Arts & Entertainment

Published
February 28, 2010

‘Crazies’ remake filmed with Sadistic precision

”The Crazies” rocks. This remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 biological warfare shocker is a trim, taut, terrifying essay in homespun horror. If Pa in Grant Wood’s ”American Gothic” had impaled Ma on the end of that pitchfork, the scene would fit right in. The setting is bucolic Ogden Marsh, Iowa, the sort of upright […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Fan fare

Food, music and more are on the menu at a Portland Pirates benefit.
Published
February 21, 2010

This show’s got ‘SPUNK’

Penobscot Theatre's exploration of the African-American experience by an all-black cast – in observance of Black History Month – marks a first for the Bangor-based troupe.
Published
February 21, 2010

Alice shares tales from ‘Wonderland’ set

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, […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND: MECA receives three grants for Porteous Building project Maine College of Art recently received three grants to complete the restoration of the Porteous Building. The Maine Arts Commission provided $15,000 to equip Osher Hall, MECA’s 112-seat lecture hall, with Americans with Disabilities Act technology to ensure full accessibility. The Quimby Foundation supported the overall […]

Published
February 21, 2010

Arts Planner

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. […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Forget the oompahs and hear what a tuba can really do

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 […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Honan channels the worst poet ever in Portland Stage’s ‘Real McGonagall’

Portland actor Mark Honan stars in the Portland Stage Company production of ”The Real McGonagall,” on stage in the studio theater beginning at 8 p.m. Friday. The one-man show was to have opened last week, but Honan took ill and opening night was postponed. Honan portrays Sir William Topaz McGonagall, who on the eve of […]
Published
February 21, 2010

I’ll have the chilly

Warm-hearted Mainers brave icy waters to raise money for Camp Sunshine.
Published
February 21, 2010

Maine State: Transition and a fond farewell

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 […]

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