While sitting in The Harbor Theatre minutes before the technical screening of “Unbroken” began, I was thinking about the trailers I'd seen for the film on TV, and wondering if I'd seen all of the…
Film and Theater
The Lincoln County Community Theater production of “The Mikado,” at the Lincoln Theater, has had to reschedule its opening night from Thursday, March 5 to Friday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m.
One of…
The Harbor Theatre
“Still Alice” features Julianne Moore at Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor. As she starts becoming lost on her daily jogs, she must come face-to-face with…
The nationally recognized and award-winning documentary, "Miss Representation," will be shown at The Strand Theatre in Rockland on March 7 at 2 p.m.
"Miss…
Maine State Music Theatre (MSMT) will hold local auditions for local adults and performance interns on Saturday, Feb. 28…
The Harbor Theatre
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash…
An enthusiastic crowd of cabin fever breakers — 65, to be exact — appeared, pre-blizzard, at the …
Third Annual
For the third year running, the FARMS Community Kitchen will host a free weekly showing of a baker’s dozen of documentary films that compellingly make the case that all of us should pay a lot more…
The Harbor Theatre
“American Sniper,” is the story of Chris Kyle, U.S. Navy SEAL and the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle serves four tours of Iraq with only one mission:…
Resurgence Dance Company
Dancers have to dance.
The challenge for dancers ages 18 and older is finding a studio or company to dance with.
Ashley Steeves loves to dance, to create and to dream.
Although…
Maine institutions and individuals are getting on the bandwagon to divest their portfolios from fossil fuels. To join with others around the world and celebrate Global Divestment Day “Vittles and…
Film Review
The sound of gunfire, shouting, exploding grenades — this is the soundtrack of the soldier. It is a soundtrack that accompanies them home, ingrained in memory, along with visuals they may wish…
Nick Erickson is doing something many have dreamed about, but for any number of reasons, never did.
Eri…
At The Harbor Theatre
“The Imitation Game”: In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi…
Thirty Midcoast youths (grades 3-8) will perform “The Neverending Story” this weekend.
This Heartwood/AOS93 collaboration will be presented at the Parker B. Poe Theater, 81…
At the Theaters
The Harbor Theatre
“The Imitation Game” is an historical thriller about British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, portrayed by Benedict…
Live Theater
Thirty Midcoast students, grades three through eight, are spending their winter afternoons in rehearsal for a one-act version of “The Neverending Story,” based on the novel by Michael Ende,…
The Harbor Theatre
“Into the Woods” is a modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, the film intertwines the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the…
Maine State Music Theater (MSMT) is thrilled to announce “Sister Act” as the second show of the much-anticipated 57th season.
The show run will be June 24 to July 11.
“‘Sister Act’…
The Chocolate Church Arts Center and Studio Theatre of Bath (STB) present a 35th anniversary production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” by Tennessee Williams. Performances are April 10-12 and 17-19…
The Performing arts class at Boothbay Region High School will be performing the classic radio play, “The Lone Ranger” on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. in the auditorium.
The script is from an…
Winter Cabaret is sketch comedy at its best — the funny, frantic, slightly bawdy sort you've come to love from The Theater Project. This group, acting, improvising and laughing together for over a…
Portland Stage Company and Maine College of Art (MECA) have recently announced a new partnership to offer a Theater Arts Track during MECA’s three-week residential Pre-College Program…
At the Theaters
The Harbor Theatre
“Into the Woods” is a musical fantasy directed by Rob Marshall, (Chicago) and adapted to the screen by James Lapine from his and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award–winning…
The Public Theater will present The 24 Hour Plays: A Bennington Alumni Tribute to Nicky Martin, on Monday, Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. The benefit will bring Bennington College alumn, including Emmy, Tony…
Everyone has a story. And Peter Southwick believes that he can find something interesting, and worth sharing, about anyone.
Southwick…
Movie Review
I wish.
That's how many of our personal fairy tales begin. With one short phrase.
It happens that way for the characters created by the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, but for them,…
Lincoln County Community Theater (LCCT), the resident theater company at Damaricotta’s Lincoln Theater, continues its series of semi-staged concert performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas…
The Harbor Theatre
“The Theory of Everything,” based on the memoir “Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” by Jane Wilde Hawking, stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity…
Resurgence Dance Company’s “We Are Rebels” will premiere at the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Jan. 17 and 18 at 7 p.m. This full length, contemporary ballet features electronic beats, anime…
Film Screening
What better way to start 2015 than by joining others in the Midcoast for an optimistic and entertaining film about climate change that features visionary citizens like “the wind farmer” and “the…
Organizers for the eighth Hot Chocolate Jubilee are recruiting acts and chorus members for the 2015 production of this popular community variety show, which is a fundraiser for the Chocolate…
Start the new year with "Calendar Girls" (2003, 2 hrs. 12 min.) at Skidompha Library’s “Movies Just For Us” on Monday, Jan. 5. This winner of the 2003 British Comedy Awards stars Helen Mirren and…
Last week Sony Pictures pulled the plug on the national release of the latest film teaming up Seth Rogen and James Franco, “The Interview.”
It was bad enough for Sony Pictures' when its…
Members of the Y Arts Alumni will come together for a one night only concert, Friday, Jan. 9, to support the program they grew up in.
Performing alumni include Courtney Chaney, Sophia Thayer…
The Harbor Theatre
"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” brings the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves to an epic conclusion.
Having…
Lincoln Theater recreated, live on stage, The Lux Radio Theater version of The Miracle on 34th Street on Dec. 20.
If you missed the production, you can still listen to the show online here…
The Harbor Theatre
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” is the epic final installment of J. R. R. Tolkien's “The Hobbit” trilogy. Having reclaimed their homeland from the dragon…
The Harbor Theatre
“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” The epic third and final installment of J. R. R. Tolkien's “The Hobbit” trilogy. Having reclaimed their homeland from the…
Lincoln Theater will recreate a live production of The Lux Radio Theater's “Miracle on 34th Street,” on Sunday, Dec. 20 at 2 and 7 p.m.
Lux Radio Theatre was a long-run classic radio…
Movie Review
The first time I read “The Hobbit,” sometime during my senior year of high school, circa 1973-74, I remember crying as I closed the book. J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth was a place I longed to…
The Chocolate Church Arts Center turns the holiday spotlight on family entertainment with the theater production of “A Fairy Tale Christmas Carol.” The cast of 10 adults and 20 kids from the local…
Leave the kiddos at Grandma’s or find them a play date.
Studio Theatre of Bath President April Purinton calls ‘Twisted Christmas,’ a “festive evening full of stress-busting, mood-lifting…
The Harbor Theatre
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, part 1,” which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the…
The Harbor Theatre
“Birdman” or “The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance” Michael Keaton stars as Riggan Thomson (Keaton), is producing an ambitious Broadway production that he hopes will…
The Harbor Theatre
“Birdman,” or “The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,” stars Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Andrea Riseborough. This dark comedy tells the story…
Lincoln Theater is pleased to announce some upcoming special holiday events for the entire family, offering several ways to enjoy and celebrate the season.
The Big Apple Circus' new show, “…
Heartwood Regional Theater Company, in collaboration with AOS 93, presents Winter Drama Adventure 2015, “The Neverending Story.”
All midcoast students in grades 3 through 8 are invited to…
Masters of Ceremony Roosevelt Bishop and Bruce Harris invite the community to the Boothbay Region YMCA on Dec. 5 at 5 p.m. for the first ever Y Arts Singathon. Y Arts youth and local artists will…
“Birdman” is, without question, the best film you will see this year.
You may have heard about the insecurity of actors, how fragile their egos are and how hungry they are to be acknowledged…
