ROCKLAND Rockland Public Library will show “Hairspray,” the classic film by John Waters, on at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. When Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teen played by Ricki Lake, auditions for a spot on a popular teen dance show, she beats out the spiteful Amber von Tussle, played by Colleen Fitzpatrick, winning over Amber’s boyfriend in […]

LEWISTON A 17-year-old pianist will headline the fourth annual Frank Glazer Memorial Steinway Concert at Lewiston’s Gendron Franco Center at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Ksenia Kostelanetz was born in Indianapolis to a musical family of Russian immigrants, and started playing piano at age 4. Her family lives in Wisconsin, but spends summers in Maine. During […]

Maine State Music Theatre closes its 60th season with “Singing in the Rain,” a classic musical based on the classic 1952 film. This stage production is a multi-faceted buffet of high-quality entertainment. For the audience, it’s two hours of delightful, colorful, mesmerizing, joy-inducing, kinetic artistic stimuli. Like a living, breathing kaleidoscope. One moment red-carpet glamour, […]

DAMARISCOTTA Images of Maine’s iconic rugged coastline will be the star of Kefauver Studio & Gallery’s latest exhibition. Opening today, and running through Sept. 9, the “Rock ‘n’ Wave” art show is the gallery’s third of the season. An opening reception will take place from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Saturday; many of the guest artists will be […]

BATH/PHIPPSBURG Musicians representing Seattle, Boston and Bath will perform classical pieces on instruments that would have been familiar to the composers in Bath and Phippsburg next week. The Kennebec Early Music Festival is bringing together five musicians of national and international renown to perform Aug. 14-19, at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath and the […]

FREEPORT Kittery-based artist Kevin C. Kuehl is showing his photography at Freeport Community Library through August. Kuehl has had a camera in hand since he was a kid, and started off by making silly movies with friends. These shenanigans eventually led to a bachelors degree from Australia, a job at Bad Robot Productions, and into […]

WISCASSET Works by noted American and European artists will be part of “The Impressionist’s Eye” exhibition opening Saturday at Wiscasset Bay Gallery. Artists represented in the show hail from the United States, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Of particular interest is an oil painting by Baltimore and New York artist Charles Yardley […]

BRUNSWICK There will be something for every art lover during the 12th annual Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival. Designed to celebrate and foster an appreciation of the arts, the festival will take over Maine Street and the Town Mall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18. The juried fine arts show includes more than […]

DAMARISCOTTA Who isn’t moved by certain colors? Artists know that colors are warm or cold and that opposites make interesting greys, but appreciating art can be an instinctual response to the colors resonating in a particular piece of work. Stable Gallery’s August show is titled “Color Play.” The show opens with a public reception for […]

ROCKLAND Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is back for a ninth time, and author Paul Doiron is ready to talk about his character. Doiron will read from and talk about “Stay Hidden,” his latest offering in the Bowditch crime series, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Community Room at Rockland Public Library. Following the talk, […]