The hilarious Noel Coward play “Private Lives” opens this weekend, with a performance on Friday night and a scheduled performance Saturday night, March 4 – that is, if the predicted snowstorm doesn’t shut down the show. The Friday and Saturday night shows begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Annex of the Chocolate Church Arts Center […]
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Duane Edwards Trio takes stage at Freeport’s Meetinghouse Arts
The Duane Edwards Trio will take stage in Freeport for a 7 p.m. performance on Saturday at Meetinghouse Arts, part of the venue’s jazz series. Bassist Duane Edwards is an accomplished musician currently living in Portland. He has performed throughout New England, across the United States, in Canada, and notably at Lincoln Center. He performs […]
An afternoon of musical entertainment with Josée Vachon
Josée Vachon will bring her musical entertainment and cultural show to the Riverfront-Franco Center stage at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 5. Through her music, she will share her Franco American joie de vivre–her joy of living as a Franco American. Born in Quebec and raised in Maine, Vachon has been sharing her Franco American upbringing for over 20 years, through traditional and contemporary folksongs from Quebec and […]
With new location and focus, Carnaval Maine hopes third time is the charm
The event, featuring live music, food, children’s activities and more, was first held in 2020 as a way to bring business into the city at a time when winter weather keeps people away.
From the Chocolate Church: ‘Private Lives’ gets the spotlight
Theater audiences are in for a night of laughs in March as director Mort Achter returns to the Chocolate Church Arts Center (CCAC) in Bath to direct his fourth production at the CCAC, “Private Lives,” a witty and timeless comedy by one of America’s best playwrights, Noel Coward. The play opens on two adjacent hotel […]
Maine Restaurant Week is returning for its 15th year. Here’s the deal
About 70 establishments are expected to participate in the annual event, started to help Maine restaurants attract customers in the dead of winter.
The Dance Hall founder created a community that will live on without her
Drika Overton, who founded the Kittery music and dance venue in 2010, is moving on but leaving it in good hands.
From the Chocolate Church: ‘Kill the Chill’ keeps the show going
For those of you who don’t know, the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath shuts down its main performance building right after Christmas until mid-March. But the musicians, dancers, artists and thespians carry on through the coldest months of the year in the building next door, called the Annex. Beginning in January, five presentations called […]
Face the Music: La Nef Chocolate in Bath partners with bands for Jukebox series of candy bars
Businessowners Dylan and Mandy Petrano started the themed bars in 2019, and local and regional acts are given a bite of the proceeds for every bar sold.
Meet Pat Corrigan, Portland’s accidental muralist
From the five moons of Pluto at Mayo Street Arts to a leaf-covered tree design replacing the Greyhound bus station mural, you don’t have to walk far in the city to encounter Corrigan’s work.