Arts & Entertainment

Published
May 8, 2011

Theater Review: One actor deftly depicts many faces of apartheid

For its recent productions, the Portland Stage Company certainly couldn’t be accused of overpopulating its wide stage with actors. Their last show, “Halpern & Johnson,” featured just two performers, and their final offering of the season has a cast of one. Of course, Stephanie Cozart, the solo star of “The Syringa Tree,” plays close to […]
Published
May 7, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Build a distinctive dinner of any size at Bar Lola

– Bar Lola, you had me at hello. Your online menu? I’m salivating before I arrive. A grazer by nature, I’m a big fan of the small-plate trend, and there’s much here I want to try. The small dining room is arranged well: a small furnished area just inside the entry; the dining area bordered […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Arts Dispatches

FRYEBURG Short-film exhibition offers program mixing old, new Asbury Shorts, New York’s longest-running short-film exhibition, will bring the Short Film Concert to the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. This is the third time Asbury Shorts has presented at Fryeburg. It screens new and classic short films at […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Arts Planner

• In June 2010, Saco artist Diane Bowie Zaitlin attended a residency at Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay. In “Point of Departure” at the Saco Museum, she provides a view of her creative process and the power of influence. The exhibition will be on view beginning Saturday through Sept. 4. A public reception […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Bob Keyes: Bowdoin student joins Freedom Rides observance

As a youngster, Anna Nutter remembers piling in the car the very afternoon that school let out and making the long family drive from Texas to Maine. Her mother, who grew up here, couldn’t wait to escape the broiling Houston heat and return home to the cool breezes of a Maine summer. Along the way, […]

Published
May 1, 2011

Arts Calendar

Art Frederick Lynch: New Work, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick. 725-8157. Today through Saturday. Through May 14. “The Lay of the Land,” work from the museum’s permanent collection, Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. “European Drawings,” portraits […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Honk if you love the bassoon

Janet Polk, principal bassoonist for the PSO, surely does -- for its distinctive sound and shapely profile -- and she's on a mission to get the rest of us to love it too.
Published
May 1, 2011

Art Review: Inspired mix puts UMaine gallery on map

Although not large, the University of Maine Museum of Art has one of the nicest gallery spaces in the state. With three fine shows and about 20 excellent works from the permanent collection on view, it’s well worth a visit. Brian Shure’s very large and highly realistic oil painting of the crowded bustle of New […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Book Review: Mining depths of Texas travels

A consummate New York writer returns to his roots without missing a beat.
Published
May 1, 2011

Moser exhibit features labor muralist Taylor

FREEPORT — A special exhibition featuring Tremont artist and muralist Judy Taylor will be on view at the Thos. Moser Showroom, 149 Main St., through May 31. The show includes new oil and gouache paintings, graphite drawings and studies for the murals Taylor was commissioned to create for the Maine Department of Labor. Gov. Paul […]

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