BANGOR — Well paint my face blue and call me Roscoe if I didn’t have a heck of a lot of fun last Saturday at the Bangor Opera — or should I say Opry? — House, where I saw Penobscot Theatre Company’s production of “Honky Tonk Laundry.” This two-woman show of near non-stop country classics …
BLUE HILL — When Maine author Monica Wood’s debut play opens, we meet Ernie Donahue, a proud and loyal man who has worked 41 of his 60 years in the local Maine paper mill, where his father worked before him and his son now works as well. Ernie met his wife when they were 7 …
BLUE HILL — The Tesla Quartet, named after the Serbian physicist and inventor and visionary Nikola Tesla, will express its innovative spirit when it performs at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10, at the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill. The string ensemble, which released its first album “Haydn, Ravel, and Stravinsky” earlier this year, …
True to that memorable line, 1998’s “The Big Lebowski,” starring Jeffrey Bridges as Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, is a truly ludicrous film that lives on and will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10, at the Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor. In the Coen Brothers’ cult …
ELLSWORTH — Classical guitarist Kevin Morse and trumpeter/composer Mark Tipton will play a midday concert at 1 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11, at the Moore Community Center in Ellsworth. This free, professional concert is presented by Ellsworth Community Music Institute. The theme is romance, since the concert is so close to Valentine’s Day. The program …
Can you name the early 20th-century Maine high school football star who went on to win more Academy Awards for Best Director than any other filmmaker?
STONINGTON — “Standing up and speaking out” is the theme of Opera House Arts’ popular evening of women’s storytelling, “Island Women Speak,” featuring seven island women ages 20 to 85, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Stonington Opera House. The women will tell their stories live from the stage. Debbie Weil is directing …
ELLSWORTH — For several decades now, the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Maine has been providing theater-goers with the musical equivalent of comfort food to help see us through the dreary mid-winter months. And really what could be more delicious in this season of hard-packed snow and treacherous ice than to enjoy our friends and …
BLUE HILL —George Stevens Academy’s combo Jam Bake placed third last Saturday at Berklee College of Music’s annual Berklee High School Jazz Festival in Boston. The festival is the largest of its kind in the United States, drawing more than 200 high school jazz ensembles. “It’s an exhilarating moment as a music educator anytime you …
ORONO — Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s members appear in local halls and churches from time to time like stray egrets, accompanying various chorale concerts and theatrical productions with their violins, woodwinds, brasses and timpani. But it is another thing altogether to see and hear their lovely song in their natural habitat.Last weekend I had such …
