AUGUSTA – The “Concerts at Jewett” series will feature the DaPonte String Quartet at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, in Jewett Hall Auditorium.The program will feature Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with guest clarinetist Karen Beacham of the Nordica Trio. Mozart’s Quartet in F and Beethoven’s Quartet No. 13 in B flat will also be included.Mozart wrote […]

HALLOWELL – Folk singer and songwriter Cindy Kallet will perform at 8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, at Slates Restaurant.Kallet is a nationally touring folk musician who’s been writing music and playing guitar since she was 11. She has released five solo albums.She also has built a fan base of audiences of all ages and occupations.She […]

By Noah Davis,Special to Encore The 1990s have come and gone, and while once hit bands such as Limp Bizkit and Staind are no longer as popular, their contemporary Korn is still going strong. The genre-bending group whose rock sounds helped define the latter half of the decade will play the Colisee March 26, along […]

By Chris Hewitt,Knight Ridder Newspapers By the time “The Pink Panther’s” klutzy Inspector Clouseau gets through with France, it is French toast.A remake/continuation of the Clouseau character played – let’s face it – perfectly by Peter Sellers in several films seemed like a lousy idea, even with Steve Martin on board, but darned if it […]

PORTLAND – Due to a scheduling conflict, the band Staind has changed its Feb. 4 show at The State Theatre to Wednesday, Feb. 22. Tickets for the Feb. 4 show will be honored on Feb. 22. For those unable to attend the rescheduled show, tickets may be refunded at point of purchase.

MONMOUTH – The Monmouth Community Players will present the musical “Into the Woods” March 17-26.This popular musical is an amalgam of several familiar fairy tales, including “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Red Ridinghood,” “Cinderella” and “Rapunzel.” James Lapine’s witty script and Stephen Sondheim’s music examine the relationships between the characters, and what happens after the […]

WINTHROP – The Winthrop Performing Arts Center will host “An Evening with John McEuen” at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17.McEuen is a founding member of the The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, a Grammy Award and Country Music Association Award winner.McEuen, a respected multi-instrumentalist and producer, has performed more than 5,000 concerts throughout the world.He is […]

FARMINGTON – Doug Protsik will perform his original old-time piano score for the silent movie classic “It,” starring Clara Bow.The movie will be shown Friday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. in Lincoln Auditorium, Roberts Learning Center, at the University of Maine at Farmington.The quintessential flapper, Bow is captured in the movie at the height of […]

LEWISTON – Elizabeth Brady, a junior at Bates College, is directing the sixth annual Bates production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” today and Saturday, Feb. 11. Performances will begin at 7 p.m. in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.Ensler based “The Vagina Monologues” on interviews she conducted with more than 200 women […]

The tagline alone – “Show Me the Monkey!” – is enough to make you cringe with dread. Oh, no, you’re thinking. Not again. They took a classic children’s story and crammed it with pop-culture jokes and self-referential humor like so many recent animated films, simply to appeal to the adults in the audience. Thankfully, they […]