Portland Ovations’ new season also includes Yo-Yo Ma and free performances across downtown.
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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Former chair for humanities William ‘Bro’ Adams says he’ll be an advocate
As changes began at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Falmouth man and former Colby College president said ‘now was a reasonable time’ to step away.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Broadway at Ogunquit Playhouse, Maine State Music Theatre
Encouraged by eager audiences, Maine’s largest summer theaters are upping the ante this season with a run of splashy productions worthy of the Great White Way.
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The Telling Room hires a new executive director
Celine Kuhn had served for the past year as interim director.
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Anthony Doerr, author of ‘All the Light We Cannot See,’ returns to Maine for 2 events
The novelist won the Pulitzer Prize for ‘All the Light You Cannot See.’
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Feature obituary: Janice Beth Reale, 57, community volunteer, photographer and writer from Cape Elizabeth
She worked to preserve town history and the memories of its older citizens.
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Ogunquit opens its season with an exhibition of Dahlov Ipcar’s early work
In his first season, the museum’s new director gets an introduction to icons of Maine art.
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Turbulent drama about cultural identity opens Friday at Portland Stage
The theater company gives the audience time to talk about difficult issues raised in the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Disgraced.’
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A century after its congregation dissolved, Abyssinian Meeting House gathers community again
‘A Distant Holla,’ an art show opening Friday, aims to bring the original ‘spirit of life’ back to the spiritual site of black culture.
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Portland composer fulfills dream, hits home run with baseball opera
Daniel Sonenberg’s ‘The Summer King’ premieres in Pittsburgh, where Negro League star Josh Gibson played before dying a tragic hero.