The Friends of Cumston Hall will present The Gawler Family Singers — LIVE at Cumston Hall The “Concerts at Cumston” music series kicks off its second year with the Belgrade-based Gawler Family, live at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, in beautiful Cumston Hall in Monmouth. is known for their American folk and traditional sounds, rolling […]

HALLOWELL — Gaslight Theater will produce “Promises, Promises” which is the story of a nice guy, in a world where niceness goes unnoticed and unrewarded. The story concerns a junior executive at an insurance company who seeks to climb the corporate ladder by allowing his apartment to be used by his married superiors for trysts. […]

GOOD THEATER OFFERS ‘GRAND’ GURNEY PORTLAND — Good Theater has announced the New England premiere of A.R. Gurney’s charming and funny “The Grand Manner” directed by Brian P. Allen, will play Nov. 6-24. In 1948, playwright A.R. Gurney, then a young boarding-school student, traveled to New York where he attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Antony […]

Laura Kargul, USM professor of Music and director of Keyboard Studies, will perform some of the most dazzling works written for piano by the hallowed “Three Bs.” Thrilling and enthralling, Beethoven’s “Waldstein Sonata” and Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Handel” incorporate pyrotechnical techniques that rival those of Chopin and Liszt. “I haven’t played Bach […]

Greater Purpose celebrates Christ’s life through song. Their songs are scriptural but are written based on the members’ lives, are from the heart and are meant to minister to others, both believers and non-believers. The heartfelt words, catchy melodies, and powerful, pristine lead vocals along with the supporting harmonies, acoustic guitars and keyboards are sure […]

PORTLAND — Victoria Mansion will host its seventh annual “Tales of Terror,” a celebration of the Halloween season featuring spine-tingling stories from 19th-century writers performed by local storytellers. The Mansion’s original 1860 interiors will be dimmed to gaslight levels for the evening, making the event a haunting night of history and horror. This year, “Tales […]

LEWISTON — Museum L-A will host its next Speakeasy from 7-11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at Royal Oak Room at Ironhorse Court. Patrons with passwords will be permitted to enter the Prohibition-era playground and step back to a time when jazz raged, gin flowed (illegally), and Charleston-crazed flappers danced the night away. The Colwell Brothers Band, […]

will perform at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, Sawyer Road, Greene, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in a cabaret-style mix of Broadway, jazz and pop standards. Free admission. For more information, call 207-946-5311 or visit www.sawyer-foundation.com.

Monica Wood, bestselling author of ‘When We Were the Kennedys’ to speak at Bates College LEWISTON — Monica Wood, author of a popular memoir about growing up in a small Maine town in the early 1960s, will read from and discuss her book “When We Were the Kennedys” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in […]