BRUNSWICK — “Sunset Boulevard,” Maine State Music Theatre’s third production of the 2012 season, opens Wednesday. An MSMT release describes the production as “a grand musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder film with a lush, Tony Award–winning score from Andrew Lloyd Webber and a Tony Award–winning book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton.” “Sunset Boulevard […]

LISBON — After a hiatus of more than 10 years, the Lisbon Recreation Department and the Moxie Festival Committee plan to bring the Moxie Car Show back to the Moxie Festival. Proceeds will benefit the Sunshine Hill Neighbor’s Senior Citizen Program. Applications for the 2012 Moxie Car Show, which will run from 8 a.m. to […]

GEORGETOWN — Women writers of the former incorporated village of Bay Point in Georgetown will be the subject of a Georgetown Historical Society (GHS) presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Professor John Swift will discuss the works of two women who wrote memoirs and fiction set at Bay Point and on Long Island in the 1930s […]

BRUNSWICK — Librarians Melissa Orth and Linda Oliver from Curtis Memorial Library will lead a program on how to use the Star Walk iPad app to identify constellations and celestial bodies on Tuesday at Crystal Spring Farm, 277 Pleasant Hill Road. “We’ll arrive around 8 p.m., but the sun is not scheduled to set until […]

HARPSWELL — Members of the Harpswell Art and Craft Guild will take part in the second annual “Celebrate Summer in Harpswell” at 33 venues on Saturday and Sunday. Guests are invited to take farm tours, visit studios and gardens, sail or paddle Harpswell’s coves, make wreaths, sample local food, learn how antique engines work, discover […]

BRUNSWICK T he Bowdoin International Music Festival offers another week of masterful performances of classical music. Tonight’s Festival Friday performance will showcase Maine artist Ray Cornils on harpsichord in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. The concert continues with two works for solo piano — an arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by […]

BRUNSWICK — First Parish Church, UCC will launch into its 26th annual summer organ concert series on Tuesday. Randy Mullen will kick off the noontime series, which features weekly Tuesday concerts through Aug. 14 on the church’s 1883 Hutchings, Plaisted & Company pipe organ, which was recently restored by the Andover Organ Company of Methuen, […]

GEORGETOWN Friends of Seguin Lighthouse plans to hold its first art exhibit on the island this summer. Works will be displayed in Maine’s tallest and second oldest lighthouse. The group invites artists to participate in the show. “Bring your paints, pastels and/or cameras,” a Friends of Seguin Lighthouse release states. “Have a summer adventure, create […]

BOWDOINHAM — The Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble’s production of “Aquitania,” opens at 7:30 p.m. today at Bowdoinham Town Hall, 13 School St. Written and directed by Stephen Legawiec with choreography by Dana Wieluns Legawiec, “Aquitania” features a cast of professional Maine actors and singers in a surreal landscape of music, mystery and magic. A Ziggurat release […]