BRUNSWICK The Maine State Music Theatre and Fulton Theatre will present the new chamber version of “Ghost the Musical” June 8 through June 25 in Brunswick. The story features a cast of 10 and focuses on the central characters of the original story, with a 10-piece orchestra. New acoustic versions of the songs from the […]
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Upcoming events at the Chocolate Church
BATH The following events are scheduled at The Chocolate Church Arts Center over the course of the next week. The DuPont Brothers and Schooner Fare At The Chocolate Church Arts Center on Friday, The DuPont Brothers will perform an intimate concert in the Curtis Room at 7:30 p.m. The following day, Saturday, Chuck and Steve […]
‘Altered Couture’ hits the runway
BRUNSWICK The 6th annual “Mid-coast Altered Couture Contest” will take place June 9 at the Fort Andross Event Center located at 14 Maine St., Brunswick. The event will be held from 6-8 p.m. And doors will open to the public at 5 p.m. The Altered Couture Contest was created 6 years ago by Brunswick artist […]
Coffin Elementary School celebrates 60th anniversary
BRUNSWICK On May 31 from 6-7 p.m., Coffin Elementary School in Brunswick, located at 20 Barrows Street, will commemorate its 60th anniversary. This community gathering is open to the public and will feature multiple celebrations throughout the school, including birthday cake, an art show, a historical Powerpoint presentation and children’s activities. The student art show, […]
Maine Coast Waldorf School presents ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’
FREEPORT Maine Coast Waldorf School’s senior class will perform Irish playwright Brian Friel’s 1992 Tony award winning play, “Dancing at Lughnasa,” on May 31, June 2 and June 3 at 7 p.m. at Community Hall at 57 Desert Road in Freeport. Set in the fictional village of Ballybeg in County Donegal, Ireland in 1936, the […]
‘The Secret Garden’ auditions in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK Auditions for a family-friendly production of “The Secret Garden” to benefit the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program will take place on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. The performance will take place July 20 at 6 p.m., also at the Library. Actors of all ages are invited to participate […]
Duerwald, Alexander show work at ICON
BRUNSWICK ICON Contemporary Art in Brunswick is showing the work of husband and wife painters Laura Duerwald and Steven Alexander through June 25. Duerwald was a resident grant recipient at the Vermont Studio School this past winter, and she won the First Place Painting award at Scranton’s Northeast Biennial in 2015. A former graphic designer […]
Exhibit to showcase drawings by school children from Hiroshima
BRUNSWICK With the history of Hiroshima and U. S. and Japanese relations at the forefront of international news, an upcoming exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will shed light on the ties between these two nations. Opening in early 2017, the BCMA exhibition will showcase approximately 40 drawings created in the mid- 1950s […]
River Arts member show opening Friday
DAMARISCOTTA River Arts in Damariscotta is inviting the public to the opening reception of its 8th Annual Member Show on Friday from 5-7 p.m. The artwork submitted by members for this reflects the “artist’s choice” — free from the constraints of a themed show. The 90 works on exhibit represent a variety of media and […]
Neil Welliver retrospective in Freeport
The Thos. Moser Freeport Showroom in Freeport will feature contemporary artist Neil Welliver — known for his large-scale landscape paintings of the Maine woods — as well as works by his students and pieces depicting Acadia National Park and Mt. Desert Island beginning Saturday and running through Oct. 10. Approximately 40 works by Welliver, spanning […]