BRUNSWICK – The curtain rises on the Maine State Music Theatre summer season in four months, and Steven Peterson is ready. He’s lined up the shows and hired the directors, and is making casting decisions about the season-opening production of ”Always … Patsy Cline,” scheduled to open June 9. Before then, there are a million […]

Back in her hometown of Allagash, Cathie Pelletier collaborates with other residents on a book celebrating local lore.

DWAYNE RAYMOND

Warm-hearted Mainers brave icy waters to raise money for Camp Sunshine.

Everybody knows what a tuba is. As usual, everyone is wrong. There is no clear definition of the instrument, and there are more than a dozen that have been given the name. Wagner invented two of them so he could have an eight-voice bass choir. Despite the children’s book ”Tubby the Tuba,” there aren’t many […]

This week • At 8 p.m. Saturday at Gorham Middle School, the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra will perform the premiere of ”The Lost Art of Steam Heating,” a new piece by composer and teacher Travis M. Ramsey, a 2003 alumna of the University of Southern Maine — for orchestra and two cast-iron radiators. Yes, radiators. […]

Tim Burton is back in theaters on March 5 with ”Alice in Wonderland” but, unlike the filmmaker’s ”Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” this bookshelf adaptation veers from its namesake source material in major ways. We spoke about that and other matters with 20-year-old Aussie newcomer Mia Wasikowska, who has the title role in the film, […]