BRUNSWICK — Steven Peterson, executive director of Maine State Music Theatre, will serve as master of ceremonies for the Brunswick Rotary Club’s “Hometown Idol” talent show on April 7 at Crooker Theater in Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road. Potential contestants can pick up application forms at Riley Insurance at 139 Maine St., Shaw’s Supermarket […]

BRUNSWICK — A free screening of “Holiday,” a 1938 screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. today in the Morrell Meeting Room at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. Directed by George Cukor, the film centers on the romance that develops between Grant’s and Hepburn’s characters as […]

TOPSHAM — Mt. Ararat Stage Company will perform the musical “The Sound of Plaid: The New Glee Club Version of Forever Plaid,” today and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Orion Performing Arts Center. Tickets at the door cost $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and students younger than 18 years old. According to Music […]

BOWDOINHAM — The Merrymeeting Arts Center’s newest art exhibit opens today and is based on the theme: “Vernal Pools and the First Signs of Spring.” A reception for the artists and the public runs from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the arts center, 9 Main St. The exhibit will run until April 28. […]

BATH — Lanyard Theatre Company, which bills itself as Maine’s only professional theater troupe focusing solely on new work, is back. After remaining dark for two years, the company will present a staged reading of Kevin O’Leary’s “Lascaux,” a story seasoned with intrigue, primal ambition and a dark brand of magic-realism, on April 20 in […]

BATH — Earl Bigelow and his assembly of local luminaries collectively known as The Natives Are Restless will take the Chocolate Church Arts Center stage at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday. “This is the seventh consecutive year for this musical collaboration of song writers and musicians to gather and present their favorite tunes for performance, featuring […]

HALLOWELL — Maine musician and music teacher Adam Soosman will play a free Irish tin whistle concert from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St., Hallowell. Also performing will be Hall-Dale Middle School student William Fahy. The concert will feature traditional Irish music to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Soosman, […]

LISBON — The Squid Jiggers, a Maine Irish and maritime folk duo, will perform two St. Patrick’s Day shows at Graziano’s Casa Mia Restaurant on Saturday. Shows start at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the restaurant at the corner of Mill Street and Route 196 in downtown Lisbon. At each show, the Squid Jiggers […]

BRUNSWICK Students in fourth through eighth grades at St. John’s Catholic School will stage “Once Upon A Leprechaun,” a musical comedy, at 7 p.m. today and Saturday, as well as at 2 p.m. Sunday, at the school on Pleasant Street. “When a trio of wild and crazy leprechauns try to help tongue- tied shepherd Fin […]