Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, the musical “The Color Purple” will run through Aug. 6 at the Pickard Theater in Brunswick.
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Bach Virtuosi Festival adds a free concert to its weeklong series
The festival, founded by Lewis Kaplan in 2016, is bringing acclaimed classical musicians to Portland for six concerts.
Meetinghouse Arts presents ‘Songs from Here’ on July 28
Program features collaboration between Maine-based musicians and local poets
Wiscasset Art Walk features drum-making, displays
Sidewalk activities offer creative opportunities for kids and adults
Cherish the Ladies perform in Boothbay Harbor
“It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” says the Boston Globe speaking of Cherish the Ladies, the Grammy-nominated Irish-American group that formed in New York City in 1985 to celebrate the rise of extraordinary women in what had been a male-dominated Irish music scene. Since their first sold-out […]
Mid-season opening at Pemaquid Art Gallery to honor patrons
Patrons of the Pemaquid Art Gallery will get a chance to win a piece of artwork by a member artist next month. The drawing will take place on Thursday, August 4, from 5-6:30 p.m. at an annual event that is open to the public. This mid-season opening will showcase many new works by member artists. […]
Midcoast Symphony hosts outdoor performance in Bath
Orchestra to perform in Bath’s Library Park
Author Susan Conley to speak at Popham Beach Library
Susan Conley, award-winning author of five books including her newest best-seller “Landslide,” which was named a New York Times Book Review’s “Editor’s Choice,” will speak about her work at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, as part of the Popham Beach Library Summer Series. Conley has been awarded multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, as […]
New York’s Robert Bannon, Maine’s Tim Sample on stage in Boothbay Harbor
Visitors to, and residents of, the Boothbay region can experience two live performances at the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor on July 20 and 21. New York stage performer Robert Bannon appears on Wednesday, July 20, and Maine humorist Tim Sample returns to the historic stage July 21, after a three-year hiatus due to the […]
Maine State Music Theatre, Portland Stage team up for ‘Smoke on the Mountain’
Maine State Music Theatre and Portland Stage will once again team up to present a co-production of “Smoke on the Mountain” from Aug. 2 – 28. The show tells the hilarious, heartwarming story of a Saturday Night Gospel Sing at a country church in North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains in 1938. The show features two dozen […]