The Open Book Players will open its 25th season with three short original plays written by local playwrights at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, at Johnson Hall, at 280 Water St., in Gardiner. All three plays were winners in the Original Readers Theatre Script Competition hosted by Open […]
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USM Department of Theatre kicks Off 2021-22 season with outdoor theatrical adventure
The USM Department of Theatre welcomes audiences back to theatre with a free, family-friendly, traveling outdoor show, “The Marvelous Meep Island Adventure.” On the marvelous Meep Island, the Meeps play all day long; until, one fine day, the Somethings come along … Are these Somethings unpleasant? Will these Somethings be kind? What sort of Somethings […]
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Comfort and Joy concert with Down East Singers set
Down East Singers, directed by Anthony Antolini, will present a free concert Comfort and Joy, with guest fiddler Owen Kennedy at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, in the Camden Amphitheatre, on Atlantic Ave. in Camden. The event is co-sponsored by the Camden Public Library. The performance will be a tribute to people who have suffered […]
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MET ‘Live in HD’ returns to Fryeburg Oct. 9
The Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning Live in HD series returns Saturday, Oct. 9, to the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley St., in Fryeburg. Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov will be followed by the historic Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones on Oct. 23. The 15th season of Live in HD […]
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Gardiner to host Maine Craft Weekend events showcasing local artisans, businesses
Gardiner is one of six featured cities in the statewide event and has coordinated citywide events to showcase locally made work and give people a chance to visit where the work is made.
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‘The Russia House’ a dark, romantic love and espionage story
Here’s a golden chance to watch Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, in a John le Carré story about spies of three countries vying for explosive Russian nuclear data. Out of the past comes a 2009 dark, romantic love and espionage story that shines a new light on those two stars. With the script written by […]
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Frank Santos Jr. will present his R Rated Comedy Hypnosis
Legendary entertainer Frank Santos Jr. will present his R Rated Comedy Hypnosis act at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, on the first level of 49 Franklin in Rumford. This show is intended for mature audiences with a good sense of adult humor, and is part of the Best of Boston Entertainment Series. Santos’ spectacular display […]
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Seth Glier plans CD release concert
A Seth Glier CD release concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1, at The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave. in Boothbay Harbor. Glier’s new album “The Coronation” is an invitation to forge a new, more beautiful world out of the current chaos. “For most of my adult life, I’ve held […]
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Up-and-coming country singer songwriter Hank Williams IV to make debut appearance in Madison
It’s always fun to interview new acts coming to central Maine to perform, such is the case with a country singer-songwriter with a very famous name: Hank Williams IV. Back on the 15th of this month, I got a call from a gentleman with an accent that spoke of the south and we chatted. Williams: […]
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International comedy ‘The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?’ coming to Franco stage Oct. 6
LEWISTON – Robert Dubac’s “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?” is coming to the Franco Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, at 46 Cedar St. On a quest to answer the age-old question, “What do women want?” Dubac transforms himself into five “hysterical boneheads who each offer sidesplitting advice on how to best straddle the […]