RUMFORD – “Bye Bye Birdie,” a four-time Tony Award-winning Broadway show, including one for Best Musical, will be presented March 20, 21 and 22 as Mountain Valley High School’s spring musical production.The play enjoyed a successful run of more than 800 performances before being made into a hit movie starring Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, […]

FARMINGTON – In honor of National Women’s History Month, the University of Maine at Farmington Women’s and Gender Studies Center program will present a benefit performance of the play “The Vagina Monologues.”Performances will be at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 21-22, at Nordica Auditorium, UMF Merrill Hall.Created by Eve Ensler in support of women’s […]

Lewiston man will make his debut in area as stand-up comic. AUBURN – Boston comedian Tony Moschetto will return to headline Comedy Night Saturday, March 22, at The Fireside Inn & Suites. He will appear with Mike Whitman and Bill Picard, a Lewiston comedian making his area debut.Moschetto’s offbeat and sometimes risqué style prompted a […]

PORTLAND – Popular Irish singer Daniel O’Donnell will bring his blend of country music, inspirational ballads, 1960s pop and Irish standards to the Cumberland County Civic Center Tuesday, June 3.He has been featured on seven nationally televised PBS specials in the United States, including 2007’s “Daniel O’Donnell Can You Feel The Love,” and has a […]

TOPSHAM – Everything from fiddles and flutes to banjos and bones will rattle the rafters at Mount Ararat Middle School and the Orion Performing Arts Center when the 2008 DownEast Country Dance Festival takes place there Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29.While some of the music is just for listening, the vast majority serves to fuel […]

PORTLAND – The University of Southern Maine’s Evenings at Abromson series will continue Thursday, March 27, with a comedy show presented by the Maine Hysterical Society.Three veteran comedians will focus on Maine characters, performing original songs and juggling, while taking stabs at life in Maine. They will present wacky tales and tunes, including an audition […]

PORTLAND – The Maine Jewish Film Festival, which has labor as its theme this year, will open Saturday, March 29 and runs through April 6. The opening night film is the Mexican comedy “My Mexican Shivah.”Nine of the 22 films that will be screened during the nine-day run explore the Jewish experience of labor, highlighting […]

BUCKFIELD – Oddfellow Theater will host its first Odd-Shorts Film Festival, a collection of entertaining, family-friendly short films presented in a late-night talk show format.Michael Miclon, host of the theater’s “The Early Evening Show,” and veteran cast member and physical comedian Matthew Tardy will emcee the 7:30 p.m. performances Friday and Saturday, March 21-22.“This show […]

NORWAY – Mary Ukelady Hargreaves, who performs on guitar and on acoustic tenor and concert ukuleles, will present two spring concerts.Saturday, March 22, she will be at the Norway Memorial Library, 258 Main St., from 11 to 11:30 a.m. and from noon to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, she will be at the Paris Public […]

ST. LOUIS – The 3,500 union employees in the St. Louis breweries were notified this afternoon to strike as a result of a factional quarrel in Beer Drivers’ Local No. 43. The call for the strike was issued by officials of the International United Brewery Workers of America after a fruitless conference with the representatives […]