The Maine State Music Theatre is a performing arts organization based in Brunswick, Maine, United States. It was founded in 1959 by Victoria Crandall as the Brunswick Music Theatre. The theatre became a non-profit in 1970 focusing its commitment to develop and expand an internship program that would educate and train young artists in theatre crafts. In 1988, Brunswick Music Theatre celebrated 30 years of bringing professional musical theatre to the people of Maine. Governor John R. McKernan presented an award to founder Crandall citing her for this significant achievement. In that year the name changed to Maine State Music Theatre to reflect a patronage which had grown significantly beyond the mid-coast region. By the late ’80s the number of Equity theatres in the state had dwindled to half what had existed in the early ’60s.