Arts & Entertainment

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March 20, 2011

30 years of aiming high

Portland Ballet celebrates three decades of teaching – and performing – moments with a wide-ranging 'greatest hits' show this weekend.
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March 20, 2011

Arts Planner

• Portland Ovations continues its string of bringing hit shows to Portland with “Avenue Q,” the Tony Award-winner for best musical, best score and best book. The national tour stops at Merrill Auditorium in Portland for a single performance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. “Avenue Q” is about trying to make it in Manhattan with big […]
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March 20, 2011

Boys on board for Maine State’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’

FALMOUTH — Two things that sometimes don’t mix: teenage boys and ballet. It’s time to throw that stereotype out the window. Teenage boys have starring roles in the Maine State Ballet production of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty.” Maine State Ballet will present the classical dance piece in three acts, with a running time of just over […]
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March 20, 2011

Arts Dispatches

PHOENIX, ARIZ. Indian basketmakers win major awards, best in show Three Maine Indian basketmakers won major awards at the 53rd annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market in Phoenix. Jeremy Frey of Indian Township won the coveted Best of Show Award for a piece titled “Pointy Urchin.” Frey also won best of category overall […]
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March 20, 2011

Classical Beat: Liszt bandwagon will make a stop at USM

Since it is now the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth, perhaps I should consider Ezra Pound’s thought about Walt Whitman: “I have detested you long enough.” “Detested” is probably too strong a word. When I was a boy, I played “Liebestraum” and the Hungarian Rhapsodies and attempted the Transcendental Etudes, thinking that Liszt was […]

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March 20, 2011

Signings, etc.

THREE AUTHORS, ONE EVENT
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March 20, 2011

Author Q&A: Susan Conley’s Peking Luck

Her new memoir traces on the one hand a grand adventure in Beijing with her family – and on the other, a surprise, game-changing bout with breast cancer.
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March 20, 2011

PMA exhibition features European drawings

PORTLAND – The Portland Museum of Art features an exhibition devoted to European drawings, comprised of 30 works from the museum’s permanent collection and on loan from private collectors. “European Drawings at the Portland Museum of Art” opens Saturday and will remain on view through May 22. It features masterworks by the finest draughtsmen of […]
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March 20, 2011

In The Arts: ‘Journeys’ freshens the art landscape

“Journeys to the Interior” at Addison Woolley Gallery is a rare pleasure. It brings forth the work of a reticent, at least in local terms, intellectual and beautifully accomplished painter. The artist is Robert Nason, and the show is touched by a sense of discovery. Here, on Washington Avenue, are paintings by a formidable artist, […]
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March 20, 2011

Art Review: Give emerging artists a good look

Since it is National Youth Art Month, it seems a good time to consider Maine’s “emerging artists.” Many galleries around the state take tourist-free spring as an opportunity to give emerging local artists a chance to prove themselves. Aucocisco in Portland, for example, just opened “Audition” — a completely un-ironic title for an exhibition giving […]

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