Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Books & Authors Wednesday 1/23 Brown Bag Lecture Series: Duane Robert Pierson, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700. Luis Montalvan book signing, 6-8 p.m., Planet Dog, 211 Marginal Way, Portland, 347-8606. Tuesday 1/29 Page to Stage: “Greater Tuna,” 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 […]

With the calendar approaching the end of January, the seasonal slowdown in the performing arts has pretty much ended, with most of southern Maine’s performers, producers and presenters returning to local stages with a variety of tip-top offerings. Portland Ovations returns with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center in a Jan. 25 show that’s […]

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158. Books & Authors Friday 1/18 “The Russian Coup and the Girl,” Kira von Korff, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700. Sunday 1/20 Meg Wolff book signing, 7 p.m., Longfellow […]

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158. Tuesday 1/15 The Portland Community Chorus will be holding auditions for its spring session.  The PCC is one of the largest community choruses in New England with more than 140 members.  To schedule […]

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave, Portland, 807-2158. Books & Authors Friday 1/11  Local Author Series: Norman Beaupre, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, ext. 723. Film  Wednesday 1/9 “Escape the Fire: The Fight to Rescue American […]

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Portland Children’s Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, April 4-7, 2013, open to students in kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding communities,  maximum duration of three minutes. This year’s theme is “connections.” Contest rules and entry forms are available on the festival website: […]

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Portland Children’s Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, April 4-7, 2013, open to students in kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding communities,  maximum duration of three minutes. This year’s theme is “connections.” Contest rules and entry forms are available on the festival website: […]

As the Christmas-New Year holiday period approaches, most performing artists do what everyone else does: Head home and take a break with the family. There’s a marked slowdown in the performing arts between Christmas and late January. So “Out & About” takes its annual four-week break, too, returning on Jan. 23. Before heading off to […]

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Portland Children’s Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, April 4-7, 2013, open to students in kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding communities,  maximum duration of three minutes. This year’s theme is “connections.” Contest rules and entry forms are available on the festival website: […]

Holiday A&E fare takes some unusual forms this week. Most intriguing is an original play, “The Legend of the Golem,” written by longtime Portland theater activist Michael Levine. The Golem is a benevolent monster-like creature who saved thousands of Jews in 16th-century Europe; in Levine’s tale he reawakens to save one doubting soul in the […]