BRUNSWICK — Cuba Week, the annual celebration of Brunswick’s sister city relationship with Trinidad, Cuba, will run from April 20 to April 29. Presented by Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association (BTSCA), the ninth annual Cuba Week is themed around Cuba’s love of baseball. The sister-city association describes this year’s theme as follows: Cuba is known to have […]

TOPSHAM — Comedian Bob Marley has made audiences laugh until they cry on stages across the country and through television screens, having made appearance on the entire late night TV circuit. Known as New England’s King of Comedy, Marley is a Maine native who, after living in Los Angeles for several years, returned to his home […]

BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin International Music Festival’s 2012 season, which will run from June 27 through Aug. 3, will present the music of two very different composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy, plus classical, romantic and contemporary composers they influenced. Highlights will include performances by the virtuoso violinist Midori, the Ying and Shanghai Quartets, violist […]

BRUNSWICK “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World,” a new exhibition that explores the relationship between humans and animals in the Inuit world, opens today at the Peary- MacMillan Arctic Museum on the Bowdoin College campus. The exhibit will run though April 6, 2014. A release from the college describes the exhibit as follows: […]

BRUNSWICK — A Wabanaki Arts Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 14 at Smith Union on the Bowdoin College campus. The festival brings Native American artists and musicians from Maine and across New England to campus for the day. This is the fifth year that Bowdoin College will host this event […]

PORTLAND Good Theater recently announced the lineup for its upcoming 11th season, which opens this fall and continues into spring 2013. The season will kick off on Oct. 10 with the Maine premiere of A.R. Gurney’s “The Grand Manner.” The play is a tribute to the Golden Age of Broadway about Katherine Cornell, the first […]

NORTH YARMOUTH — Studio Theatre of Bath will belt out “25 Years of Rock: Billboard Hits ’ 55-’ 79” at 7 p.m. April 21 at Harmony Hall in North Yarmouth. Doors open at 6 p.m. Vince Shatto and April Purinton will host the musical journey, which chronicles 25 years of popular music. Fifteen singers and […]

DAMARISCOTTA — Heartwood Theater Company will deliver a staged reading of “Uncle Vanya,” by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, at 7 p.m. Thursday as the final presentation in a series of monthly readings in collaboration with Skidompha Library. “This classic Chekhov treasure, translated by Paul Schmidt, was reworked several times over nearly a decade, transforming it […]

BATH — Girl Power Productions will celebrate the 14th anniversary of the V-Day movement by presenting “ The Vagina Monologues: Until the Violence Stops in Victory and Joy” at 7:30 p.m. April 13 and 14 at the Chocolate Church, 804 Washington St. The cast includes Barb Bowers, Ellie Busby, Suzanne Jones, Suzanne Rankin, Bill Vaughn, […]

YARMOUTH — The Studio for the Living Arts Dance Center will present two performances Saturday at Yarmouth High School. The afternoon show will feature more than 30 numbers from young dancers in the Pulse Dance Company. The evening performance, “Dance for Autism,” will benefit the Autism Society of Maine and will include nearly 200 dancers […]