Maine State Music Theatre closes its 60th season with “Singing in the Rain,” a classic musical based on the classic 1952 film. This stage production is a multi-faceted buffet of high-quality entertainment. For the audience, it’s two hours of delightful, colorful, mesmerizing, joy-inducing, kinetic artistic stimuli. Like a living, breathing kaleidoscope. One moment red-carpet glamour, […]
2018
Young pianist opens Franco season with Glazer tribute
LEWISTON A 17-year-old pianist will headline the fourth annual Frank Glazer Memorial Steinway Concert at Lewiston’s Gendron Franco Center at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Ksenia Kostelanetz was born in Indianapolis to a musical family of Russian immigrants, and started playing piano at age 4. Her family lives in Wisconsin, but spends summers in Maine. During […]
Rockland library to show ‘Hairspray,’ celebrating film’s 30th anniversary
ROCKLAND Rockland Public Library will show “Hairspray,” the classic film by John Waters, on at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. When Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teen played by Ricki Lake, auditions for a spot on a popular teen dance show, she beats out the spiteful Amber von Tussle, played by Colleen Fitzpatrick, winning over Amber’s boyfriend in […]
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I’m dating my grammar school and high school sweetheart, “Gary.” We’ve known each other since I was 6. (I’m 33 now.) In high school we dated for nine months and were in love, but he told lies to my dad, so Dad ordered him to stay away. Now, 16 years later, after being […]
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FRI/17 MISCELLANEOUS LIFE HAPPENS OUTSIDE FESTIVAL, noon, L.L. Bean, 95 Main St., Freeport. Gear raffles, exhibitors, kayaking, Pint Night and Maine Outdoor Film Festival. FMI, visit lifehappensoutside.org. AUTHOR TALK: ELAINE POVICH, 4-5:30 p.m., Mustard Seed Bookstore, 74 Front St., Bath. Author Elaine Povich will talk about her new book, “John McCain: American Maverick,” and share […]