Greater Portland Renaissance Voices, Portland classical a capella chorus, is auditioning for the 2018-19 season, email director Harold Stover at harold@haroldstover.com.Auditions. Exhibits Poured Enamel Paint Landscapes by Jon Byrer, Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive, through July. Photographs from Yarmouth Historical Society, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, to Sept. 8. Ongoing “Blacksmiths & Storekeepers: Freeport […]

Aficionados of musical theater have much to cheer about as we head toward the end of July. My top two picks of the tix include a big Broadway show and a classical opera. Plus there are two showcase concerts. Ogunquit Playhouse is currently running the New England premiere of “An American in Paris,” a stage […]

Greater Portland Auditions “And Then There Were None,” murder mystery by Agatha Christie, noon-2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 15 & 6-9 p.m. Monday, July 16, Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road, (Route 114,) Standish, www.schoolhousearts.org. Exhibits Poured Enamel Paint Landscapes by Jon Byrer, Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive, through July. “America Now … A Dialogue,” Portland Public Library, Monument […]

Another week and another music festival cranks up. That’s the way life ought to be. That’s certainly the way life is in southern Maine, where more than a dozen music festivals dot the summertime calendar. On July 17, the 46th annual edition of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival gets going at the nationally recognized historic […]

Greater Portland Exhibits “Blacksmiths & Storekeepers: Freeport Village, Crossroads of Change, 1770-1920,” Freeport Historical Society, 45 Main St., through December. “America Now … A Dialogue,” July 7-21, Portland Public Library, Monument Square, in conjunction with The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, to July 21. Poured Enamel Paint Landscapes by Jon Byrer, Freeport Community Library, 10 […]

CAPE ELIZABETH — A popular Bowery Beach Road ice cream shop has a new owner and new name. But patrons can rest assured the renamed Kettle Cove Creamery & Shack is still serving the same homemade, hard-serve ice cream that’s kept customers coming back summer after summer. What has changed under Mike Concannon’s ownership is the […]

Musical theater, opera and old-time music are all on this week’s menu of summertime entertainment treats. Top ticket is “Beauty and the Beast,” the Walt Disney Co.’s stage version of its animated movie of the same name, which is in turn based on French fairy tale. This superb show runs through July 14 at Maine […]

Musical theater, opera and old-time music are all on this week’s menu of summertime entertainment treats. Top ticket is “Beauty and the Beast,” the Walt Disney Co.’s stage version of its animated movie of the same name, which is in turn based on French fairy tale. This superb show runs through July 14 at Maine […]