Spring flowers have blossomed, the leaves are mostly out and the grass is green. That seasonal change also signals the end of the fall-winter-spring seasons for many of southern Maine’s arts producers and presenters. This week is especially rich in season-ending shows. The Public Theatre of Lewiston-Auburn is running its final play of 2010-2011: a […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Sunday 5/15 Vivid Motion Dance Auditions, for summer production “Sleeping Beauty,” 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Warren Memorial Library, 479 Main St., Westbrook, no formal preparation needed, audition in class-style format, for all skill levels, for Portland show July 15-17, at Lucid Stage in Portland, vividmotion.org.  Tuesday 5/17 Musica de Filia […]

Two big concerts are slated for this Saturday in Portland. One is a long-established showcase and fundraiser, while the other is a national touring act that’s just launching. Best-known is the annual “Best of Broadway” revue in Merrill Auditorium. An ensemble of local singers and a dozen-plus dancers from southern Maine’s musical theater community will […]

If you enjoy lighthouse vistas, bird watching, beach combing, and the sounds and sights of the open sea we have just the place for you: Potts Point Preserve in Harpswell. This two-acre preserve sits at the very tip of Harpswell Neck and is surrounded by water. Drive south on Route 123 from Brunswick to the […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Sunday 5/15 Vivid Motion Dance Company Auditions,  for summer production “Sleeping Beauty,” 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Warren Memorial Library, 479 Main St., Westbrook, no formal preparation needed, audition in class-style format, for all skill levels, for Portland show July 15-17, at Lucid Stage in Portland, vividmotion.org. Books, Authors Thursday 5/5 […]

YARMOUTH — The second Yarmouth Contemporary Music Festival will open Friday with a performance of electroacoustic music and musique concrete at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church on Gilman Road. It will continue Saturday evening with “Ten by Ten,” a concert of 10 works by 10 contemporary composers. The performances are organized by the Pytheas Center for […]

Choral Art Society takes on the bluegrass Mass PORTLAND — Those familiar with traditional classical Mass may think them heavy with religious tradition, a genre filled with the liturgical devotion of long-dead, white-wigged male composers. But a bluegrass Mass? That’s “a horse of a different color.” That, according to Choral Art Society Music Director Robert […]

April showers bring a spate of music and musical theater to Portland and South Portland this weekend. Let’s start south of the harbor, where Lyric Music Theater’s “Kiss Me, Kate” is an outstanding community production of one of the finest Broadway shows ever written. Back north of the bridge, John Prine, a fixture on America’s […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Monday 5/2 Choral Art Society Auditions for the Masterworks Chorus, 6:30 p.m., Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland, schedule audition in advance with CAS Manager Michael Bachem at manager@choralart.org, FMI, choralart.org. Books, Authors Wednesday 4/27 Sarah Braunstein, author of “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children,” Author […]