BRUNSWICK — The Thinking Heart, an ensemble performance work in two voices, with cello, based on the life and loves of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch woman who died in the Holocaust, will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Frontier Café in Fort Andross, 14 Main St. Admission costs $10 in advance or $12 […]

BRUNSWICK — John Morneau will conduct the Bowdoin College Concert Band in a free program titled “Oh, The Places You’ll Go! — Music of Destinations” at 2 p.m. Sunday in Studzinski Recital Hall.

BRUNSWICK — Today and Saturday, Bowdoin College artist-in-residence George Lopez will host a festival celebrating the piano, featuring legendary pianist Ilana Vered, a new work by Bowdoin composer Vineet Shende and the New England premiere of a recently unearthed piece by Vladimir Horowitz. A $20 registration fee is required for this series of recitals, master […]

BRUNSWICK — Arts are Elementary and Spindleworks will hold two All Species Parade puppet-making workshops during April school vacation at the Theater Project, 14 School St. Workshops will run from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday and from 9 a.m. to noon April 20. Participation is free and open to all, but children must be accompanied […]

BRUNSWICK — Cuba Week, the annual celebration of Brunswick’s sister city relationship with Trinidad, Cuba, will run from April 20 to April 29. Presented by Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association (BTSCA), the ninth annual Cuba Week is themed around Cuba’s love of baseball. The sister-city association describes this year’s theme as follows: Cuba is known to have […]

TOPSHAM — Comedian Bob Marley has made audiences laugh until they cry on stages across the country and through television screens, having made appearance on the entire late night TV circuit. Known as New England’s King of Comedy, Marley is a Maine native who, after living in Los Angeles for several years, returned to his home […]

BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin International Music Festival’s 2012 season, which will run from June 27 through Aug. 3, will present the music of two very different composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy, plus classical, romantic and contemporary composers they influenced. Highlights will include performances by the virtuoso violinist Midori, the Ying and Shanghai Quartets, violist […]

BRUNSWICK “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World,” a new exhibition that explores the relationship between humans and animals in the Inuit world, opens today at the Peary- MacMillan Arctic Museum on the Bowdoin College campus. The exhibit will run though April 6, 2014. A release from the college describes the exhibit as follows: […]

BRUNSWICK — A Wabanaki Arts Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 14 at Smith Union on the Bowdoin College campus. The festival brings Native American artists and musicians from Maine and across New England to campus for the day. This is the fifth year that Bowdoin College will host this event […]

PORTLAND Good Theater recently announced the lineup for its upcoming 11th season, which opens this fall and continues into spring 2013. The season will kick off on Oct. 10 with the Maine premiere of A.R. Gurney’s “The Grand Manner.” The play is a tribute to the Golden Age of Broadway about Katherine Cornell, the first […]