LEWISTON — Bates College will present a program of Haydn, Barber and Dvorak performed by the Larchmere String Quartet at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 31, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The Larchmere String Quartet, in residence at the University of Evansville in Indiana, is composed of violinists Timothy Kantor and […]

LEWISTON — In a program titled “Mebarung!” — a Balinese term for a sort of “battle of the bands” between gamelan ensembles — the Bates College Gamelan Orchestra will welcome the Massachusetts group Gamelan Galak Tika for a joint performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 24, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell […]

A native and lifelong resident of Waterville, Currie is known for mixing fantasy with reality, shock with hilarity and themes of huge import with close personal detail. Currie graduated from Colby College. His work has appeared in such print and online magazines as Glimmer Train, The Sun, Other Voices and The Nervous Breakdown, and he […]

At Bates College’s 2012 Inside Africa Fashion Show, sophomore Nerissa Brobbey models a Togolese boubou dress with matching head scarf. At right, Gulaid Abdullahi wears a traditional ma’awis and kofia hat. LEWISTON — Reflecting the influence of African fashion abroad as well as the diversity of the continent’s own apparel, the second annual Inside Africa […]

A play marked by “cross-dressing, sexual shenanigans, uppity servants and witty women,” in the words of one scholar, English playwright Robert Chamberlain’s 1640 “The Swaggering Damsel” reflects the preoccupations of a nation transitioning from a royal to a mercantile society. Plotlines explore the financial, moral and social conditions that encumbered romance and marriage in Chamberlain’s […]

Edwards, known for shows that one reviewer praised for their blend of “remarkable singing, storytelling and wit,” will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. He will be joined by Maine pianist Tom Snow and two Bates a cappella singing groups. The Wayne DeLano Quartet […]

LEWISTON — Bates College presents “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” a romantic comedy, in performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 7-9; at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, March 9-10; and at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 11 in Schaeffer Theatre. The storyline is driven by the romantic impulses of two young couples: Julia […]

LEWISTON — Three Bates College seniors are featured as instrumental soloists in works by Franz Strauss, Max Bruch and Wolfgang Mozart as the Bates College Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The Bates orchestra is conducted by , associate professor of music. The […]

Combining flute with electronic and computer-based music, DuoInteraktiv performs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 1. Well-known to Maine audiences, violinist Dean Stein and pianist Chiharu Naruse perform the second of three concerts surveying Beethoven’s sonatas for those instruments at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 3. Also on March 3, at 7:30 p.m. is a […]