Culture

Maine State Music Theatre (MSMT) in Brunswick and The Public Theatre (TPT) in Lewiston are partnering together for the first time to bring “Grease the Musical” to The Public Theatrestage. 

Peggy Farrell

The “Still Life/Wildlife” art show. The show features new work by oil painter Will Kefauver, and the work of  29 juried guest artists.  The show runs until June 30. Five…

Green Lion Gallery, Bath
Olga Merrill

Abstract photographer Olga Merrill opens her first solo show “Spirits and Secrets” at the Green Lion Gallery in Bath on Friday, June 21.  It will be on display through July 14.  There will be an…

National Theatre Live is celebrating its 10th birthday and The Lincoln Theater is bringing seven of their smash-hit plays from the National Theatre’s stages to the big screen…

Kris Sandoy

Markings Gallery, 50 Front St., Bath is pleased to present an exhibit by local fiber artist Kirsti Sandoy, “Trek Botanica: A Contemporary Expression of an Ancient Craft Fiber Art” through June.  …

Martha LaMarche

River Arts in Damariscotta is featuring Martha LaMarche in a West Gallery show from June 13-26. Martha’s large, abstract paintings fill the space with exciting color and wonderfully imaginative…

The Halcyon String Quartet

On Saturday, June 22 at 7 p.m., Halcyon will present a concert that uses music and imagery to  celebrate…

Peter Southwick

During a journalism career that spanned three decades, photographer Peter Southwick produced images that appeared in publications around the world. As a staff photographer for the Associated Press…

Ammi Bai Chung

Midcoast residents and fellow travelers are invited to celebrate the summer solstice 2019 with artist Ammi Bai Chung at Gallery 87.

Inspired by Midcoast Maine's wild and beautiful…

Chats With Champions
Richard Blanco

Noted poet and author Richard Blanco will appear at Lincoln Theater to read from and talk about his newest book of poems, “How to Love a Country,” Tuesday, July 9 at 7 p.m. This special…

HARBOR THEATER

185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ www.boothbaycinema.org

“All Is True” -  The year is 1613,…

There is still time to register for Heartwood’s 17th session of Summer Camp for students entering grades 3-8,  July 16-25 (enrollment for the older students’ camp is already at…

Midcoast Conservancy
Primo Cubano at Live Edge Music Fest

Save the date: Sunday, August 11. Midcoast Conservancy is happy to announce the seventh annual Live Edge music festival at Hidden Valley Nature Center. It’s a fun-filled day of live music, great…

Maine State Music Theatre

What can one say about a musical offering that has no plot, no discernible characters, and no particular theme, except for the music of Duke Ellington and a lot of jazz and tap dance?

Well…

Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival is celebrating our 52nd festival at the Litchfield Fairgrounds, 30 Plains Rd., Litchfield. The festival grounds have a big stage that was built in 2010, Indoor…

An invitational show on the coast of Maine at Down East Gallery, 146 Boothbay Road/Route 27, Edgecomb.

This special show, features the work of 13  highly accomplished tapestry artists from…

On Thursday, June 13 at 10 a.m., Skidompha Library and Chats with Champions will have as its speaker, Alex Myers who will speak about his book, “Revolutionary.” It is a fascinating retelling of…

Jeffrey Miller, a master blacksmith and historian from Waldoboro, will demonstrate his trade at Lincoln County Historical Association’s Chapman-Hall House in Damariscotta on Sunday, June 16 from…

Barbara Burt

Nine workshops for writers, each focusing on a different topic, ranging from "What Are You Really Writing About?" to "Pathways to Publication,” at The Merry Barn Writers' Retreat, 417 River Rd.,…

 Douglas Houle

Art at the Grill’s summer season opens with a mixed media show, Monday, June 10. Damariscotta River Grill hosts Lonie Ellis, Douglas Houle and Rebecca Shorb, who share their experience of Maine…

Bay Chamber Concerts and Music school is very proud to announce that Josie Davis, originally from Waldoboro, will be joining their staff as advancement officer. Josie brings tremendous skills and…

Wiscasset Elementary School will have the annual End-of-the-Year Sing-Along in the WES gym at 1 p.m. June 17. The WES Chorus will perform and all students (pre-K-fifth grade) will join them for…

Gerd Koehler

River Arts in Damariscotta invites the public to the opening reception of the “Members’ Show” on Friday, June 7 from 5-7 p.m. Over 100 artists have convened from all over the state of Maine for…

This summer from July 27-Aug. 4, nine Maine stone sculptors — two guests from Japan, a Greek sculptor now living in the Canadian Maritimes, and two Maine College of Art students — will be creating…

 

A self-guided journey led by the art lover’s desire to exercise their imagination.

The renovations are complete and the Merry Barn in Edgecomb is opening its doors for the first of many community events. Community Writes! will be held this Sunday, June 9, at the…

HARBOR THEATER

185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ www.boothbaycinema.org

“Aladdin” -  A thrilling and vibrant live-…

The Old Academy on Warren Street in Wiscasset was bursting with good cheer and lively chatter Saturday evening at the opening of the Maine Art Gallery’s show of work by 15 of its members. The show…

A delightful show, “Lift Off,” debuted at the Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta May 31 and June 1, as the Boothbay Region Y-Arts Youth presented three performances of Joel Biron’s newest musical.…

Wilder York, 14 months, of Bath got to check out Wiscasset’s castle on the water Saturday, Historic New England’s (HNE) Castle Tucker, with parents Monica Finley and Ryan York. New to the area,…

Choral music fans in the Midcoast region have a chance to hear some wonderful new and old music this weekend, as the Tapestry Singers perform a concert of music composed entirely by women…

It’s a DaPonte kinda summer already! We just passed Memorial Day, the definitive beginning of the summer season. The snow birds are coming back, the guest cottages are filling, the beach…

The latest exhibit at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine will feature a collection of the artifacts that have been given to the HHRC over the years and compiled in…

Maine Maritime Museum
Schooner Mary E

Beginning June 5, Maine Maritime Museum is excited to offer sailing trips aboard the 1906 schooner Mary E., the last surviving schooner built on the Kennebec River, was…

Three enterprising young men have opened a new restaurant on Pier One in Boothbay Harbor called Taka Mediterranean Bar & Grill and they mean business!  A thousand tiny lights on the ceiling…

Maine youth author Dr. Steve Burt

Wells-based novelist Steve Burt, who pastored the Edgecomb Congregational Church 1998-99, is at it again — getting young adults and adults alike to not only accept the unbelievable, but to love it…

Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

Early June brings three musical friends and talents together to the stage at the historic Opera House in Boothbay Harbor. On Sunday, June 2, Ellis Paul teams up with Abbie Gardner and Seth Glier…

Tapestry Singers will present their spring concert, “Infinite Circle of Song,” at St. Patrick’s Church in Newcastle on Saturday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 9, at 5 p.m…

Pemaquid Art Gallery

The Pemaquid Group of Artists has juried Barbara Vanderbilt of Whitefield and Belva Ann Prycel of Damariscotta, into permanent membership. John Butke, a Boothbay resident and Kimberly Skillin…

Harbor Theater
“Almond Blossom,” 1890 -Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh never traveled to Japan, but he was fascinated by Japanese art and culture, and likewise, the Japanese were fascinated by him. On Friday, June 7, 2 p.m. at the Harbor Theater…

From Magnolia Pictures and Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, a new film “Woman at War” comes to the…

Works in painting, drawing, textiles, sculpture and photography by members of the non-profit Maine Art Gallery Wiscasset will be presented at an opening reception on Saturday, June 1. Terry Heller…

The Skidompha Secondhand Book Shop in downtown Damariscotta is now open on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through August.

According to Rosie Bensen, co-manager of the shop, “We usually…

Carlo Albucci 2019

Carlo Albucci paints his dreams. Born and raised in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, he was taught by the nuns and priests and they have an active role in those dreams.

His dreams are…

HARBOR THEATER

185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ www.boothbaycinema.org

Now open 7 days!

“Aladdin…

Chocolate Church Arts Center

The Chocolate Church Arts Center in partnership with Shakespeare on the Kennebec present Shakespeare’s hilarious comedy of mistaken identity, “Twelfth Night” at the Chocolate Church Arts Center,…

MSMT  - Olivia Wenner photo

Maine State Music Theatre (MSMT) presents Robin and Clark’s “Snow White.” This 50-minute musical version of the fairy tale runs June 12 and June 15 with performances both days at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m…

Wiscasset schools’ music and art departments presented the annual Spring Gallery of the Arts on May 9 and 15. The evening of May 9 featured an informal art walk-through and a concert featuring all…

Castle Tucker piazza -  Historic New England

Celebrate the start of summer at Historic New England’s annual Open House at Castle Tucker and Nickels-Sortwell House on Saturday, June 1. Free guided tours will be given at each house on the half…

Rising Tide Co-op

For the month of June, colorful images of paintings and mixed media compositions inspired by the majestic American Chestnut tree will be on exhibit June 2-29 at the Rising Tide Co-op in…