A new documentary from Portland filmmaker Huey explores the life and jazz of pianist Marian McPartland.
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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Art and Theater: Black and light
Mad Horse opens its season with the black comedy ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore.’
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‘My Mother’s Clothes’ covers lots of emotional ground
PORTLAND – Portland writer Elizabeth Peavey returns to the stage for an encore of her one-woman performance “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother.” Peavey, an essayist and educator, wrote the piece after sorting through the belongings of her mother, Shirley, following her death in May 2009. She debuted the piece in August, selling out […]
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Arts Planner
• In Gorham, the University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre presents “A View from the Bridge” by Arthur Miller, one of the great plays of American theater. Thomas Power directs. The play, which opens Friday and runs through Oct. 16 at Russell Hall, focuses on Brooklynite Eddie Carbone, who dives into a pit of […]
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For openers . . .
Conductor Robert Moody likens the Portland Symphony’s first concerts of the 2011-12 season – featuring pianist Awadagin Pratt – to a ‘great, gratifying, electric’ journey.
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Bob Keyes: Somewhere, the gallery gods are smiling
PORTLAND — Matt Welch understands that the economy is not well. Especially as it relates to the arts, the sluggish economy poses the single greatest challenge to visual artists and the galleries that represent them. But Welch isn’t interested in wallowing in the fear that’s associated with these difficult times. “Sometimes you get to the […]
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Small town, growing film festival
The Camden event has earned a reputation as a go-to gathering in the documentary film world.
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Art and Theater: Beautiful Music
Portland Stage prepares to open ‘The Morini Strad,’ about the unlikely friendship between an aging musician and the craftsman repairing her valuable old violin.
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Screen star Cuomo laughs off long line of heels in ‘Bad Dates’
The one-act, 90-minute comedy begins the 10th anniversary season for the Good Theater.
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Ground breaking
A glittering expansion of the Colby College Museum of Art will diverge dramatically from the school’s ancestral brick architecture to cast its world-class collections in a new — and natural — light.