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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PublishedApril 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, […]
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PublishedApril 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 […]
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PublishedApril 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 […]
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PublishedApril 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 […]
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PublishedApril 4, 2010
THAT ’70S SHOW
A new photography exhibition offers a look back at a very different Portland
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PublishedApril 1, 2010
Road warriors
Tea Leaf Green brings its forever tour to Port City Music Hall on Friday.
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PublishedMarch 28, 2010
Abstraction’s Lynch-pin
Fred Lynch’s art follows a geometric progression … in a random kind of way.
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PublishedMarch 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 […]
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PublishedMarch 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 […]
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PublishedMarch 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 […]
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