Bob Keyes

Staff Writer

Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.

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Published
May 29, 2012

Holiday traffic oozes out of Maine

Vehicles are backed up for miles, but don’t blame the York tollbooths, some say.
Published
May 27, 2012

Arts Planner

The Portland Museum of Art brings a touch of Europe to its galleries this summer with its latest exhibit.
Published
May 27, 2012

Theater director is reeled back in by lure of Maine and Monmouth

It was an offer she could not refuse. But almost as soon as Dawn McAndrews moved to Washington D.C., she longed to be back in Maine.
Published
May 27, 2012

Sexy 60: Maine art museum celebrates big birthday

With a cutting-edge new show, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art enters its seventh decade.
Published
May 24, 2012

‘Always … Patsy Cline’ in Ogunquit

Crazy. That’s what you’d have to be to miss ‘Always … Patsy Cline’ and the rest of Ogunquit Playhouse’s 80th anniversary summer lineup.
Published
May 24, 2012

Simple twist of fate brings The Bob Band together

The band performs Friday at Buck’s Naked BBQ in Freeport and Saturday at The Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport.
Published
May 24, 2012

Tennessee Williams’ ‘Camino Real’ opens short run at Lucid Stage

The back story of Tennessee Williams’ “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real” is almost as interesting as the play itself. The great American playwright wrote “Camino Real” in New Orleans in 1946, in between “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.” He was in New Orleans working on “Streetcar” when he wrote this unusual […]
Published
May 20, 2012

Arts Planner

• June LaCombe Sculpture at Hawk Ridge Farm, 90 Minot Road, Pownal, begins its spring and summer exhibition season with “Steel and Stone” featuring work by Roy Patterson and Stephen Porter. The group show also includes works by Anne Alexander, Lise Becu, Wendy Klemperer, Cabot Lyford, Jesse Salisbury, Melita Westerlund and many others. The opening […]
Published
May 20, 2012

Bound by a love for Monhegan

For a major summer exhibition, the Farnsworth Art Museum pairs a couple of artists — Rockwell Kent and Jamie Wyeth — with a shared love for Monhegan island, especially for a particular house on its rocky shore.
Published
May 20, 2012

‘The soul’ of UMO art gets prestigious honor

He’s not sure how, he’s not sure when and he’s not quite healthy, but Michael Lewis says he’ll paint again.

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