BRUNSWICK —Tonight, Friday, May 9 at 6 p.m., The Brunswick Hotel and Tavern (4 Noble Street Brunswick, formerly the Inn at Brunswick Station) will host The Theater Project’s 6th Annual Benefit Auction. Theater Project Artistic Director and founder Al Miller, and Executive Director Wendy Poole invite fans and friends of The Theater Project to join […]

SOUTH FREEPORT — South Freeport Congregational Church is holding its first fundraising Author Luncheon on Friday May 16th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Charlotte Bacon, author of “A Private State”, “Lost Geography”, “There is Room for You”, “Split Estate”, and her newest, a mystery, “The Twisted Thread” will be speaking about her work followed […]

FREEPORT— On Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., the Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Road, Freeport, will hold a May celebration and Medieval Faire. Admission is free. Expect maypole dancing, games, and delicious food and drink. Medieval costumes are encouraged. For more information, call Deeda at the school at 865- 3900.

NEWCASTLE When Thomas Betterton and Henry Purcell created their spectacular operatic entertainment entitled “The Fairy-Queen,” they chose to use parts of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as a framework for song and extravagant stage effects. Today, “The Fairy-Queen” remains a delightful, if rarely performed, masque. St. Cecilia Chamber Choir will perform “The Fairy- Queen” to […]

Recognized mostly for hundreds of television roles dating back to the 1950s, Peter Mark Richman broke into film alongside Gary Cooper in the 1956 civil war western, “Friendly Persuasion.” Years earlier, a family member attempting a little friendly persuasion of his own almost pressed young Mark into a different career path. “My father died when […]

BATH This will be the last weekend for Howard Waxman’s production of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard”, billed as a comedy. But of course it’s Russian, so it’s not really a comedy. While there are farcical elements to “Cherry Orchard”, most of the characters never quite resolve their various pathea and never quite get shot of […]

May 2 EXHIBIT:Senior Studio: XIX The Bowdoin College 2014 Senior Class in Visual Arts cordially invites you to their exhibition, Senior Studio: XIX. The opening reception is today, Friday, May 2, from 5-7 p.m. in the Edwards Center for Art and Dance. The exhibition runs from May 2 – 7. We hope you join us […]

FREEPORT — The Greater Freeport Community Chorus will celebrate spring with performances in Freeport and Cumberland on May 3 and 4. Led by Director Virgil Bozeman and accompanist Dorothy Cuprak, the 65- member chorus will present a dozen pieces in a concert titled “Sun Moon Stars Rain”. The chorus, whose members hail from 20 Mid-coast […]

BATH — Recently, there has been a growing interest in genealogical research, particularly that which can be done online or in the local library. At Patten Free Library, the Sagadahoc History and Genealogy Room offers an unusual combination of abundant resources for local family histories, as well as access to Ancestry.com, Library Edition. To help […]