PORTLAND — Good Theater will kick off its 12th season with the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris, playing October 2-27, at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street. “Clybourne Park” was written in response to Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning play “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959). It portrays fictional events […]

GORHAM —  Bolts. Screws. Plastic. Pianist Bridget Convey will spend about five hours meticulously placing those items, along with nuts, an eraser and pieces of rubber, between the strings of the concert piano at University of Southern Maine Corthell Concert Hall before her concert on Friday, Sept. 20. Those aren’t items that an audience typically […]

“To the Ends of the Earth … and Back: Selections from the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection” opens at 6 p.m. with a curator’s lecture provided by Arthur Dunkelman, director of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation in Miami Lakes, Florida. The free, public lecture will take place in USM’s Sam L. Cohen Educational Center of […]

Blaize Nolynne, the 25-year-old Maine author of “The Captain’s Last Year, Fighting the Fire and Cancer: One Year to Live” asks the question: “What would you do with only one year to live?” Her short story focuses on that question and shows the reality of cancer and how no one is ever prepared to answer […]

On Friday, Sept. 27, this classic American band arrives in Maine, for one performance only, appearing at the Opera House. Neumann fully embraces that notion on American Made, the BoDeans’ 11th album, released in 2012. Its dozen songs are laced through with strands of indigenous roots elements — Heartland hoedown folk (“American,” with guest Jake […]

Teachers Lounge Mafia has been enjoying energetic audiences across central and western Maine throughout the summer. Let yourself be entertained by a quartet of comic actors who create an entire world of goofy characters and madcap situations from just a few simple audience-provided ideas. This event promises to be a great night of mature-content comedy. […]

The show will open with the energetic Dukas’ “Fanfare” from “La Peri” featuring the entire brass section in a non-traditional position at the front of the stage. Though “Fanfare” has no thematic relationship to “La Peri,” its grandeur and liveliness have allowed it to stand on its own, and it is often performed as a […]

Concerts will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, at Oxford Hills High School, 256 S. Main St., S. Paris; and at East Point Christian Church at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at 58 City Line Dr., Portland. Concert goers will experience an uplifting, exciting and vibrant show by beautiful and talented performers from Uganda. […]

Performing in “Arsenic and Old Lace” are Austin Loukas (Mortimer) and Jordan Holmes (Elaine) at Schoolhouse Arts Center from Sept. 20 through Oct. 6. STANDISH — Schoolhouse Arts Center at Sebago Lake will present “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Joseph Kesselring. The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic […]

FRYEBURG — The 32 running short film exhibition and touring show will return to The Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, for an amazing night of films. This acclaimed touring program of international award-winning short films is presented by Asbury Shorts New York. The Asbury Short Film “Concert” combines […]