{"id":22131,"date":"2022-09-21T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22131"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:54:58","slug":"the-curtain-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-curtain-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curtain Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23ededed&amp;d=final_oct22_flipbook_-_reduced&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=24&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Another Op\u2019nin\u2019, Another Show<\/h2>\n<p><b>By Gwen Thompson<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he show must go on, and one way or another it did. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve emerged from the pandemic with a new appreciation for virtual performances (\u201cLove the One You&#8217;re With,\u201d right?) and the hope that live and on-demand streaming will continue to make theater more accessible to those unable to attend in person. Yet there\u2019s no business like show business, and nothing like live theater. If that lump in your throat when the house lights go down melts into tears of joy to be back in the audience at last, you\u2019re not alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a sampling of what\u2019s on the boards in Maine this season\u00ad\u2014see our Theater Listings on p. 66 for much more!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/curtain-rises.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/curtain-rises.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/curtain-rises-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/curtain-rises-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/curtain-rises-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/curtain-rises-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/curtain-rises-620x324.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Op\u2019nin\u2019, Another Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1207],"class_list":["post-22131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-october-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22181,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22131\/revisions\/22181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}