It’s shaping up as a very musical weekend, with two big shows and more set for Feb. 24-26. The biggest item on the calendar will be the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ landmark release of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” It’s scheduled for two performances, Saturday and Sunday. […]

Greater Portland Auditions 2017 MAMM SLAM, registration open until March 10, for Maine’s High School Rock Off. Open to bands and solo artists; register online at mainetoday.com/mammslam. Exhibits Art Guild of Freeport, month-long exhibit, Freeport Community, 10 Library Drive, to Feb.28. TEMPOart Portland invites Maine artists to submit proposals for temporary projects in Portland’s public spaces during summer 2017. Submission […]

Diverse musical styles, geographic locales and time periods are represented in this week’s picks of the tix on the arts and entertainment calendar. Top billing goes to the East Pointers, a trad trio from Prince Edward Island. Recently nominated for a Juno Award – Canada’s Grammy – the East Pointers will be motoring into Portland on Friday. […]

Greater Portland Exhibits Art Guild of Freeport, month-long exhibit, Freeport Community, 10 Library Drive, to Feb.28.  TEMPOart Portland invites Maine artists to submit proposals for temporary projects in Portland’s public spaces during summer 2017. Submission deadline Feb. 28. For more, email info@tempoartmaine.org. “Contours in Monochrome,” by Kerry Michaels, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, to March 3. “Enchanted,” 23 gallery […]

America’s oldest continuously performing arts organization is coming to perform in Portland. Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, founded five years before Maine gained statehood, will visit this Saturday, hosted by Portland Ovations. The Lantz-Kargul duo isn’t quite that ancient, but it’s rapidly becoming part of the cultural fabric of Maine. This Sunday violinist Ron Lantz […]

Greater Portland Exhibits TEMPOart Portland invites Maine artists to submit proposals for temporary projects in Portland’s public spaces during summer 2017. Submission deadline Feb. 28. For more, email info@tempoartmaine.org. “Contours in Monochrome,” by Kerry Michaels, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, to March 3. Film Friday 2/10 “Casablanca,” 7:30 p.m., Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland. Classic […]

Stage dramas in various forms take center stage on the performing arts calendar this week in southern Maine, with two fine professional local productions plus a visit from a national touring company. In Portland, Good Theater opened the Maine premiere of “The May Queen,” a rather funny drama where past and present collide. Remarkably, that’s […]

Greater Portland Exhibits “Maine and Beyond,” by Jill Shaw, Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth, through January. “Contours in Monochrome,” by Kerry Michaels, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, to March 3. Film Thursday 1/26 “Freedom On My Mind,” Civil Rights Film Series, 6:30 p.m. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. Saturday 1/28 “Bonnie and […]

Louisa May Alcott was one of the brightest and best-remembered voices in a literary “golden age” that was famously characterized as “the flowering of New England.” Alcott’s most famous novel was “Little Women,” and a fine community staging of its musical adaptation runs through this Sunday in South Portland. The 1970s might be considered a […]