{"id":26529,"date":"2026-06-18T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26529"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:57:00","slug":"maine-spirits-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/maine-spirits-in-manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Spirits in Manhattan"},"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;\" title=\"Summerguide 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColorFullscreen=&amp;d=summerguide_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=184&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 allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">The Devil loves Moxie. And in the heart of New York, you\u2019ll find us everywhere.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">by Gwen Thompson<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You can take the girl out of Maine, but Maine follows wherever life lands you. When a Mainer lights up the stage in New York, the diaspora stirs. This past winter, that beacon was Portland\u2019s own Andrea Martin, stepping into <i>High Spirits<\/i>, No\u00ebl Coward\u2019s <i>Blithe Spirit <\/i>reincarnated as a musical. Though Martin\u2019s run at City Center will be long over by the time you read this, her performance has the staying power of a postcard from home\u2014a reminder that Mainers find each other, even 1,400 seats up in Midtown.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/High_Spirits_0005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/High_Spirits_0005.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/High_Spirits_0005-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/High_Spirits_0005-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Devil loves Moxie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26531,"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":[1509],"class_list":["post-26529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-summerguide-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529","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=26529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26532,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions\/26532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}