Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Durham Community School PTA,  seeking crafters, business owners for a fair on Nov. 19 at the Durham Community School Gymnasium, 654 Hallowell Road, $20 for 8-foot table, proceeds support field trip funding, FMI, Nancy Decker at orc95@comcast.net, 751-1323 or Laurel Gervais at lgervais@maine.rr.com. Freeport Historical Society seeking 6-8 actors […]

Good Theater’s “Bad Dates” is really, really good. That’s the executive summary of the opening production of this professional company’s 2011-2012 season. Theresa Rebeck’s script is thoughtful and funny, and actress Dana Cuomo infuses its Maine premiere with warmth and wit. Portland Symphony Orchestra swings into Pops mode for the first time this season on […]

The annual September slowdown in the performing arts is coming to an end as the fall-winter-spring seasons for several of our area’s producers begins. Lyric Music Theater began its 2011-2012 program year only a few hours after the autumnal equinox with “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” a delightfully light and frothy Broadway tuner that’s based on the […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Durham Community School PTA,  seeking crafters, business owners for a fair to be held on Nov. 19 at the Durham Community School Gymnasium, 654 Hallowell Road, $20 for 8-foot table, proceeds support field trip funding, FMI, Nancy Decker at orc95@comcast.net, 751-1323 or Laurel Gervais at lgervais@maine.rr.com. Freeport Historical Society […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Friday 9/23 Yarmouth Art Festival Call for entries, Friday, Sept. 23 deadline for Yarmouth Art Festival juried show, submissions in painting, sculpture, photography, etching and digital media welcome from any Maine artist 18 and older, $15 fee for first submission, $10 for second, $5 additional submissions, FMI, yarmouthartfestival.com. Books, […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Saturday 9/17 Mad Horse Theatre Company, call for crafters for Family Fun Day on Saturday, Sept. 17, $25 participation fee, held at the Hutchins School, 24 Mosher St., South Portland, Christine Marshall, 415-3721, madhorse.com. Books, Authors Wednesday 9/14 Brown Bag Lectures, with Liza Bakewell, author of “Madre,” 12 p.m., […]

Hurricane Irene has blown away into the history books, and Maine’s summer season of arts and entertainment is about to follow. This weekend’s grand finale is topped by one of the summer’s biggest events, the Sept. 2-4 revival of the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick. After a 30-year run, Maine’s biggest bluegrass event […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Wednesday 8/31 Musica de Filia’s Fall 2011 Auditions, 6 p.m. Wednesday, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, Musica de Filia studio, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, call Cyndy for appointment, 807-2158, musicadefilia.com. Saturday 9/3 Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, auditions for fall shows, “The Jungle Book,” “Youth Voices on […]

August is winding down, and summer vacations will soon end for some kids. And Maine’s vibrant summer arts and entertainment schedule is slowly winding down, too. But the slowdown has a measured pace, and there’s still a flurry of final summer activities over the next couple of weeks, including visits by two major musical touring […]