Opera Maine, the state’s only professional opera company producing fully staged and orchestrated works, launched its 30th anniversary season May 1 with a wickedly witty gala inspired by its upcoming mainstage production, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Every detail of the Ocean Gateway event was delightfully dark, from the blood red swirls […]
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Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Review: A new edition of ‘Country of the Pointed Firs’ offers reasons to return to the classic
Sarah Orne Jewett’s book hasn’t lost its relevance or beauty.
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard team up for inventive ‘Tall Tales’
‘Tall Tales’ is the first full-length collaboration between Radiohead singer Yorke and electronic music pioneer Pritchard.
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Bestsellers: ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ ‘Abundance’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Exhibits in Falmouth, Portland show surrealism’s ability to meet the times
‘John Hultberg: Angels Above Fear’ and Richard Wilson’s ‘Out of My Mind’ demonstrate the range of expression in an artistic movement that’s still fairly rare in Maine.
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Carl Hiaasen is back and as ridiculous as ever
In ‘Fever Beach,’ a rich environmentalist infiltrates a white-supremacist group led by an idiotic MAGA fanatic.
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Brandon Woody strides into the jazz world without leaving Baltimore
He’s making big moves in the jazz world — but on his splashy debut album, the young trumpeter vows to never leave his hometown.
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What ‘Conclave’ gets right — and wrong — about papal politics
The movie “Conclave” delves into the intricacies of papal politics and the election of a new pope, but how accurate is it in portraying the Vatican’s inner workings?
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Deep Water: ‘Mystery,’ by Mark Melnicove
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Meetinghouse Arts digs up history of Freeport’s working waterfront
The art gallery features the history of Freeport’s working waterfront and the contributions of its fishing and aquaculture community.