Check out a TESLA concert
The ground started shaking in Sacramento, California, in 1984, gold country that would soon be producing some platinum. The band started out as City Kidd, until a suggested name change to TESLA, honoring the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla who pioneered all things electrical.
Its 1986 platinum debut album, Mechanical Resonance, included Top 40 hits “Modern Day Cowboy” and “Little Suzi.” 1989’s double-platinum The Great Radio Controversy included hits “Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out)” and “Love Song.” Suddenly, TESLA, which had been touring with bands such as Def Leppard and David Lee Roth, earned headlining status. In 1990, TESLA helped reshape the face of modern rock music by stripping down to the Five Man Acoustical Jam, an informal collection of its biggest hits peppered with rock ‘n’ roll classics by the Beatles, Stones, and others.
See ‘Office Hours’ on the Lakewood Theater stage
MADISON — “Office Hours” will be staged June 5-14 at Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road.
Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. June 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 and 14; 2 p.m. June 11 and 4 p.m. June 8.
Tickets cost $28-$34; lakewoodtheater.org or 207-474-7176.
The production is a biting look at how people get by in the modern world. On a Friday afternoon we follow six different story lines set in six different offices in a big city, each unrelated to the next yet somehow connected by small details. This diabolically clever work is divided into six individually titled segments: “The Reporter,” “The Pitch,” “The Agent,” “The Visit,” “The Dismissal” and “The Analyst.”
The play’s 16 characters are all intent on holding their lives together by keeping reality at bay, and the denials are achingly funny. A strong-willed female boss and a demoted TV news reporter; a slimeball agent caught cheating red-handed by his wife; an insecure producer rejects the idea that his “original“ script about a young Englishman raised by apes to become lord of the jungle just might have been done before; an entertainment lawyer has an eventful lunch with his parents and his domineering mother insists that she is not authoritarian; a 200-pound jockey refuses to admit the obvious; a psychiatrist is dealing with the jumper on the ledge outside her office window and she is eager to get him inside so she can leave on a much-anticipated vacation.
Take in a Paul Reiser show
Friday at the Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St.
Tickets cost $46-$56; operahouse.org.
Voted by Comedy Central as one of the Top 100 Comedians of All Time, Reiser regularly performs sold-out standups at venues nationwide.
The Sixties Show planned in Waterville
Saturday at Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St
Tickets: $41-$51; operahouse.org.
The Sixties Show is widely celebrated and known for its spot-on, note-for-note recreations of the greatest hits, B-sides, and deep album cuts from 1960s. In addition to the concert experience, this high energy show is a large-scale and ambitious multimedia, stage production that is powerfully dramatized by a combination of time travel special effects, narration, ’60s archival audio and newsreel footage, and a light show.
The members of the band were hand-picked to perform and record with Paul McCartney, The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, The Bee Gees, Mick Jagger, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, and other legends, and individually have performed at the most renown venues in the world such as Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, Wembley Stadium, The Grand Rex in Paris, The Budokan in Tokyo, and others.
Become a marsh and stream explorer
FARMINGDALE — Join Maine Audubon’s Community Science Project to Measure Water Quality and Stream Health at 9 a.m. Saturday at Jamies Pond.
Maine Audubon is partnering with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection on the Stream and Marsh Explorers program, to recruit, train and support volunteers interested in searching streams and freshwater wetlands for large aquatic insects (macroinvertebrates) that are indicators of water quality.
At this hands-on field day sessions, people can learn from DEP experts on how to survey for and identify macroinvertebrates and practice doing it yourself. This is a great activity for educators who can do the project with students, for families, or anyone looking to contribute to community science.
This is a fun and family-friendly way to get involved in collecting valuable data.
For more information email Phil Keefe at [email protected].
Don’t miss the Steve Earle concert
WATERVILLE — A Steve Earle concert is set for 7:30 p.m. June 10, Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., with opening act, Elias Hix.
Tickets cost $56-$66; operahouse.org.
Earle is a protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. He quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, The Pretenders, Shawn Colvin and countless others.
His 1988 hit “Copperhead Road” was made an official state song of Tennessee in 2023. In 2020, Earle was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. And in 2023, he was honored by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. In April, he was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Steve’s newest album, “Alone Again (Live),” was released in 2024.
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