BOOTHBAY — Music Doing Good (formerly Divas World Productions) presents “Sail Away — High C’s on the High Seas,” a benefit concert for the Boothbay Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the opera house. “Featuring the diverse talents of core artists Aisha Ussery Adams, Kenneth Gayle, Phillip Hall, Aaron Kaufman, Anita […]

PORTLAND — In conjunction with PORTopera’s summer mainstage production of “Madama Butterfly,” an exhibit illustrating historic connections between Maine and Japan, opens Monday in the lobby of Merrill Auditorium on Myrtle Street. The exhibit is in two parts, featuring a depiction of the connections between Maine and Japan, sponsored by PORTopera, National Endowment for the […]

POLAND SPRING — The Poland Spring Preservation Society will host a concert by the Mollyockett Chorus will at 7 p.m. Monday at the All Souls Chapel, 37 Preservation Way. The Mollyockett Chorus of Sweet Adeline International includes women from Oxford, Androscoggin and Cumberland counties. They sing a cappella in four-part harmony and their repertoire includes […]

BOOTHBAY — The Boothbay Railway Village will host the 48th Antique Auto Days on Saturday and Sunday. “This two-day event brings together antique car enthusiasts from all over New England to display their autos and trucks and participate in the annual Sunday parade through Boothbay Harbor,” a Boothbay Railway Village release states. The museum collaborates […]

TOPSHAM Midcoast Youth Theater will present the oddball romantic comedy “Guys and Dolls,” performed by a singing and dancing cast of local teens, beginning Thursday at the Orion Performing Arts Center, 50 Republic Ave. Curtain times are 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, July 27, and at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 28. A Midcoast […]

BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin International Music Festival offers concerts or classes every day of the coming week. The festival’s concert this evening will showcase former festival student Kier GoGwilt in Beethoven’s Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra. Dvorak’s Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74 and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 will also be on […]

Christopher Nolan concludes his Batman trilogy in typically spectacular, ambitious fashion with “The Dark Knight Rises,” but the feeling of frustration and disappointment is unshakable. Maybe that was inevitable. Maybe nothing could have met the expectations established by 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” which revolutionized and set the standard for films based on comic books by […]

BRUNSWICK — At 7 p.m. Thursday, the Frontier Café in Fort Andross will host world premiere performances of compositions by upright bassist Joshua DeScherer, Daniel Sonenberg (University of Southern Maine), Don Pride and Lee Todd Lacks, and performances by all of those composers, alongside clarinetist Maria Wagner, violinist Tom Swafford, and cellist Ben Noyes. For […]

BRUNSWICK — The Novel Jazz Septet will perform “Great Works of Ellington and Strayhorn” at 8 p.m. July 28 at Frontier Café in Fort Andross on Maine Street. The Maine-based jazz ensemble will perform standard tunes from the Ellington Strayhorn repertoire plus newly arranged compositions that they have found in the Ellington Archives of the […]