ENCORE PERFORMANCE!

Conceived, written, and directed by Brent Hutchins.

A Downeast romp through some of the Bard's best bits, with some original contrastin' Maine tragicomedy

AT HARBOR PARK

Gordon Thomas Ward

• Free Admission

• Bring Your Chair

Presented by The Grand & Sponsored by The City of Ellsworth

Conceived, written, and directed by Brent Hutchins.

A Downeast romp through some of the Bard's best bits, with some original contrastin' Maine tragicomedy

Performances at Knowlton Park July 18-20

Conceived, written, and directed by Brent Hutchins.

A Downeast romp through some of the Bard's best bits, with some original contrastin' Maine tragicomedy

Performances at Knowlton Park July 18-20

AT HARBOR PARK

Crossroads Band

• Free Admission

• Bring Your Chair

Presented by The Grand & Sponsored by The City of Ellsworth

July 10-12

2025 Summer Camp presents: SHREK JR

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

• Thursday & Friday, 6:00pm

• Saturday, 11:00am

Directed by Sara Phillips

Beauty is in the eye of the ogre in Shrek The Musical JR., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical.  It's a "big bright beautiful world" as everyone's favorite ogre, Shrek, leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance.  Part romance and part twisted fairy tale, Shrek JR. is an irreverently fun show with a powerful message for the whole family.

$10 Adults, $5 Youth (12&under) General Admission

AT HARBOR PARK

CHRIS ROSS

• Free Admission

• Bring Your Chair

Presented by The Grand & Sponsored by The City of Ellsworth

July 10-12

2025 Summer Camp presents: SHREK JR

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

• Thursday & Friday, 6:00pm

• Saturday, 11:00am

Directed by Sara Phillips

Beauty is in the eye of the ogre in Shrek The Musical JR., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical.  It's a "big bright beautiful world" as everyone's favorite ogre, Shrek, leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance.  Part romance and part twisted fairy tale, Shrek JR. is an irreverently fun show with a powerful message for the whole family.

$10 Adults, $5 Youth (12&under) General Admission

July 10-12

2025 Summer Camp presents: SHREK JR

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

• Thursday & Friday, 6:00pm

• Saturday, 11:00am

Directed by Sara Phillips

Beauty is in the eye of the ogre in Shrek The Musical JR., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical.  It's a "big bright beautiful world" as everyone's favorite ogre, Shrek, leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance.  Part romance and part twisted fairy tale, Shrek JR. is an irreverently fun show with a powerful message for the whole family.

$10 Adults, $5 Youth (12&under) General Admission

195th Army Band - At Knowlton Park

Performing for audiences around the world and in their own backyard in Maine, the 195th Army Band’s Concert Band is carrying on a proud tradition of military bands past and present by performing free patriotic public performances. The 195th Concert Band showcases a performance repertoire ranging from military marches to significant wind band works, Broadway medleys, and popular tunes, as well as featuring soloists from within the band and performing compositions by area composers and arrangers.

Free Admission. *Bring your own chair

Concession sales provided by The Grand

Movie starts at DUSK!

Despicable Me 4

Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.

PG 1 hr 34 min

• Free Admission, Bring Your Own Chair

• *Concession Sales provided by The Grand

Presented by The Grand & Sponsored by The City of Ellsworth

SHREK THE MUSICAL is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

• Co-Directed by Angel & Matt Hochman

• Music Direction & Choreography by Stephanie Bradshaw

Everyone's favorite ogre is back in the hilarious stage spectacle based on the Oscar-winning, smash hit film. "Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek...." And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you've got the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand... and his name is Shrek.

Sponsored by First National Bank

Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production. Two star mezzo-sopranos—Isabel Leonard and Aigul Akhmetshina—headline a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritones Davide Luciano and Andrey Zhilikhovsky star as Figaro, the infamous barber of Seville, with baritone Nicola Alaimo and bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts. 

ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. Derrick Inouye conducts two performances in May.

 ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 1 HRS 40 MINS

Live Music: JUL’IA

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

Friday, May 30th 7:00pm

Julia Gagnon is an up and coming artist known for her journey on the Emmy winning show American Idol in its 22nd season where she placed in the top 7. She takes the stage name JULIA in preparation for her new album, WILDFLOWERS, and album dedicated to planet earth. JULIA as well as her co-musician and writer Nate Haven both grew up on Maine’s great coast, something that inspired their writing way before the spotlight found them. They are so excited to be apart of this event and hope to spread the message of WILDFLOWERS before it’s even released!

$20 Advance, $25 At the Door General Admission

Live Theatre: One Morning In Maine

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

Friday, May 23rd 6:00pm

Directed by Nick Turner

The beloved children’s book classic – One Morning In Maine written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey jumps off the page to the stage. This is the premiere of a new adaptation with permission granted from the McCloskey estate.

$10 Adults, $5 Youth (12&under) General Admission

Sing-Along Film: WICKED

Friday, May 16th 7:00pm

Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences on her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. PG (2hr.41min.)

$10 General Admission

*Wear your best WICKED themed outfit

Live Theatre Auditions

Shakespeare in the Park: Downeast Shakes & Shenanigans

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

Sunday, May 11th 4:00pm & Tuesday, May 13th 6:00pm

Conceived, written, and directed by Brent Hutchins.

A Downeast romp through some of the Bard's best bits, with some original contrastin' Maine tragicomedy

*Performances at Knowlton Park July 18-20

Live Theatre Auditions

Shakespeare in the Park: Downeast Shakes & Shenanigans

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

Sunday, May 11th 4:00pm & Tuesday, May 13th 6:00pm

Conceived, written, and directed by Brent Hutchins.

A Downeast romp through some of the Bard's best bits, with some original contrastin' Maine tragicomedy

*Performances at Knowlton Park July 18-20

Lamoine Consolidated School presents Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates

On the Stanley Subaru Stage

Thursday, May 8th 12:30pm & 6:00pm

Ahoy Mateys! LCS is pleased to present Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates, Book by Martin A Follose, Music and Lyrics by Bill Francoeur, Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Englewood, Colorado. 

Shiver your timbers with this swashbuckling musical comedy! Captain Jennings' crew jumps ship, leaving him with only a handful of prisoners and Fergus, a sailor who can't swim, to protect his wealthy passengers from a pirate attack. Captain Bree and her lady pirates demand gold in exchange for the lives of the pretentious Madam Prescot, her nephew Samuel (who is masquerading as a girl to avoid becoming shark bait), and her niece Julia (that'll jump to join the lady pirates the first chance she gets...much to her aunt's dismay!). While waiting for a response from the English, the pirates entertain themselves by showing Julia the process of pirating, such as threatening prisoners with the plank. What's in store when a British fleet arrives, set on both hanging the pirates for their deeds and punishing Captain Jennings for not fighting them off more effectively? You'll have to join in on the high seas fun to find out!

$10 General Admission