Bob Keyes

Staff Writer

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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Published
April 11, 2010

‘Mary’s Wedding’ is emotionally charged

PORTLAND — “Mary’s Wedding,” the emotionally charged drama that opened over the weekend at Portland Stage Company, tells a heartbreaking story of love and loss on the Canadian prairie. It’s a two-actor play featuring Annie Purcell and Todd Lawson. Purcell plays Mary Chalmers, who is left behind in her quiet prairie town while her beau, […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND ‘Mary’s Wedding’ opens Portland Stage’s full season With the opening of “Mary’s Wedding” this week, Portland Stage Company announced the lineup for its 2010-11 performance season. The season opens Sept. 28 with a production of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps,” adapted by Patrick Barlow. On Nov. 2, the theater will stage “Last Gas,” a […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • The Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick on Thursday opens “Methods for Modernism: Form and Color in American Art, 1900-1925.” The exhibition examines American encounters with and participation within European modernism. It opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Thursday and will remain on view through July 3. Regular museum hours […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Keyes: Charting a course in business, life

It’s no secret that the creative economy is humming in Portland. We see evidence of it everywhere, almost literally on every block in and around the peninsula. Whether it’s the artisans at Green Design Furniture on Commercial Street, the designers at Angela Adams on Congress Street or the many printmakers toiling away behind closed doors […]
Published
April 4, 2010

THAT ’70S SHOW

A new photography exhibition offers a look back at a very different Portland
Published
April 1, 2010

Road warriors

Tea Leaf Green brings its forever tour to Port City Music Hall on Friday.
Published
March 28, 2010

Abstraction’s Lynch-pin

Fred Lynch’s art follows a geometric progression … in a random kind of way.
Published
March 28, 2010

Arts Dispatches

YORK Russian icon maker offers workshop on icon painting Marina Forbes, a Russian icon maker, teacher and lecturer, will offer a workshop, “The Art of Icon Painting,” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for four Tuesdays beginning this week at the York Art Association, 393 York St. It is a hands-on studio workshop for students […]
Published
March 28, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • On Thursday, June Fitzpartrick Gallery at Maine College of Art opens an exhibition of work created at Vinalhaven Press from 1984 to 2002. In addition to prints made at the press, the “Vinalhaven Press” exhibition will include development work, proofs and drawings. Patricia Nick founded and directed the island press, and hosted […]
Published
March 28, 2010

Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ for the keep-it-local set

PORTLAND — When we hear “Buy Local,” our first thought runs toward the local merchants in the Old Port or across the harbor to Knightville in South Portland — or any other community with an active retail hub. Why can’t “Buy Local” also extend to our arts communities? In truth, anybody who buys a ticket […]