Open Book Players will present “Reading Rumpus” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22, at Johnson Hall Opera House in Gardiner. This readers theatre presentation includes a cast of seventeen children and adults and performances will feature the works of Maine Children’s Books authors and illustrators. Books featured include: “The Lobster Lady” by Alexandra Hinrichs […]
Things to Do
Events and things to do from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Auburn Community Concert Band invites new members to join
Rehearsals for their Fall season begin on Wednesday, Sept. 11
Award-winning podcast producer featured scholar at UMF
Juliet Hinely, Peabody and Audie Award-winning podcast producer and sound designer, is a featured Libra Scholar sponsored by the UMF Art & Design program for the 2024 fall semester at the University of Maine at Farmington. Hinely comes to audio from the world of visual art and loves the deeply evocative power of sound to […]
Freeport Players to present ’12 Incompetent Jurors’
Freeport Players will present the comedic spoof “12 Incompetent Jurors” by Ian McWethy in various venues in the Midcoast area from Sept. 13-22. When a man is accused of stealing six cats, it seems like an open-and-shut case. However, with an oddball jury squabbling over bizarre theories and personal grievances, the situation quickly spirals into […]
Twenty years in, Camden film festival keeps getting more competitive
The festival, which starts Thursday, received more than 2,000 submissions for about 50 spots.
Throw on a flannel and head to these 15 fall events
Fill the season with pumpkins, crafts, food, music and more, often all in one place.
How does an orchardist like them apples? In pie, with wine and cheese, and with smiles
Aaron Libby, the son of Libby & Son U-Picks in Limerick, answers a few questions about the business ahead of this weekend’s statewide Maine Apple Sunday.
Lorrie Morgan plans Waterville concert Sept. 14
WATERVILLE — Lorrie Morgan plans to take the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. Morgan is one of the most eloquently emotive vocalists of modern times, a song stylist in the grandest tradition, according to a news release from the opera house. She is known for […]
Songs From Here announces series of concerts
Songs From Here, a Maine-based initiative supporting locally written classical vocal music, announces its third season of performances featuring soprano Sarah Tuttle of Portland and pianist Bridget Convey of Hallowell in a series of six concerts in venues around Maine. Tuttle and Convey will be joined in performances by various local poets, who will offer […]
‘Screwball Comedy’ performances set for Madison
MADISON — “Screwball Comedy” by Norm Foster will be staged at Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road. Performance times are 8 p.m. Sept. 12, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 21; 4 p.m. Sept. 15 and 2 p.m. Sept. 18. “Screwball Comedy,” set in 1938, finds Bosco Godfrey, editor-in-chief of the big city newspaper The Chronicle, roundly […]