Leslie Bridgers

Press Herald

Leslie Bridgers is the features editor for the Portland Press Herald, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and culture. She spent 10 years as a reporter, half of that time for the Portland Press Herald, covering the western suburbs of Portland, writing feature stories and working on special projects. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left.

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Published
July 4, 2021

Art review: ‘Acquired Symbols’ celebrates a teacher’s far-reaching effects

A colorful show at Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset honors John Lorence through the work of his associates.
Published
July 4, 2021

Theater review: Monmouth opens with musical exchange of letters in ‘Daddy Long Legs’

The two-hour show about an orphan and her benefactor makes for an entertaining start to the season, but goes on a bit long.
Published
June 28, 2021

Indie Film: California water crisis fuels filmmaker’s work and plan to return to Maine

Falmouth-raised Emmett Brennan’s ‘Reflection: A Walk with Water’ premiered this month at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Published
June 28, 2021

Tap Lines: Why a Mainer’s brewery tour of Asheville feels familiar, yet different

The North Carolina city has a lot in common with Portland but also plenty of its own character to discover.
Published
June 27, 2021

Society Notebook: Tournament stakeholders fete return of pro golf to Maine

The Live and Work in Maine Open on Tuesday held a dinner and an auction to benefit the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.
Published
June 27, 2021

‘F9’ is under pressure to be the flick that revives moviegoing

Donna Langley, the Universal Pictures honcho who was one of the first studio leaders to delay a major movie over pandemic concerns, now has Hollywood’s hopes riding on that popcorn flick’s long-awaited arrival in theaters. “F9,” the latest installment of the Fast & Furious series, is a gut-churning visual spectacle of a film that has […]
Published
June 27, 2021

Theater review: ‘Spamalot’ hits right note for Ogunquit’s return

The zany movie-turned-musical, further adapted for pandemic times, is the first production to be staged in the playhouse’s new pavilion.
Published
June 27, 2021

Art review: Though influenced by many, David Driskell was one of a kind

His posthumous retrospective, ‘Icons of Nature and History,’ is up at Portland Museum of Art through Sept. 12.
Published
June 27, 2021

As theaters reopen, a crucial cinematic ingredient is back: the audience

WASHINGTON — “We’re home.” So goes the refrain during the rapturous final scene of “In the Heights,” which played at the Avalon Theatre for the cinema’s grand reopening last weekend. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s lyrics couldn’t have been more apt on that Saturday night, as longtime patrons hugged, fist-bumped and waved in the lobby of the elegant […]
Published
June 27, 2021

Deep Water: ‘Picking Strawberries With My Children In A Gentle Rain,’ by Frank Freeman

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

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