BATH — The Chocolate Church Arts Center will celebrate mud season with a sense of humor and magic. Vandini the Magician will reinforce that school break is a magical time with his show at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 23. The following Monday will bring spontaneous humor when Mainely Improv invites audience participation during their […]

BATH — Local musicians will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, as part of The Native Are Restless concert at the Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St. Each group or individual will perform several songs and then provide complete instrumentation and backing harmonies to each other’s songs. The genesis of this […]

100 years ago, 1916Oxford County, the stronghold of the Progressives in Western Maine, is opposed to a third ticket in Maine. Representative Progressives from this county and members of the delegation who attended the Progressive State convention at Bangor, yesterday, were defeated in an attempt to secure a vote for a coalition in Maine provided […]

FARMINGTON —The University of Maine at Farmington Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is hosting  a reading by Arielle Greenberg. Greenberg will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 14, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public.  Greenberg is the […]

Public reception is set for Friday, April 8, at 4 p.m. LEWISTON — The Bates College Museum of Art opens two spring exhibitions, one including serigraphs by noted artist David Driskell and the other of work by graduating studio art majors, with a public reception at 5 p.m. Friday, April 8, in the museum at the […]

Artworks by Marie DeForge will be displayed in the Art and Ale window at Gritty’s,  68 Main St., Auburn, for the month of April, according to L-A Arts. DeForge’s art career didn’t start until 2012,  after she began her path to becoming a holistic healer and teacher. This connection, she said, led her to begin having […]

STANDISH — Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” opens at the Schoolhouse Arts Center on Friday, April 8.  Performances of the play will be held on Fridays and Saturdays, at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., from April 8 thru 24. Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for students and seniors. “Brighton Beach Memoirs” is […]

The Edward Little High School Class of 2016 presents “Disney’s High School Musical,” the one act (an adaptation of the hit Disney movie), at Walton Elementary School on Friday and Saturday, April 8 & 9 at at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door. The story begins at a New Year’s Eve party where Troy, […]

100 years ago, 1916The Androscoggin above the dam is cleared of ice as the field extended. The amount of water coming over the falls is large, but it would take a rise of many feet to bring it over the top of the big rock at the center. 50 years ago, 1966The regular weekly meeting […]

GARDINER — The Open Book Players are presenting the New England premiere performance of “Memorial … A Theatrical Oral History of Americans in Vietnam” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 10, at Johnson Hall in Gardiner. This powerful, reflective piece begins at the Vietnam War Memorial and, in a […]