Greater Portland Auditions  Tuesday 5/29  Vivid Motion Dance, 7-8:30 p.m., Drouin Dance Center, 90 Bridge St., Westbrook, for “Constellation” Aug. 3-5, ages 9 to adult trained in any style, see vividmotion.org/auditions. Exhibits Colorful and Whimsical Labrador Retrievers by Cape Elizabeth artist Jim Williams, Thomas Memorial Library, 67 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, to May 31. “I Am More: […]

A pair of Broadway musicals dominate this week’s top picks among southern Maine’s performing arts offerings, and they couldn’t be further apart in terms of scope and tone. “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” which opens the 2018 season at Ogunquit Playhouse, is a compact jukebox musical based on the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who […]

A pair of Broadway musicals dominate this week’s top picks among southern Maine’s performing arts offerings, and they couldn’t be further apart in terms of scope and tone. “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” which opens the 2018 season at Ogunquit Playhouse, is a compact jukebox musical based on the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who […]

Greater Portland Exhibits Colorful and Whimsical Labrador Retrievers by Cape Elizabeth artist Jim Williams, Thomas Memorial Library, 67 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, to May 31. “I Am More: Facing Stigma,” black and white photo exhibit, ThinkTank Coworking, Congress Street, Portland. Part of the Yellow Tulip Project’s mission to support people struggling with mental illness,  to June […]

As the fall-winter-spring seasons of many of Maine’s producing, presenting and performing companies draw to an end, the summer season of music festivals is getting an early start this weekend. The Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival, produced by the Portland Conservatory of Music, presents four concerts of works by living classical composers, including several from […]

As the fall-winter-spring seasons of many of Maine’s producing, presenting and performing companies draw to an end, the summer season of music festivals is getting an early start this weekend. The Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival, produced by the Portland Conservatory of Music, presents four concerts of works by living classical composers, including several from […]

Greater Portland Auditions Call for Musicians and Singers, secular revival with Ideal Maine brass band, a local chorus, and Rev Billy’s Stop Shopping Choir at Mayo Street Arts on Sunday, June 24, email mike.romany@gmail.com for more.  Exhibits Colorful and Whimsical Labrador Retrievers by Cape Elizabeth artist Jim Williams, Thomas Memorial Library, 67 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth. […]

The leaves are out and the seniors are graduating. That’s also a certain sign that the 2017-2018 season for performing arts producers and presenters is coming to a close. Two of our region’s orchestras are exiting this weekend. The Portland Symphony wraps up Sunday with a program conducted by one of the three finalists for […]

Greater Portland Exhibits Cia cafe, 72 Ocean St., South Portland, oil, watercolor, acrylics and photography by local artists Claudia Hughes, Tammy Charles, Heidy Spenard and Bob Pecchia, to May 15. Wednesday 5/2 “I Am More: Facing Stigma,” black and white photo exhibit opens at Speedwell Projects Gallery, Forest Avenue, Portland, on view to May 12; moves to ThinkTank […]

Two new musical experiences are slated for May 4 and beyond, and both are connected to Portland’s First Friday Art Walk. The most impressive will be a mass parade of musicians from Monument Square to Congress Square, led by Daniel Bernard Roumain, a composer and violinist who’s best known for creating cross-genre sonic and visual […]