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  • Arts Calendar: June 19 to July 2

    Greater Portland Auditions/Calls for Art Monday 6/24 “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” open casting, 6:30 p.m., Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland, celeste.m.green@gmail.com. ...

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    Tuesday, June 18, 2013

  • Out & About: Music festivals in Portland, Brunswick, New Gloucester

    Three music festivals are slated for summer’s opening week. The first is the three-day International Piano Festival. Under the aegis of the Portland Conservatory of Music, IPF runs this weekend in the Port City. That's followed a few days later by the Maine Festival of American Music...

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, June 17, 2013 at 12:00 pm
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  • Out & About: Icons of American musical theater

    Two very different evenings of musical theater, one in Portland and one in Gorham, top my personal preferences over the next week. The first happens Friday, when Portland Ovations presents George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” one of America’s few true masterpieces of opera....

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 11:20 am

  • Arts and Entertainment Calendar: March 31 - April 11

    Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art  Call for Art, Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, seeking design submissions for its 2010 holiday card and candle wrap collection; send designs in jpeg format...

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    Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:50 am

  • Out & About: Bluegrass, mandolin meet jazz, classical

    Unconventional collaborations in music and dance underlie several of the top performances during the upcoming week. For starters, Portland Ovations and the Portland Symphony Orchestra are teaming up to bring mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile to the Port City for a pair of appearances this weekend.

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, March 22, 2010 at 12:50 pm

  • Arts and Entertainment Calendar: March 24 - April 4

    Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art  Call for Art, Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, seeking design submissions for its 2010 holiday card and candle wrap collection; send designs in jpeg format...

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    Monday, March 22, 2010 at 10:50 am

  • The Great Outdoors: Hiking Arrowsic's Squirrel Point Lighthouse Trail

    For an outstanding spring hike offering one of the best river views in Maine, consider a walk out to Squirrel Point Lighthouse in Arrowsic on the eastern shore of the Kennebec River. The one-mile trail starts at the end of the Bald Head Road and leads through forest and marsh to the light....

    Michael Perry • Lifestyle •
    Monday, March 22, 2010 at 10:40 am

  • Portland Symphony's Moody sees adventure in upcoming season

    PORTLAND — The Portland Symphony Orchestra recently announced the lineup for next season, including several new commissions, genre-bending performances and throwback Pops concerts. "I enjoy a kind of adventure with programming," PSO Music Director Robert Moody said. "Everyone is on a...

    Emily Parkhurst • Lifestyle •
    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 4:20 pm

  • Arts and Entertainment Calendar: March 17 - 28

    Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art  The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust is accepting artist submissions for Paint for Preservation 2010, the juried Wet Paint Auction to be held on Sunday, July 18;  submit...

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    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 1:20 pm

  • Out & About: Modern dance company prances into Portland

    Portland Ovations continues its string of topnotch offerings with two intriguing programs within the week: a contemporary dance troupe and a showcase for tomorrow’s top classical musicians. Dayton Contemporary Dance Company is an African-American group that’s been performing ar...

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:40 am
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