RANGELEY — The 34th annual Rangeley Friends of the Arts show “Art in August” will be held Thursday, Aug. 7. A call for entries has been announced and entries must be received by April 18. Prizes will be awarded in both the fine art and the fine craft categories. Three cash prizes and one non-cash […]

” ” is a one act play set in a 1955 Chicago newspaper office, with a murder to solve, aliens and a trailer park. The one-act play will be performed at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at Spruce Mountain High School in Jay.

AUBURN — Laughter will be served as some of New England’s best stand-up comedians will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, March 21, 15 Narals Restaurant. Lewiston comedian Mark Turcotte will host , Paul Hunt, Mike Levinsky and Kevin Neales. General admission tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the door. Narals is at 34 […]

LEWISTON — The Gospelaires, a gospel ensemble comprised of members of the Bates College and greater Lewiston-Auburn communities, will host a concert featuring several guest artists at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at the Peter J. Gomes Chapel at Bates, 275 College St. Titled “Celebrating God’s Gifts,” the concert will feature singers from Bowdoin College, […]

The Broadway hit “Good People” will open Friday, March 14, at The Public Theatre, 31 Maple St., Lewiston. This humor-filled drama and recent Tony Award-nominee for Best Play is a wicked smart, funny and powerful story that asks whether it is luck, choice or hard work that creates our success in life. runs March 14-16, […]

MONMOUTH — The Augusta Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Domenico Cimarosa, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and A Lincoln Portrait at 7:30 PM Saturday, March 22, in Monmouth’s beautiful Cumston Hall. In addition to featuring a variety of musical masterpieces spanning three centuries, the ASO will […]

PORTLAND — Handel and Haydn Society’s Portland Ovations concert will feature electrifying concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky who leads her fellow string players in a chamber program of baroque and classical works by George Fredric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Felix Mendelssohn. Approaching its bicentennial in 2015, the Handel and Haydn Society […]

The cast and crew include the following actors: Zachary Fisher, Kayla Gayton, Cassidy Stevens, Kitaira Harvey, Emma Weissenfels, Joseph McGeoghegan, Hayden Rodrigue, and Kyle Severance; and crew: Katelyn Cloutier, Kasey Doyle, Jacob Kupfer, Jeremy Pellegrini, Brittany Bays, and MaKenzie LeBlanc. The play was directed by Lucy Rioux, assisted by Laura Eldridge and David Maher. The […]

The concerts are free and open to the public, but tickets are required, available at bit.ly/oacbates. For more information, contact 207-786-6163 or olinarts@bates.edu. The choir will sing Haydn’s “Missa in Angustiis,” better known as the “Lord Nelson Mass,” and “Missa Brevis for the Virgin of Guadalupe,” a piece by Scott Ordway, conductor of the Bates […]

AUGUSTA — Lithgow Public Library will showcase some of the area’s talented artists with two evenings of poetry and music on Thursdays in March and April. The programs will be held in the Reading Room and are free and open to the public. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, poets Carolyn Gelland and Chandler Kanozak […]