Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Poetry contest, open to Falmouth-area poets, $1,000 grand prize, July 31 deadline, freecontest.com. Casting call for Portland area high school students, for educational media campaign, email fmi: marena@soapboxnoise.com. Books & Authors Wednesday 7/11 “Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control” by Medea Benjamin, 6:30 p.m., University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth […]

Music festivals and concerts abound throughout the Maine summer, and a bumper crop in a variety of styles is coming up soon. The Saltwater Celtic Music Festival runs July 14-15 in Brunswick. The promoters bill it as New England’s most important Celtic musical event of the summer. In Harrison, the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival opens […]

Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Poetry contest, open to Falmouth-area poets, $1,000 grand prize, July 31 deadline, www.freecontest.com. Monday 7/9 “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” 6 p.m., Portland Players, 420 Cottage Road, South Portland, 650-3346. Tuesday 7/10 “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” 6 p.m., Portland Players, 420 Cottage Road, South Portland, 650-3346. Books & […]

The majority of new Broadway musicals in recent years have been stage adaptations of successful movies. That’s the case with the two most recent musicals to open in southern Maine. Omigod, America’s archetypal Valley Girl, Elle Woods, is like totally morphing from fashion butterfly to legal eagle. That’s the story of “Legally Blonde,” currently running […]

Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Saturday 6/30 Casting call for feature film “Blue Potato,” 9 a.m.-5 p.m., come prepared with photo, Abromson Center, USM, 88 Bedford St., 974-4163. Books & Authors Wednesday 6/27 “August Game: A Father and Daughter’s Journey into the Storm” by Barbara Walsh, 6 p.m., Prince Memorial Library, 266 Maine St., Cumberland, […]

Maine’s biggest classical music festival swings into high gear next week with one of the world’s superstar violinists topping the bill: Midori plays two concerts, July 1-2, at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick. Hot Tuna, the long-running duo comprising Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady – two members of the legendary Jefferson Airplane rock band […]

Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Mad Horse Theater Company needs crafters and other vendors for the 2nd Annual Family Fun Day on June 23 at Hutchins School, 24 Mosher St., South Portland. Cost for a table is $25. For more information call 730-2389 or madhorse.com. Sunday 6/24 Freeport Players auditioning roles for men and women […]

American folk singer Woody Guthrie was born a century ago in Oklahoma, but the geographic span of his music ranged from California and the Pacific Northwest to the East Coast. Guthrie sang about common people, and his dozens of popular tunes have left a lasting mark on our culture. This Friday Guthrie’s 100th birth anniversary […]