Football season kicked off a few weeks ago, and several of southern Maine’s performing arts producers, performers and presenters are doing likewise this week. Portland Players kicked off their 88th season of community theater in South Portland last weekend with a sensationally good production of one of the funniest musicals ever written: “Little Shop of […]
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Arts Calendar: Sept. 19-29
Greater Portland Call for Artists The Bakery Photo Collective: Annual Photo A Go-Go, juried fine-art photography auction, submissions due Oct. 8, for details see www.bakeryphoto.com/gogo. Exhibits Gentleman & Scholar Comics, Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive, interactive exhibit by illustrators Jim Couture of Yarmouth and Turner Huston of Topsham, through September. “The Art of Rube Goldberg,” first retrospective of cartoon […]
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Out & About: ‘Jersey Boys’ is big man in town
The leaves are beginning to turn, and schoolchildren and college students have already returned to their classrooms. And it’s also the time when southern Maine arts producers, performers and presenters return from their summer vacations. Two big Broadway musicals dominate this week’s pick of the tickets. Hottest of all is “Jersey Boys,” the 2005 show […]
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Arts Calendar: Sept. 12-21
Greater Portland Auditions “Mesmerized,” Snowlion Rep in Portland is casting equity and non-equity singer-actors by appointment for the May production at Portland Ballet Studio Theater. Rehearsals begin April 1; staged May 3-12, www.snowlionrep.org. Exhibits Gentleman & Scholar Comics, Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive, interactive exhibit by illustrators Jim Couture of Yarmouth and Turner Huston of Topsham, through September. “The Art […]
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Can shortage brewing for Maine beer makers
PORTLAND — Although local craft brewers are reluctant to talk about it, they are facing a tight supply of cans. One of the only brewers willing to discuss the problem, Paul Lorrain of Funky Bow Brewery & Beer Co. in Lyman, on Aug. 29 said his company has had particular difficulty obtaining increasingly popular 16-ounce […]
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Arts Calendar: Sept. 5-15
Greater Portland Auditions “Mesmerized,” Snowlion Rep in Portland is casting equity and non-equity singer-actors by appointment for the May production at Portland Ballet Studio Theater. Rehearsals begin April 1; staged May 3-12, www.snowlionrep.org. “White Christmas,” 7 p.m. Sept. 16 & 17, Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland, lyricmusictheater.org, 799-1421. Saturday 9/8 Nutcracker Burlesque, seeking dancers trained in any […]
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Thai restaurant on Broadway adds to South Portland’s Asian offerings
SOUTH PORTLAND — A new chef-owned Thai restaurant has opened at 740 Broadway. Owner-chef Than Pham said Hana Thai’s opening day, on Aug. 21, was a great success. “We did really well, it was a great turnout and introduction to the place,” Pham said. The 46-seat restaurant employs about 10 people in leased space – previously occupied […]
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Crepe Elizabeth couple content to ‘do one thing well’
CAPE ELIZABETH — There’s a robin’s-egg blue shed being towed around greater Portland – from “curbside to parkside to seaside,” its owners say – leaving the aroma of buttery batter and fresh produce in its wake. Crepe Elizabeth is a mobile kitchen serving sweet and savory crepes, launched in the spring by Brandi Haaf and Lonnie […]
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Arts Calendar: Aug. 29-Sept. 8
Greater Portland Auditions “A Christmas Carol: The Musical,” City Theater, Biddeford, 7 p.m. Sept. 9 for children; 7 p.m. Sept. 10 & 11 for adults, show dates Nov. 30-Dec. 16, www.citytheater.org/auditions. “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” Schoolhouse Arts Center, Route 114, Standish, 6-8 p.m., Sept. 9 & 10, 16. Show dates weekends Nov. 30- Dec. 9, www.schoolhousearts.org, mychelle72@hotmail.com. Royal River Community […]
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Out & About: Bluegrass festival in Brunswick top ticket
Labor Day weekend has arrived, and with it the finale of Maine’s short summer season of performing arts. And as always, there’s no doubt where I’ll be heading. The annual Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival, an anchor-bookend event, is the top ticket, drawing thousands from southern Maine and all over the U.S. and Canada to […]