• What would have happened had the Wright Brothers failed? Would we drive to Florida for spring training? Take a boat to Europe or a balloon around the world? A whimsical new play at Portland Stage Company ponders that question in a flight of fantasy. “The Center of Gravity, or the Disinvention of the Airplane” […]
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: Opening Act
You can catch the Dramatic Repertory Company during the run of its first show, the spellbinding ‘Blue/Orange.’
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‘Whoopie Pie’ writer strikes while icon is hot
A Portland playwright gains attention now that one of his song subjects is courting fame.
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Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Portland Stage names new managing director Portland Stage Company has announced the hiring of Jon J. Wojciechowski Jr. as managing director. He begins on Monday. Wojciechowski brings considerable professional experience in marketing and development with nonprofit organizations and with hospital and health care systems in Maine and New York. His most recent positions were […]
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Arts Planner
• Lucid Stage on Baxter Boulevard in Portland marks Black History Month on Friday with “Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist and Other Conversations of Color: A Celebration of African American History.” The evening includes music, a play and a visual arts exhibition. It begins, as good things often do, with music. Mehuman Jonson will perform […]
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In the world of opera, this man rocks
‘The heartbeat’ of PORTopera since he helped launch it in 1994, Jack Riddle is being honored for his efforts in a big way — in the Big Apple.
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Art and Theater: Two Divine
One Bowdoin exhibit is a serious look at medieval religious practices, the other a zany take on the Bible a la R. Crumb.
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Lyric theater takes a new risk with provocative rock musical
Lyric Music Theater is known for taking risks. “Jekyll & Hyde,” “Titanic,” “Aida” and other contemporary musicals received early attention at Lyric, which routinely presents shows that are new on the community theater circuit but not necessarily proven box-office hits. “Rent” is something different altogether. “It’s probably the most progressive show that the theater has […]
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Photographer wins Maine in America award
Paul Caponigro of Cushing will receive the Farnsworth Art Museum’s award in June.
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Behind the really bad poetry, a big heart
PORTLAND – Sir William Topaz McGonagall was a lost, wonderful soul. A Scotsman, he lived from 1825 to 1902, and went down in history as one of the worst poets of his time — or any time, for that matter. The American playwright Willy Holtzman has been interested in McGonagall since he spent time in […]