HEBRON – Hebron Academy Middle School will present “Once Upon A Pandora’s Box” a comedy by Monica Flory, Friday and Saturday, March 6-7, in the academy’s Lepage Lecture Hall.The 7 p.m. performance in the theater in Treat Science Building is free and open to the public.“Once Upon A Pandora’s Box” tells the tale of five […]

PORTLAND – Robert Moody will lead the Portland Symphony Orchestra in a Ravel, Schubert and Poulenc concert performance, featuring Ray Cornils as organ soloist, Sunday, March 15, at Merrill Auditorium.The concert opens with Maurice Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye (Cinque Pièces Enfantines) Suite (Mother Goose Suite), based on a series of five fairy tales and initially […]

LEWISTON – Members of the Broad Street Trio will return to Little Dan’s BBQ on Main Street Friday, March 6. Music kicks off at 8:30 p.m. and ends at midnight.Dining patrons can enjoy easy listening live music and are always welcome to sing along, something that often happens when the trio performs.Making up the Broad […]

On Friday, March 13, the First Universalist Church of Auburn will celebrate the third anniversary of its Open Mic/Poetry Slam. The free monthly show has become a forum for musicians, poets, belly-dancers, trick dogs and dancers of all ages. Above, Drew Heinonen and Jason Moreau strum up a duet at a recent open mic. The […]

PORTLAND – Focused on the theme “The Diaspora Experience: What it Means to be From Away,” this year’s Maine Jewish Film Festival explores Jewish culture in features, documentaries, drama and comedy.Besides Portland, screenings will be in Lewiston, Waterville and Biddeford.Opening night is Saturday, March 21, with a showing of the heartwarming coming-of-age story “Max Minsky […]

POLAND – The Poland Players will hold auditions Tuesday and Wednesday, March 10-11, for its production of “Our Town,” Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about life in a small town.The show will be performed May 14-17 in the Dr. Robert Wall Theatre at Poland Regional High School, 1457 Maine St.Auditions for performers of all ages […]

PORTLAND – A principal innovator of modern jazz guitar, John Scofield has expressed himself in the vernacular of bebop, blues, jazz-funk, organ jazz, acoustic chamber jazz, electronically tinged groove music and orchestral ensembles – always with ease and enthusiasm.The world-renowned guitarist, who’s set to release his 36th solo album called “Piety Street” in late March, […]

When Dotty (Janice O’Rourke) reveals she cannot pay for services rendered, Zena (Patricia Buckley) cannot contain her anger and resorts to violence in the Portland Stage Company’s production of “Out of Stern.” The zany comedy about life, love and self-image opened March 3 and runs through March 22 at 25A Forest Ave., Portland. Wide-eyed innocence […]

PORTLAND – For the first time, the Portland Museum of Art is exhibiting work by the close-knit group of artists who have been active on Maine’s Cranberry Isles for the past 50 years.“Art of the Cranberry Isles” explores the close relationship between these artists and their love of the natural topography and people of the […]

NEW YORK – Laurence Fishburne says he and his new show are “a natural fit.”Well, it isn’t exactly a new show, of course. Now in its ninth season, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” is one of TV’s most durable hits and a Thursday fixture at 9 p.m.But recently this CBS drama finessed a tidy personnel transition, […]