It’ll be all things baseball Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27, when the Lewiston-Auburn Community Little Theatre presents “Diamonds,” a musical revue that is both playful and thoughtful – with a lot of history. The family show, a fundraiser for the theater, will be performed as written in the 1980s, except for a poem director and […]

April 24: AUBURN, Mary Murphy, jazz and blues pianist, will perform at 6:30 p.m. at Holly’s Own Deli and Wine Bar, 84 Court St. 333-3041 April 24: CARTHAGE, Talisker will perform British and Celtic music at 7 p.m. at Skye Theater, 2 Highland Drive. $10 562-4445 April 24, 25: GREENE, Erica Brown and the Bluegrass […]

LEWISTON – Work will begin immediately to enlarge and improve the Atwood Hotel on Main Street. This step has become necessary on account of the increasing business under the management of P.R. Nevens who for the past several years has been proprietor of this well-known Lewiston hostelry. The building is owned and the improvements will […]

AUGUSTA – It costs a dollar to kiss a girl in this city against her will, according to a sentence meted out by Judge Maher of the Augusta municipal court at a session tonight, to John Cripps, a Russian Pole. The complainant was Mary Pitzky, an Austrian, and Cripps was arraigned on the charge of […]

LEWISTON – From a 6- by 8-foot suspended kite, 40-inch photographs and a 7-foot embroidered wall piece to a string of books each less than 1-inch high and some tiny paper bees, the new exhibit at the Atrium Art Gallery is a study in scale and imagination.The ingenious works are by 17 artists who teach […]

AUBURN – After a one-week absence, stand-up comedy returns to The Fireside Inn & Suites Saturday, April 26, courtesy of Dave Rattigan, a popular Boston comedian who performed in the original comedy show at the inn in March 2007.Rattigan heads up a four-comedian show that also features Jon Rineman, Emily Singer, and Corry Pelsor. Showtime […]

Go and doWHAT: “The Glass Menagerie”WHO: Oxford Hills Music and Performing Arts AssociationWHEN: Remaining shows are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 24, 25 and 26, and at 2 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27.TICKETS: $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and children 12 and under. Call 743-5309 or visit www.ohmpaa.org. Hometown […]

LEWISTON – Even as the academic year winds down, musical offerings at Bates College reach a crescendo in May with a string of concerts, including a performance by the renowned Borromeo String Quartet, a program of South American music by a trio that features two Maine musicians, and the high-powered pairing of cellist Alisa Weilerstein […]

FARMINGTON – Elegant ladies, dapper men and more puns and absurdity than you can shake a cucumber sandwich at mark the Sandy River Players’ production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.”The classic comic farce will run Wednesday, April 30, through Sunday, May 4, at Alumni Theater on the University of Maine at Farmington […]

GORHAM – Peter Martin will conduct the USM Wind Ensemble, the premier band at the University of Southern Maine, in a concert titled “Winds of Change” Sunday, April 27. The concert will take place at 2 p.m. in Corthell Concert Hall. Tickets are $6 for the general public, $3 for seniors and students. Call 780-5555 […]