SOUTH PORTLAND – “Beakman Live!,” the wacky, educational, live-on-stage show based on the Emmy Award-winning children’s educational TV series “Beakman’s World,” is coming to South Portland High School on Saturday, April 25. The show, featuring actor and performance artist Paul Zaloom, is geared toward children ages 5 to 10. Presented by PCA Great Performances as […]

GREENE – The Downeasters, a barbershop chorus, will perform Thursday and Friday, April 16-17, at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial. Admission is free. Doors will open one hour before the shows at 7 p.m. Thursday and at 2 and 7 p.m. Friday. For more information, call 946-5311.

AUBURN – “… IN CONCERT – THE THREEPEAT” will be presented Sunday, April 19, at Court Street Baptist Church as a benefit for youth programming and the community food cupboard. Musicians who’ll perform beginning at 6 p.m. include Mitchell Clyde Thomas, Community Little Theatre and Calvary Methodist Church; Peculiar People, featuring Ryan Bryant, Lisbon Falls […]

PORTLAND – The Maine Jewish Film Festival will present “Four Seasons Lodge” in honor of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, Tuesday, April 21, at the Portland Museum of Art. The film will be shown for free at 6 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. In the words of Fran Lask, 82, a survivor […]

‘Robin Hood’ with a twist King’s Bridge Theatre will present “The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood,” filled with G-rated Monty Python-esque hilarity and all the favorite characters of the infamous legend – and then some. The theater’s fledgling Youth Company will take the stage with its debut performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A clothing company known for its racy ads is fighting a $10 million lawsuit brought by Woody Allen, arguing that it can’t have damaged his reputation by using his image because the film director has already ruined it himself. The 73-year-old Allen started the fight against American Apparel Inc. when he […]

PORTLAND – Maine’s inaugural African Film Festival highlighting the state’s changing face and increased cultural diversity will be held April 17-24. Its lineup includes independent films, documentary features, short films, children’s animations, lectures, music and photography. A series of panel discussions will examine the impact of oil on the environment, being African in Maine and […]

LEWISTON – As a member of the Seacoast Guitar Society, Jim Gallant was a featured artist in its first fingerstyle compilation CD.More recently, his song, “The Don,” about the 1941 maritime tragedy that claimed the lives of 28 people from Mexico and Rumford, is being used in an upcoming PBS documentary about the tragedy.Gallant will […]

AUBURN – Joe Wong, who was scheduled to make his national TV debut this week on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” will headline comedy night Saturday, April 18, at the Fireside Inn & Suites. The Letterman show was taped Monday and is slated to run Friday. Wong will be joined by two New England […]

“C’etait tres bien” is what everyone who attended “Les Dragons de Villars” the French opera presented at the Empire Theatre last evening has to say of the performance. A fashionable audience filled the theatre and expressed its appreciation by frequent and loud applause. The solos of Miss A. Labranche and Mrs. Louise Bitter were the […]