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My Morning Jacket headlines the weekend festival in Bangor, which features more than 40 national and local music acts.

Light-hearted love tale plays out against Bacharach backdrop

Larry McKenna set out to write a musical based on the music of Barry Manilow. But as he got into the process, he realized he liked the music of Burt Bacharach much more. “Burt Bacharach was my idol,” said McKenna, who is in Maine this week to oversee the run of his musical, “Burt & […]

Inspired by violin CD, dancer plans to make her move

Karen Montanaro will unveil her new dance piece, ‘The Journey,’ on Saturday at the Celebration Barn Theater.

Public art on Maine oil tanks moves closer to world record

The fourth and fifth oil tanks will feature the design of the Art All Around contest winner.

Good call

Why would a world-renowned painter illustrate a children’s book about the death of a family’s dog? For starters, the writer picked up the phone.

Barbara Walsh figured the worst that could happen was he would say no.

Dance collaboration in a corral

As part of the Bates Dance Festival, humans and horses — all of them hoofers! — will interact with unbridled unpredictability in a performance piece called ‘UN/Stable Landscape.’

Bigger bite of the Bard

The Freeport Shakespeare Festival gives audiences more comedy for free this year and more choices in productions.

Ballet partners with baritone for Schumann’s ‘Poet’s Love’

Robert Schumann’s song cycle “Dichterliebe,” or “The Poet’s Love,” has been performed, recorded and studied for many generations. Its popularity proves the timelessness of the work, as well as its relevance to the human experience. Generation after generation come to this monumental piece of music in an attempt to connect in a fresh way. This […]

Author Q & A: A Marin of Letters

Debra Balken’s book focuses on the beloved American painter’s late career, when he worked mostly at his Down East home.

Arts Planner

THIS WEEK • Maine State Ballet in Falmouth collaborates with baritone Aaron Engebreth and pianist Alison d’Amato to present “The Poet’s Love,” a song cycle composed by Robert Schumann in 1840. Maine State Ballet artistic director Linda MacArthur Miele created the work with Engebreth and d’Amato, who co-direct the Florestan Recital Project. The ballet fuses […]