apr)
The Little Prince (May-Jun)
10th Annual Young Playwrights Contest
Maine Summer Dramatic Institute : Shakespeare in Deering Oaks Park (Aug 2-12)
(King Lear)

Little Women (Oct)
The Wrestling Season (Nov)
The Velveteen Rabbit (Dec)
Young Playwrights Contest (Jan)
Teen Playwrights Contest (Jan)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Feb-Mar)
Stop Pretending (Mar)
Bridge to Terabithia (Apr)
The Secret Garden (May-Jun)
My America (Jun)
The Shakespeare Festival

A Separate Peace (Oct) Stellaluna (Nov-Dec)
The Crucible (Jan)
Stuart Little (Feb-Mar)
Lion Hunting on Munjoy Hill (Mar-Apr)
Really Rosie (Apr)
A Midsummer NightÕs Dream (Apr)
Les Acadiens (May)
Anne of Green Gables (Jul-Aug)
Maine Dramatic Institute:
The Maine-I-Acts (1st Saturday of every month, Sep-May)
The Shakespeare Project
The Schtick Kickers
The Musical Theater Ensemble - Really Rosie

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Oct-Nov)
Honk (Nov-Dec)
Romeo and Juliet (Jan)
Alice in Wonderland (Feb-Mar)
A Thousand Cranes (Apr)
Fairy Houses (Jun-Aug)
A Mid-Summer's Afternoon (Aug)[Fund Raising performance]
The Nightingale (toured Sep-May)
A Thousand Cranes (toured Apr-May)

We Were There, Too! (Oct)
The Nightingale (toured Oct-Apr)
Les Lutins : The Fantastical Tales of Papa Pelletier (toured Oct-Apr)
The Snowman (Nov-Dec)
Our Town (Jan)
Charlotte's Web (Feb-Mar)
Sunday Gold (Apr)
Seussical, The Musical (Jul-Aug)
A Mid-Summer's Afternoon (Aug)

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Oct)
Go, Dog, Go (Nov-Dec)
Saint Joan (Jan)
Junie B. Jones & A Little Monkey Business (Feb-Mar)
Miss Nelson is Missing (Feb-Mar)
Prodigy in Partnership with the Portland Symphony Orchestra (Mar-May)
Masque of Beauty and the Beast (May)
Student Showcase
Madeline's Rescue (Jul-Aug)

For plays from 1934 to 1970 please click here.