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Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
Bath author tells tale of an Irish shipwreck with Maine ties
Irene Drago will share her new historical-fiction novel at Mockingbird Bookshop in Bath on Friday.
Dystopian student film imagines a darker Harpswell — in Appalachia?
After a major snowstorm shut down production of ‘The Harpswell Incident,’ the students pivoted to making a dystopian drama called ‘Days of August.’
3 Mainers win Guggenheim fellowships
Two faculty members at Bates College in Lewiston and a photographer from Rockport were among this year’s fellows.
This Maine author’s YA novel could be headed for Broadway
‘Freak the Mighty,’ by Rodman Philbrick of Kittery, was published in 1993. It will make its theatrical debut in Cleveland next month, a test run for Broadway.
UMaine professor looks for ghosts in Stephen King’s work
In ‘Monsters in the Archives,’ Caroline Bicks chronicles a year in Stephen King’s archives.
Read the poem ‘type’ by Goldie Peacock
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
More Mainers are learning to play mahjong, many from Melanie | Column
Hoping to play more while she’s here, a part-time Peaks Island resident started teaching the game. People want in.
State Theatre receives Academy of Country Music nomination
The Portland venue is one of five nominees nationwide for Venue of the Year.
6 Maine events this week include the Maine Culinary Festival in Augusta
See The Second City improv comedy troupe in Gardiner, and singer Mary Fahl in Portland.