PORTLAND – It was hard to determine who had more fun at the State Theatre on Tuesday night: the band or the crowd. The Goo Goo Dolls ripped the joint with 80 minutes of unpretentious power-punk and pure pop, and the audience — by appearances, mostly folks in their 40s — stood throughout and grooved […]
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: Irish by mirth
The American Irish Repertory Ensemble stages ‘The Seafarer,’ a bawdy, boozy, gut-busting romp.
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Concert review: Dolls dish pure joy
The Goo Goo Dolls ripped the State with 80 minutes of unpretentious power-punk and pop.
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Arts Planner
In concert • The Indigo Girls are back on the road and plan a tour stop in Portland on Saturday. The Georgia-bred and -based folk-rock duo will perform at 8 p.m. at Merrill Auditorium. Lucy Wainwright Roche opens. Saturday’s concert is part of the Return to Life benefit concert series, which in the past has […]
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Bob Keyes: Catching up with Konau, and other odds and ends
Britta Konau lost her job when the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport faced its financial meltdown last fall. But the curator has stayed active in the arts, and these days can be found popping in and out of galleries and museums across Maine. Always gifted with words, Konau is writing an arts blog […]
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On her own two feet
Long known for her artistry in toe shoes, Nell Shipman is branching out, taking a promotion at Portland Ballet and creating an ambitious original dance (just in time for Halloween).
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Arts Dispatches
AUGUSTA Project wins national award for ‘imaginative learning’ Maine’s Imagination Intensive Communities project was one of nine projects in the United States to receive a Best Practice award from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills at a national summit in Washington, D.C. The Maine project is a process developed by the Maine Alliance for Arts […]
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Book Review: The dish ran away with a spoon
In a romantic crisis, the heroine in Melissa Senate’s new book returns home to Maine and takes over her grandmother’s island cooking school.
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PSO to take note of young talent in central Maine
The next Dizzy Gillespie may well be sitting in the music class at Hall-Dale Elementary School in Hallowell. If so, the Portland Symphony Orchestra wants to help the star-in-waiting find his place behind the mouthpiece. The orchestra is sending its brass section to central Maine next week to perform concerts with students in Cynthia McGuire’s […]
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Art and Theater: Pull up a chair
Good seats available at the new show at Bowdoin.