Cold Comfort Theater

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12/08/2020

Please join our community for a service of celebration and thanksgiving for the life of Peter Clain November 9, 1948 - December 4, 2020 December 8, 2020 4:00 pm, Mérida time (CST) You are most welcom

06/12/2020

There’s nothing more stressful than clothing the top half of your body for a Zoom meeting. Fortunately, bonfire still carries our sweatshirts and tees! Appropriate for any occasion, and especially for our upcoming virtual reading and discussion group around Rachel Lynett’s ‘Good Bad People’!

Take advantage of this first mini-shipment of long-awaited Cold Comfort t-shirts!. Cold Comfort is a theater company located in Belfast, Maine, dedicated to providing...

05/04/2020

Congratulations to playwright Will Arbery on his 2020 Pulitzer Prize Nomination! We hosted our ‘Reading Plays Together’ discussion group around this piece in January at Carver Memorial Library.

Who thinks it’s time to do a virtual read-through of the Pulitzer Prize winner for 2020, ‘A Strange Loop’ by Michael R. Jackson?

03/11/2020

Hal Cohen is a writer, actor, sometimes director, and full-time internal medicine physician who lives, plays, and practices in Southern Maine. His plays have been performed mostly in and around the theaters of Portland, Maine, with some performances in NYC as well. The idea for ‘Asymptote’ came to Hal as he and his partner, Amanda were walking through a botanical garden in the Cayman Islands.

03/09/2020

Excited to welcome Adam Fell to our Festival in May! 🤩

03/06/2020

Joe Swenson is extremely excited about the opportunity to see a staged reading of one of his recent plays with audience members from all over the mid-coast. Belfast has a special place in his heart for many reasons. The first play he acted in, in the state of Maine, was in Belfast and he did it again and again. He lived in Belfast for 9+ years and performed in 10 Belfast Maskers productions from 2001 to 2006. Joe is a published author and has written, directed, produced, and acted in over 100 theatrical productions since moving to Maine in 1998.

03/05/2020

We are thrilled to be able to announce that Robert J. LeBlanc will be joining us for the second year as part of our Festival of Short Plays after bringing us ‘Familiar’ in 2019.

Robert J. LeBlanc has been performing and writing since the 90s. He is an award-winning playwright, an improviser, actor, graphic designer, artist, and owner of Sleuths Mystery Entertainment. His plays have been produced coast to coast including off-Broadway, Los Angeles, and across the country.

03/01/2020

Belfast Co-op owners can join us today at the Annual Meeting in voting for the next year’s Common Sense recipients!

Today, Cold Comfort and Midcoast Actors Studio will be teaming up so that when you vote for one of us, you’re voting for both of us. Your vote will support two Waldo County theater companies and help support the wide variety of programming we each do.

02/16/2020

Thank you to all who supported the run of ‘To Fall in Love’ by Jennifer Lane and a HUGE thank you to Andy at Cross Street Photography for capturing our performance at Carver Memorial Library in Searsport.

Now we’re hunkering down to read through all the submissions for our Festival of Short Plays coming up at the UMaine Hutchinson Center May 22 and 23!

02/14/2020

Thank you to Searsmont Town Library for hosting our last performance of ‘To Fall in Love’ by Jennifer Lane! We had a fabulous time visiting some of Waldo County’s finest (and tiniest) libraries and bringing theater across MidCoast Maine!