BRUNSWICK – It’s story time again at The Theater Project.Al Miller, artistic director, will be back Friday, March 27, with stories new and old, appropriate for ages 8 to 80.You may come in and listen for free, or you can make a contribution to The Theater Project. People are urged to bring canned or boxed […]

LEWISTON – Maine veteran blues guitarist and vocalist Kevin Kimball will perform from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at Little Dan’s BBQ on Main Street.On Friday, March 20, Kimball and the Steeldrivers will play at Shooters at 347 Lisbon St.Kimball plays a mix of traditional and classic blues that includes the songs of […]

LEWISTON – With wild leaps from tender romance to outrageous drunken lust, “The 13th of Paris” takes its audience at The Public Theatre on a theatrical roller coaster ride.This relatively new play by Mat Smart is having its third-ever production in Lewiston continuing Thursday through Sunday. The six-character cast is outstanding; the imaginative set works […]

BRUNSWICK – The Theater Project will hold its 2009 benefit auction Saturday, March 28, at the Brunswick Golf Club.Cocktails, complimentary hors d’oeuvres and silent auction will begin at 6 p.m.The live auction, run by professional auctioneer Charlie Crosby, will begin at 7 p.m.Items up for auction include a helicopter ride over Merrymeeting Bay, a Chinese […]

YARMOUTH – A collaboration of intergenerational orchestral musicians will come together to perform symphonic pieces ranging from Dvorak to Schubert and Kabelevsky to Scarlatti Sunday, March 22, at the Yarmouth Performing Arts Center.Kleinsinger’s “Tubby the Tuba” will delight young and old in this classic fairy tale of tributes to the unsung hero. This performance will […]

LEWISTON – The Lewiston High School Music Association will host the University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers in concert Tuesday, March 24, at the Franco-American Heritage Center.The performance will feature more than 150 students from Buckfield, Edward Little, Lewiston and Oxford Hills Comprehensive high schools in a concluding number with the USM Chamber Singers.The concert, […]

PORTLAND – In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn’s birth, Portland’s Choral Art Society will perform his “Elijah” oratorio Tuesday, March 31, at Merrill Auditorium.Local composer and Bowdoin professor of music Elliott Schwartz will present a lecture in the auditorium before the concert.Born and raised in New York City, Schwartz studied composition at […]

Struck by the 3:49 p.m. train as it was entering the upper Maine Central station yesterday afternoon, little Veronica Gillespie, the 8-year-old daughter of M. B. Gillespie of Summer Street, Lewiston, sustained a fracture of the skull and has an even chance of recovering. The accident occurred just before 4 o’clock. Little Veronica was on […]

FARMINGTON – Pianist Eric Himy will perform “Gershwin in Paris,” a program of compositions by Gershwin, Debussy and Liszt, Saturday, March 28, at the University of Maine at Farmington.Tickets are $6-$8; anyone under 16 admitted free.The concert, presented by the Arts Institute of Western Maine, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Nordica Auditorium in Merrill […]

BUCKFIELD – The Oddfellow Theater will present the band Skosh, a blend of rock-funk and acid-jazz with a full-scale visual performance Saturday, March 28. The band placed third in the state in the Reindeer Records annual Rock-Off.Every Skosh show features a trio of drums, electric guitar and bass with an occasional trumpet-playing gorilla.The music is […]