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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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‘Shout’ rocks Ogunquit; music festival in Brunswick

Nearly every summer theater schedule these days includes at least one "jukebox musical," and one of the best of the genre just opened at Ogunquit Playhouse. The venerable playhouse currently offers "Shout," a musical that celebrates 1960s-era British female pop singers and mo...

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Monday, June 22, 2009 at 11:10 am
Arts and Entertainment Calendar: June 24 - July 5

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Call for Art, for juried craft show hosted by The Maine Crafts Guild held Sept. 19-20 at Portland East End School, apply at www.mainecraftsguild.com, or Joelle, portland.show@mainecraft...

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Friday, June 19, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Out & About: New England premiere of ‘Suds' awash in music, laughs

Summer arrives, astronomically speaking, this weekend, and there's no place in Maine so redolent of summer stock than Adrienne Wilson Grant's Arundel Barn Playhouse, a modern reincarnation of a 19th-century farm. I was there 11 years ago this month when Grant opened the barn doors f...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, June 15, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Arts and Entertainment Calendar: June 17 - June 28

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Call for Art, for juried craft show hosted by The Maine Crafts Guild held Sept. 19-20 at Portland East End School, apply at www.mainecraftsguild.com, or Joelle, portland.show@mai...

Heather Gunther • Lifestyle •
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Out & About: Maine premiere of 'Piazza' is a must-see

We're still more than a week away from the "official" start of summer, but southern Maine's arts and entertainment organizations aren't waiting for the solstice. For them, summer is already here. Maine State Music Theatre, one of the pillars of our summer cultural scene, opened its 2...

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Monday, June 8, 2009 at 10:50 am
Arts and Entertainment Calendar: June 10 - June 21

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Call for Artists: Paint for Preservation, second annual wet paint auction held Aug. 30 to benefit the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust, must submit two samples (slides or digital images...

Heather Gunther • Lifestyle •
Friday, June 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Arts and Entertainment Calendar: June 3 - June 14

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art Call for Artists: Paint for Preservation, second annual wet paint auction held Aug. 30 to benefit the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust, must submit two samples (slides or digital images...

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Great Outdoors: Exploring the Kelsey Brook Trail in Freeport

With a variety of never-ending yard chores and home repair projects on tap, it is hard to make a guilt-free getaway up into the western Maine mountains for a day of wilderness solitude. Wilderness is nearby, however, in most southern Maine towns on a network of under-utilized trails that most p... 1

Michael Perry • Lifestyle •
Monday, June 1, 2009 at 3:00 pm