Opera House Arts’ critic-in-residence Alicia Anstead, center, with scholar Margery Irvine at right, will facilitate two community-wide reads of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, along with two post-show Talk Backs, as part of this year’s Shakespeare in Stonington production July 18-28. STONINGTON — Shakespeare in Stonington founding director Julia Whitworth will return July 18-28 to Opera House Arts […]

LEWISTON — Making their seventh appearance at the Bates Dance Festival, Doug Varone and Dancers will perform stunning new works including “Carrugi” and “Able to Leap Tall Buildings” as well as the company’s signature work “Rise.” From the smallest gesture to full-throttle bursts of movement, Varone’s dance can be breathtaking. Since its founding in 1986, […]

LEWISTON — The top floor of the Lewiston Public Library will resound with the singing of strings and the patter of feet at 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 12, when musicians from age 11 to “ageless” gather to play for an evening of old-time New England dancing in Callahan Hall. The action will kick off with […]

Five public concerts to feature 26 acclaimed performers and composers PORTLAND — The Portland Chamber Music Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary season Aug. 8-17 at the Abromson Center on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine. PCMF is well known locally and regionally for its outstanding, vibrant performers and imaginative programming. Highlights […]

POLAND SPRING — The Poland Spring Preservation Society has announced that the award-winning trio Denny and Anne Breau and Frank Coffin will perform as part of the summer concert series at 7 p.m. Monday, July 22, at the All Souls Chapel. Denny Breau, an inductee in the Maine Country Hall of Fame, is well known […]

“The Orphan Train” by Christina Baker Kline FARMINGTON — Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck or chance. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, […]

will perform at 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, July 12, at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road, Greene. Admission is free. The doors will open one hour before shows. For more information, call 207-946-5311 or visit www.mollyockettchorus.org.

STANDISH — Meredith Willson’s rousing musical “The Music Man” comes to the stage of the Schoolhouse Arts Center from July 18 through August 4. Return to the quaint streets of River City, Iowa and enjoy the wonderful dance routines, spirited voices, and the adventure of summer romance. Watch Harold Hill try once again try to […]