Article: The curtain also rises New artistic director Levy at helm as Penobscot Theatre Company opens season

If you wandered into the Bangor Opera House earlier this week, you could easily get the impression that nothing has changed for the resident Penobscot Theatre Company. It was typical pre-opening night activity. The lobby was vacant, but a carpenter and electrician were working busily onstage. In an attic loft flanked by rails of costumes, actors were rehearsing the season's inaugural show "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," which opens in a week. The 90-minute work is a comedy written by Steve Martin, the stand-up comedian and actor. So the story is very funny. The actors, who were still struggling with memorizing their lines, were making it funnier with their extemporaneous stumblings. The ...

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