Arts & Entertainment

Published
June 6, 2010

Arts Planner

Maine’s summer theater season begins anew this week, as both Ogunquit Playhouse and Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick draw the curtain beginning Wednesday night. • Ogunquit opens with star power. Emmy Award-winning TV star, celebrity stylist, author and fashion designer Carson Kressley makes his theater debut in the musical “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Kressley, who has […]
Published
June 6, 2010

Scene & Heard: Helping handbags

Funds raised at Purses with Purpose go to the Ronald McDonald House.
Published
June 6, 2010

Katherine Heigl on ‘Grey’s,’ movies, motherhood

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Katherine Heigl looked like she was about to cry. Her eyes were watering, and her beautiful face contorted as if in pain. For a moment, one might have thought that she was re-living that mea culpa cover story in a national magazine in April, in which she apologized to the public […]
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June 6, 2010

Keyes: Old Port Festival is, at the end of the day, about the music

It might seem that after 30-plus years, the Old Port Festival would run itself. If only that were true. In fact, the annual festival — set for a week from today — continues to be a lot of work for the organization that presents it year after year, Portland’s Downtown District. There are ever-evolving details […]
Published
June 6, 2010

Theater review: Playhouse’s tributeto Garland poignant, moving

PORTLAND – The Old Port Playhouse opened its summer season Friday with an intimate glimpse into the life and times of legendary performer Judy Garland. “The Property Known as Garland,” written by Billy Van Zandt, stars Laura Hurd Whited as the dashing diva and Justin D. Stebbins as her stagehand, Ed. It’s primarily a one-woman […]

Published
June 6, 2010

Signings, etc.

– Massachusetts author Dennis Lehane has turned out a string of gritty novels that have been turned into gritty films, including “Mystic River,” “Gone, Baby, Gone,” and “Shutter Island.” He’ll be giving a free talk Friday night at the Rines Auditorium, in the recently renovated Portland Public Library. WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday WHERE: Portland Public […]
Published
May 30, 2010

Book Review: Talented Amis can do better than this

The self-indulgent sexual fears of a 50-year-old man do not flesh out a book.
Published
May 30, 2010

Arts Dispatches

Photographer’s estate updates, improves website The estate of Todd Webb announced a recent refurbishment of its website, toddwebbphotographs.com. The new site features images, extensive biographical text, exhibition data, collection information and a frequently updated news tab. Currently, two touring exhibitions accent Webb’s photographs. “Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art” tours Europe […]
Published
May 30, 2010

Book review: Greenlaw’s return to blue water is full of drama

Linda Greenlaw is a renowned swordboat skipper and best-selling author. When we first meet this fearless Mainer in her latest book, “Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea,” she has added an unlikely role to her resume — prisoner. Escorted in handcuffs, Greenlaw is walking to a prison cell in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where […]
Published
May 30, 2010

Books Q & A: A funny thing happened

Portland comic strip artist Lincoln Peirce lands a book deal thanks in part to a fan letter from years ago.

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