The policy applies to shows starting next month at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center.
Bob Keyes
Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
With feelings of triumph and trepidation, Maine audiences return
Fans enthusiastically welcome back live music to Portland, but many also worry their celebrations will be short-lived because of the latest coronavirus surge.
Longtime Maine art camp faces its future, without its founder
Following the death last year of Ruth Grauert, Bearnstow’s new leaders try to figure out how to make the Mount Vernon site sustainable going forward.
Don McLean’s daughter tells magazine she was emotionally abused by ‘American Pie’ singer
Jackie McLean spoke to Rolling Stone and released an album about her experience, which her father dismissed.
USM gets $5 million boost to build new arts center in Portland
The donation from the Crewe Foundation would support the construction of a building with a recital hall and an art gallery.
Father and son form two-person painting club, and a stronger bond
Tom and Graham Morgan of Portland have been making time to paint together and get to know each other better.
Origins of intolerance under the microscope at Maine Historical Society
Visitors can choose how to experience the ‘Begin Again’ exhibition – from the perspective of someone with or without privilege.
Robert Indiana estate settles copyright lawsuit with late artist’s patron
The lawsuit was filed in May 2018, just before the ‘LOVE’ artist died on Vinalhaven.
Portland unveils new ‘seaweed’ bus shelter
It’s the fourth art-covered bus shelter in the city paid for by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In preserving his brother’s legacy, Dan Crewe wants to complete the picture of the legendary songwriter
Bob Crewe is best known for writing hits for The Four Seasons, but his brother wants him to be remembered for his talents as a painter, too, despite their complicated relationship.