BRUNSWICK — “James and the Giant Peach,” Roald Dahl’s amazing adventure of James Henry Trotter is the next production class at The Theater Project, and registration is still open for young actors in grades 6 to 8. At The Theater Project, production classes use theater games and improvisational techniques with a focus on story and […]

RICHMOND — The Richmond High School Drama Club will present it’s annual spring musical, “Lucky Stiff,” March 7, 8 and 9 at the Marcia Buker Elementary School. All performances begin at 7 p.m. With lyrics and music by the team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (“Ragtime,” “Seussical”), “Lucky Stiff” is a farcical homage to […]

BATH March is synonymous with basketball tourneys to those who follow college basketball, and for those high school teams that managed to extend their season until this weekend’s state championship round. But for kids who show their extracurricular talents on the stage rather than the courts, there’s another kind of March Madness, and it is […]

PORTLAND — Grammy winner John Popper of Blues Traveler and music superstar Chris Barron of Spin Doctors will join local music all-stars for the F.O.G. Festival, Feb. 28 through March 2, at various Portland music venues. The festival is expected to bring more than 100 musicians together for the love of jam-style performing and to […]

BATH Studio Theatre of Bath’s newest production, “Sex, Lies and the Devil Inside,” is six plays for the price of one. These six one acts change settings and characters like sketches in “The Carol Burnett Show.” Also like their TV counterpart, the cast of the entire show forms a company with actors playing new characters […]

MIAMI Stephenie Meyer’s “The Host” doesn’t have much in common with her Twilight series, except maybe the potential for a franchise. Meyer is working on a sequel to the 2008 novel she began writing as an escape from the editing of “Eclipse,” the third book in the Twilight vampire saga. And now that it too […]

BRUNSWICK — Fort Andross will host its annual Winter Antiques Show on Sunday, Feb. 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This winter’s show will feature more than 50 antiques dealers from Virginia and Massachusetts as well as all regions of Maine, offering an array of quality antiques from 18th and 19th century primitives to […]

DAMARISCOTTA — The Maine Women Write Book Club lunches are starting up for the 2013 season. On Thursday, Feb. 28, at noon, the Maine Coast Book Shop will host Barbara Walsh, author of “August Gale, A Father and Daughter’s Journey Into the Storm,” a journalist’s voyage into her family history and her quest to face […]

BATH — At 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, Patten Free Library will host an evening of poetry as the fifth stop on the journey of the Maine Poetry Express, an initiative of Maine’s poet laureate, Wesley McNair. Gary Lawless of Nobleboro and Sally Woolf-Wade of New Harbor will be the featured guest poets. Lawless […]

TOPSHAM — Cathance River Education Alliance and Topsham Public Library invite the public to a special presentation about eagles, their amazing character, and their stories of courage after injury. The presentation will be held at the library, 25 Foreside Road, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Come meet Sky, a golden eagle, […]