BETHEL – “Strangers Among Us,” a play about the struggles of families facing Alzheimer’s disease, will be presented by a cast of 10 Senior College members Sunday, Feb. 8, at the Bethel Congregational Church, Garland Chapel.The public is invited. Admission is free. Donations accepted.Directed by Lynn Arizzi, the play will run from 1:30 to 3:30 […]

PORTLAND – Mad Horse Theatre Company’s Dark Night Series II – “The Actor’s Nightmare” and “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You,” by Christopher Durang – will open Monday, Jan. 26.“The Actor’s Nightmare” is inspired by the dream familiar to many performing artists – suddenly appearing in a play that they have inexplicably never […]

BRUNSWICK – The Maine State Music Theatre in collaboration with Brunswick High School will hold auditions Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 7-8, for its summer production of Disney’s “High School Musical.”Auditions for teen talent, from any area high schools, will be held at the MSMT administration building on Elm Street. The theater is looking for up […]

Ever wonder how reality shows got that name?What’s “realer”: The spectacle of a larger-than-life chef pitching fits for the camera on the Fox reality show “Hell’s Kitchen” (which returns for a new season Jan. 29)?Or “Lost,” ABC’s eerie serial that teems with reality (all sorts of realities)?Or Showtime’s tart new comedy “United States of Tara,” […]

AUBURN – Thursday, Jan. 15, is Jazz Night at Holly’s Own Deli & Restaurant. Featured will be local musicians Tim Clough on stand-up bass, Tom Schipper on drums and John Smedley on guitar. Calling themselves the 3 Point Trio, they will play many of the jazz standards and improvise their music as the evening and […]

There was a time when casting Patrick Swayze as a tough-as-nails, haggard FBI agent would have been laughable. His boyish looks and disarming charms made Swayze more suitable for films, where he danced Baby out of a corner or across the desert in drag.Life has changed Swayze. Sure, he’s older. And his very public battle […]

The much heralded waltzing contest is to be held at the Empire Theatre this evening. Many local young men and women will compete for the three cash prizes to be given. The first prize will be $5.00, the second, $3.00, and the third, $2.00.No more interesting or legitimate inducement for a lady and gentleman contest […]

LEWISTON – Pianists Shiau-Uen Ding and Jacob Rhodebeck will perform a program including music by Christopher Bailey, visiting assistant professor of music at Bates College, Friday, Jan. 23, at the college.The pair will play Bailey’s Sonata and his “Balladei,” as well as works by Christopher Fox and Morritz Eggert.The concert, open to the public, will […]

PORTLAND – The talent search is on once again for the best high-school rock band in Maine. But the 25th annual Reindeer Rock-Off, put on by Portland-based independent label Reindeer Records, is being presented for its final year.The competition is open to original high-school bands from across the state that would like their moment of […]

“American Idol,” the world’s best-known show, hardly needs an introduction, but this new season certainly does. So let’s call this one – beginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, on Fox – the Season of More.More judges. More finalists. More Hollywood rounds (one more, anyway). More backstage intimacy. More “aspirational stories.” And emerging from this […]