country music band will perform at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, at Mixers in Sabattus. Band members are Rick Mailhiot on drums, Jeff Levesque on multiple instruments, Kent Kramer on vocals, David Perreault on bass, and Troy Hanscom on guitar. TWM play a new type of modern country and are considered high energy. There is […]

“Unveiled,” written by Malik, uses women’s stories of racism, hate crimes, love, Islam, culture, language and life to reveal what it means to wear the veil. Directed by Ann Filmer, the play premiered in May 2009 at the 16th Street Theater in Illinois, where it was critically acclaimed and sold out the entire run. Since […]

PORTLAND — Warm as summer sunshine, real as the truth, intimate as a long overdue visit between old friends … such is a Jonathan Edwards concert. At 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, Edwards will perform at One Longfellow Square. Four decades into a stellar career of uncompromising musical integrity, the man simply delivers, night after […]

Gaslight Theater’s season of biddies, bodies, bombshells and boo Gaslight Theater has announced its 2014 season. Mornings at Seven by Paul Osborn directed by Bruce Hertz A story of four aging sisters living in a small midwestern town in 1038, this play deals with the ramifications within the family when two of the sisters begin […]

AUGUSTA — The “Concerts at Jewett” series sponsored by University of Maine at Augusta College of Arts and Sciences and UMA Senior College will feature classical pianist, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, at UMA Jewett Auditorium. Lopez has been featured across the globe as recitalist and soloist with orchestra. He received critical acclaim for […]

PORTLAND — Portland Ovations will bring Sing-A-Long-A Grease to Merrill Auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1. Sing-A-Long-A Grease is an entertaining winter diversion featuring the classic film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Haven’t you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be a T-bird or a Pink Lady but never quite felt […]

“American Idiot” features the music of Green Day with the lyrics of its lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. The book is by Armstrong and Michael Mayer and direction is byTony Award-winner Mayer (“Spring Awakening”). The acclaimed creative team also includes choreography by Olivier Award-winner Steven Hoggett (“Black Watch”) and orchestrations and arrangements by Pulitzer Prize-winner […]

GARDINER — Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center on Water Street will present Samuel James – Guitar Man at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8. James is in a class by himself. Among the most creative guitar players performing today, this blues-based singer/songwriter has dazzled audiences around the world for the better part of a decade. A […]

Arborea will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, at Guthries on Middle St. in Lewiston. The band, composed of Maine-based wife-and-husband duo Shanti and Buck Curran, is currently touring in support of its latest album “Fortress of the Sun.” ‘s music has calm beauty, rough edges, and speaks eloquently of life’s precious moments, about the […]

“Escape From Tomorrow,” “Bettie Page Reveals All,” Maine-made “The Hanover House” top early movies in diverse group LEWISTON — The Lewiston Auburn Film Festival has released the names of the first dozen films to be shown during its fourth annual festival, to be held April 4-6. “I am thrilled by these first films,” said festival […]