AUBURN – Charles Dickens’ unfinished mystery, now a Tony Award-winning musical comedy by Rupert Holmes, will be presented in March at Lewiston-Auburn’s Community Little Theatre.Director Mitchell Clyde Thomas, a frequent performer at CLT, has scheduled auditions for “Drood” for 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, and Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Great Falls Performing Arts Center, 30 […]

LEWISTON – For the 12th straight year, the Vineyard Church of Lewiston will welcome families to a popular Christmas event. This year’s production, once again in association with King’s Bridge Theatre, is “Nativity Live! 2008,” a reworking of the church’s original live Nativity that had its premiere during last year’s holiday season.Actors, musicians, dancers and […]

Several area students will perform with Portland Ballet in “Victorian Nutcracker” Dec. 7 at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston and Dec. 17 at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium. Among them, from left, front row, are Lily Dearing of Lisbon Falls, Heather Baxter of Lewiston, Madeline Walker-Elders of Lisbon Falls and Kiah Baxter of Lewiston. Back row: […]

Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy’s elf, is the cranky lead character in David Sedaris’ “The Santaland Diaries” to be presented Nov. 28 to Dec. 21 by Portland Stage Company. Bad Santas, naughty elves, crabby children and pushy parents test Crumpet’s last elfin nerves as he struggles to remain sane and perky amid the […]

Nov. 28: BATH, Mickey Felder will perform on the keyboard at 6:30 p.m. at Solo Bistro, 128 Front St. 443-3373Nov. 28: LEWISTON, the Distributors will perform at 8 p.m. at Schemengees Bar and Grill, 551 Lincoln St. 777-1155Nov. 28: LEWISTON, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper will perform at 9 p.m. at She Doesn’t Like Guthries, 115 […]

The new block which is being built for the National Shoe and Leather Bank of Auburn at Turner and Court streets, will be the first building constructed of reinforced concrete in the two cities. It also will be the only fire proof structure here. The floors only are built of reinforced concrete, the walls being […]

Goose and chicken bone prophets who made such positive predictions a few days ago, felt like retiring to the deep woods and tall timber Thanksgiving Day. As weather men their fame is lost, for they have been placed with other ciphers on the undesirable side of the decimal point.Those goose bone prognosticators declared on their […]

PORTLAND – For the 19th consecutive year, the Choral Art Society will present its holiday tradition, Christmas at the Cathedral, featuring the Choral Art Singers, the Portland Brass Quintet and organist Dan Moore.The concerts begin Saturday, Dec. 6, with a preview performance at noon and full concert at 8 p.m., with additional performances at 2:30 […]

AUBURN – The Lakeside Players, the student theater troupe at Central Maine Community College, will present three one-act plays about relationships Thursday and Friday, Dec. 4-5.The first show, “Scuba Lessons,” a comedy by Joseph Zeccola, is about a young woman trying to find her soulmate on a blind date at a coffee shop. The play […]

FARMINGTON – Teachers Lounge Mafia, western Maine’s new comedy troupe, is offering the gift of laughter this holiday season.The theater group will present “Stale Milk & Sour Cookies: An Evening of Irreverent Holiday Comedy” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5-6, in Alumni Theater on the University of Maine at Farmington campus.The performance features […]