LAMOINE — More than 60 audacious characters from the fictional town of Spoon River in Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology” will take the stage at 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27, at the Lamoine-Bayside Grange Hall. The production will continue at 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 2-3 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4. Presented …
ELLSWORTH — Like any dowager turning 80, The Grand is planning to celebrate its birthday in style. On Sunday afternoon, Oct. 14, the Ellsworth performance venue will host a concert by another octogenarian, singer-songwriter Noel Paul Stookey. The concert “was Noel’s idea, I believe, to tie the two 80 years together,” Stookey’s publicist Joyce Hall …
Review ORONO — The Bangor Symphony Orchestra opened its 123rd season Sunday afternoon with a concert of works by Bernstein, Ravel and Sibelius. Music Director and conductor Lucas Richman remarked that this was probably the first time a BSO performance had begun with the strumming of an electric guitar — the introductory chord of “Simple …
ELLSWORTH — About 15 or so kids ranging in age from say 4 to 13 years old have assembled themselves into three small groups on The Grand’s stage. They are orphans in training, ready to start learning a new dance number for the musical “Annie,” opening Friday, Oct. 12. Well, not quite ready. “I need …
ELLSWORTH — Selections from Schubert and Dvorak will be served up by the Forelle Trio at the Ellsworth Community Music Institute’s Midday Concert at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, at the Gen. Bryant E. Moore Community Center. Admission is free. Formed last year, the trio includes violinist Richard Hsu, cellist Noreen Silver and pianist Phillip …
ORONO — Alon Goldstein, considered one of the most original and sensitive pianists of his generation, will perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. as part of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s first 2018-2019 season concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, at the Collins Center for the Arts. Opening the concert, French-born mezzo soprano Joëlle Morris …
ELLSWORTH — More than 100,000 movie-goers in over 300 cities spanning six continents will vote starting Thursday, Sept. 27, and in the following days for their favorite of the nine short films picked from 1,565 entries in the 2018 Manhattan Film Festival. In its 21st year, the festival gets going at The Grand — among …
BUCKSPORT — Award-winning Boston filmmaker and journalist David Schwab Abel’s documentary “Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds” is among more than a dozen films showing on Friday-Sunday, Sept. 28-30, at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport. In its third year, the International Maritime Film Festival’s Grand Prize for Feature Films went to …
Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman are hard acts to follow. But A.J. Mooney and Alekzander Sayers, who play the iconic roles of cougar housewife Mrs. Robinson and rudderless, young college graduate Benjamin Braddock in the Penobscot Theatre Company’s production of “The Graduate,” do their damndest to put their own mark on these characters.
BLUE HILL — The Maine Arts Commission recently awarded a $2,300 project grant to Blue Hill Bach to cover the cost of its standing-room-only production of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” The chamber opera was performed last July at David’s Folly Farm in Brooksville. Part of the 2018 Blue Hill Bach Festival, the “Dido and …
