Bringing Broadway Home
worth the drive
Mainers needn’t travel to NYC to experience the best in theatre.
For nearly a century, Portland Ovations has brought extraordinary artists to Maine. In the 1930s, our earliest seasons featured classical musicians who filled Portland’s halls with virtuosity and wonder. It was not until the 1990s that National Tours of Broadway musicals became part of our annual programming.
We Are Water
“In 2020, we heard from the Portland Public Schools that they wanted to teach Wabanaki curriculum in partnership with us,” recalls Aimée Petrin, Executive and Artistic Director of Portland Ovations.
She knew exactly who she could talk to: Chris Newell, a citizen of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township and former director of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, which preserves and celebrates the heritage of the four Native communities in Maine.
From that call, Wabanaki Stories was born.