Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art  Call for Art, non-juried exhibit, open to amateur and professional visual artists, age 50 and older, for exhibit in 9th Annual Festival of Art in Belfast, May 12-15, sponsored by Senior College and the University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Liz Fitzsimmons, 338-4245, March 31 entry deadline. Dramatic Repertory Company […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art  Call for Art, non-juried exhibit, open to amateur and professional visual artists, age 50 and older, for exhibit in 9th Annual Festival of Art in Belfast, May 12-15, sponsored by Senior College and the University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Liz Fitzsimmons, 338-4245, March 31 entry deadline. Cape Elizabeth Land […]

Southern Maine’s two major ballet companies will be stepping out in force this first weekend of spring. Portland Ballet is presenting a retrospective of its work over the past 30 years on Friday and Saturday. Maine State Ballet, headquartered in Falmouth, presents “Sleeping Beauty,” a favorite old European fairy tale about a wicked witch’s curse, […]

Theater dominates the top of the arts and entertainment offerings as the mid-point of March passes and the calendar inexorably marches toward spring. Two professional theatrical productions are highly recommended. First is “Bedroom Farce,” a comic masterpiece by Alan Ayckbourn, a British comic playwright who has penned more than 70 laughers for the stage. Good […]

I was contemplating putting together an austere Maine fish chowder (made with haddock, water, potato, milk, bay leaf and a scraping of onion) when Down East’s updated edition of “Good Maine Food: Ancient and Modern New England Food and Drink” by Marjorie Mosser arrived. Mosser’s book, first published in 1939, has the original notes made […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Audition Notice, for Staged Reading of “That Takes Ovaries,” by Rivka Solomon, A Hardy Girls Healthy Women event, April 9 performance at Longfellow Square, seeking 6 or more female actors, ages 13-23, casting to be completed by March 18, to schedule audition, call 653-4554.  Cape Elizabeth Land Trust, accepting […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art   Cape Elizabeth Land Trust, accepting artist submissions for Paint for Preservation 2011, annual juried Wet Paint Auction held on Sunday, July 17, 2011; submit two digital images of original paintings in any medium on CD or via email; submission deadline Monday, March 28; submission requirements, capelandtrust.org/paintforpreservation/2011. “Maine’s Got […]

“Riverdance,” a spectacular terpsichorean celebration of Irish heritage and culture that’s been a sensational hit on world stages for the past 15 years, is this week’s top pick of the tix. The current North American tour stops in Portland’s Merrill Auditorium for three performances this Friday and Saturday. On Sunday it’s the laundry that dances […]

Jonathan Larson’s epic, groundbreaking adventure in musical theater, “Rent,” was a surprise sensational hit on Broadway in the 1990s. Equally surprising, “Rent” is the current sensational hit at Lyric Music Theater, a few hundred yards off Broadway in South Portland. To rephrase an overused expression: Lyric’s superb version of this spellbinding rock opera isn’t your […]