NEW YORK A good musical keeps you enthralled and stays with you afterward, as you find yourself humming refrains of new songs. “The Landing”, a lovely, quirky new musical theater work by John Kander and Greg Pierce, has enchanting moments and leaves you wanting more, in the Vineyard Theatre’s world-premiere production that opened Wednesday night. […]

BATH — Patten Free Library’s “On the Road” film festival concludes Tuesday, Oct. 29 with Arthur Penn’s 1967’s Academy Award-winning “Bonnie and Clyde.” Adrift in the Depressionera Southwest, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on a life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure and each other. Soon we start to love them […]

BRUNSWICK — Jean Kigel’s timely exhibit “Sayonara” is featured at Summer Island Studio, 149 Maine St., Nov. 1 – 31. Her fall-into-winter theme includes recent Asian brush paintings and watercolors, painted with a dazzling palette of vermillion and violet. Kigel’s signature piece, “Sayonara II,” captures the feel of fall with its turbulent sky tones. In […]

DAMARISCOTTA The lives of nearly 40 Midcoast students in grades 7-12 are immersed in an intensely educational performance experience: the eighth annual collaboration between Heartwood Regional Theater Company and Lincoln Academy. To stage “Fiddler on the Roof” took weeks of dedication and rehearsal, and will culminate next week as this well-loved Broadway musical opens on […]

BATH — Centre St Arts Gallery, invites the public to an opening reception for Claire Vigneau 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. Paintings by Vigneau are featured in the small gallery. She has worked in oil and pastels to capture the coast of Maine’s rocks, marshes and forests. Her work appears in various galleries […]

BATH — Brad Terry and Barry Saunders on clarinet, Peter Herman on guitar and Will Gallison on harmonica will play at the Chocolate Church Arts Center this Friday at 7 p.m. in a benefit concert for the arts center. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Chocolate Church. Tickets are $15. For more information, […]

BRUNSWICK — On the 17th anniversary of Cabot Mill Antiques, the store is offering 20 percent storewide discounts Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2-3. The store has also scheduled some antiques-related events: This fall’s celebration will feature independent appraiser Bruce A. Buxton offering free appraisals from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2-3. Buxton […]

TOPSHAM The Orion Performing Arts Center — School Administrative District 75’s theater inside Mt. Ararat Middle School — will hold a delicious event on Nov. 6. The Orion Advisory Committee is raising money to refurbish the theater—to replace the stage floor, paint the back wall, and improve curtains and lights. “Dining for a Cause” will […]