Film and Theater

Viceroy’s House

 Harbor Theater

 “Columbus”  -   Jin (John Cho), a young Korean, strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), an architecture enthusiast who works at…

Lincoln Theater

With all its selections open to the public, the 108 members of Lincoln Theater’s new Classic Film Club have chosen the movies for its inaugural…

November marks the fifth anniversary of Maine’s 2012 citizens’ initiative approving same-sex marriage and becoming the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote. To mark the…

“West Side Story,” Nov 3-11, is the first big “Triple Threat” undertaking with Heartwood and Lincoln Academy (LA), since “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” in 2008.  What makes it…

What do a rusty-patched bumble bee, Jimmy Carter and Siksika Tribe elder Treffrey Deerfoot have in common?…

“Columbus”

Harbor Theater

"It," directed by Andy Muschietti  is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel that has been terrifying readers for decades. When children…

The new Harbor Theater will be offering up to 104 movies per year when taking over operating the Meadow Mall theater this Friday, Oct. 6. And, top rated, first run films will be among them, just…

From director Andy Muschietti (“Mama”) featuring Bill Skarsgård, Finn Wolfhard, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chosen Jacobs, and Wyat Oleff, “It: Chapter…

Lincoln Academy and Lincoln Theater will screen the award-winning film “Maineland” and host a discussion with several of the Academy’s resident and day students on Wednesday,…

Earlier in September, the Maine Preservation Society announced its 19th annual "Most Endangered Historic Places" list for 2017 and the Waldo Theatre had made the list.

While this may not…

Calendar programming premieres at the new Harbor Theater (yes, that’s “er” not “re’) on Oct. 6, just five days after the non-profit, Harbor Theater (formerly Friends of the Harbor Theater),…

HARBOR THEATER

“Kedi”  -  Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they'…

Chocolate Church Arts Center

It’s tough being a magician these days. When audiences think they’ve seen everything, simply pulling a rabbit out of a hat isn’t going to thrill anyone anymore. And nobody knows this better than…

The Harbor Theater

"Logan Lucky" -  West Virginia family man Jimmy Logan teams up with his one-armed brother Clyde and sister…

Son House and Skip James

“Two Trains Runnin,’” a documentary film by director Sam Pollard, is about the search for two forgotten blues singers, set in Mississippi during the height of the civil rights…

Ray Shevenell in “The Road Home”

“The Home Road,” a deeply personal Maine story, will screen at Lincoln Theater on…

Maine Outdoor Film Festival
 Portland, ME – The Maine Outdoor Film Festival (MOFF) has announced the ten finalists of the Summer Broke and Stoked Video Contest, which premiered recently…
Heartwood and Lincoln Academy cast of West Side Story

They’re at it again this fall, more ambitious than ever!  Heartwood Theater and Lincoln Academy (LA) are collaborating for the 15th consecutive season, in a mammoth musical…

River Company is holding auditions for Eugène Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" on Friday, Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday Sept. 16 at 3:30 p.m. at LCTV Studios at 29 Sheepscot Road, Newcastle.

Harbor Theater, the newly-named non-profit organization taking over ownership of the theater in the Meadow Mall, announced this week it has signed a three-year lease with mall owner Tom Ellis,…

Logan Lucky

The Harbor Theatre

“Wind River”  -  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker (Jeremy Renner) and FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) team up to solve a murder on an Indian…

Carousel Music Theater cast 2017

The Carousel Music Theater in Boothbay Harbor has been a summer stock venue since its doors opened in 1982. The Carousel cabaret format of dinner and all-original, song-filled shows written over…

The Harbor Theatre

“An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”  -   A decade after “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate…

Maine State Music Theatre recently announced the titles that will be headlining a milestone season marking the company’s 60th year in Brunswick in 2018.

The first show of the season will…

Film review

Former Vice President Al Gore presents “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” his followup to the 2006 Oscar™ -winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” The…

On Thursday, Sept. 14, the award-winning documentary film, “A Plastic Ocean,” will be screened at the Portland Museum of Art at 7 Congress Street, followed by a panel discussion with Rockport’s…

The Harbor Theatre

“The Hero”-  Lee Hayden (Sam Elliott) plays an aging Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances…

The Harbor Theatre

“Dunkirk” - In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and…

The Harbor Theatre

“Dunkirk” - Held over one more week!  - In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air…

A local tour company that began as a Halloween season specialty and developed into a season-long offering with tours throughout Midcoast Maine has been named in second-place as…

Come have a "crazy good time with us" at  “The All Night Strut”  Aug. 15 - Sept. 15. 

Swing’s the thing in this classy, sassy musical celebration of the 1930’s and 1940’s, conceived and…

Maine State Music Theatre

If you didn’t have a chance to see Maine State Music Theatre’s (MSMT) first three shows, all of which were great, then really, really try to get to its current and final production of the…

Film review

From writer and director Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” the “Dark Knight” trilogy) featuring Mark Rylance, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Tom…

Theater review

Beware! River Company’s latest production of “Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike” is seriously funny. Yes, the Tony-nominated Christopher Durang play is well-written, but it’s the cast that really…

The Harbor Theatre

'The Big Sick" - Based on the real-life courtship between Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon. The film tells the story of Pakistan-born aspiring…

Burnt Island Living History Tour - LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register

Lighthouses have long been beacons of fascination for people in the communities in which they stand, and for visitors. Maine has 65 historic lighthouses, 59 of which are still active, more than…

From director Michael Showalter (“Wet Hot American Summer,” “Hello, My Name is Doris”) featuring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Anupam Kher, and Bo Burnham, “The Big Sick,”…

Paul Doiron

The Monhegan Memorial Library is delighted to announce a program by Maine mystery writer Paul Doiron to take place on Monhegan Island, Aug. 4-6.

A Murder Mystery Party will be held at the…

The Harbor Theatre

“Despicable Me - 3” -  They’re baaack ... The mischievous Minions hope that Gru will return to a life of crime after the new boss of the…

River Company,Maine

Christopher Durang’s tony award winning play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” will be presented by River Company on August 4-5, 11,12  at 7:30 p.m. and August 6 and 13 at 3 p.m. at…

Victoria Mansion and Acorn Productions are pleased to announce a fabulous evening of…

“Food Evolution”

The acclaimed documentary, “Food Evolution,” will screen for two performances only at Damarscotta’s Lincoln Theater on Thursday, Aug. 10, at 2 and 7 p.m.

As convenient as it may be at times to stream old movies at home on your television set, there is nothing that compares with watching classic films as they were intended to be seen, on a huge…

The Harbor Theatre

"Spider-Man: Homecoming” - Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, young Peter Parker returns home to live with his Aunt May. Under the…

Theater review

“Wella wella wella unh, tell me more, tell me more, didja get very far? Tell me more, tell me more, like did he have a car?”

I woke up this morning with these lyrics spinning in…

Christophe Herreros

It’s been just about a year since the cameras stopped rolling on the French film project, “…

From director Jon Watts (“Clown,” “Cop Car”) featuring Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Zendaya, Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr., “Spiderman: Homecoming,” now playing at The Harbor…

 The Harbor Theatre

“Baby Driver” - After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a…

Jenny Mackenzie’s documentary “Dying in Vein” screened at The Harbor Theatre last Friday, July 14 thanks to the sponsorship of the Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club.

The film follows three…

Time is running out to venture “into the Woods” with Heartwood, in the Tony Award winning book and score by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.  One of Sondheim’s most popular works, “Into the…