Maine State Ballet chooses Michael Holden, 17, and Elise Bickford, 15, for the Nutcracker Prince and Clara.
Bob Keyes
Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
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• Maine State Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” returns to Merrill Auditorium in Portland with the largest cast of performers in the show’s history. Almost 300 dancers from Maine State Ballet and other dance schools will present seven performances beginning Saturday. “The Nutcracker” features live music by the Maine State Ballet Orchestra, the Musica de Filia Girlchoir […]
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Author Q&A: Brothers in yarns
Longtime friends Christopher Ayres and Stephen W. Hyde collaborate on a book of essays and photographs that’s a paean to rural Maine.
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Good news for Webbheads
A show at Bowdoin explores photographer Todd Webb’s work in New York and Paris at a defining time in his career.
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Musical chairs: Maestros Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley
On tour for their genre-crossing classical-pop CD ‘Shuffle.Play.Listen.’ will be at Merrill Auditorium on Friday.
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Classical musicians find themselves happily homeless
Janna Hymes and her Maine Pro Musica orchestra are always on the road, bringing classical music to the far, underserved corners of the state.
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Tanks for the memories
Glenn Renell and Joseph Nicoletti spent a year painting at each other’s homes. Now their exhibit at Greenhut includes depictions of the same scenes from their very individual perspectives.
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This week • Portland Stage Company hosts the 15th annual From Away festival of international playwriting at 7 p.m. Monday. From Away features the voices of international playwrights, whose work is excerpted and performed in translation. This year’s festival includes readings from the work of Pilar Quintana (Colombia), Josephine Rowe (Australia) and Jeremy Tiang (Singapore), […]
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Bold stroke by Acorn Productions
Acorn gets serious with its next production, the smoldering Edward Albee classic, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’