CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has released the lineup for its Points North Documentary Forum. Now in its sixth year, the Forum has quickly become the largest…
Film and Theater
Camden International Film Festival
Watch two scenic films
LINCOLNVILLE — Josh Gerritsen will present a free program on drones and aerial photography on Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Lincolnville Community Library.
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ROCKPORT — The Everyman Repertory Theatre will host a question and answer session with the cast and crew of its latest main stage production, the Maine premiere of the comedy Vanya and…
Camden International Film Festival
CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced its slate of feature and short films for the tenth festival taking place …
Midcoast Actors’ Studio
BELFAST — Midcoast Actors' Studio has announced its cast for the upcoming 'Neil Simon's Plaza Suite.'
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the…
Friday Night Flicks
BELFAST — In September, the Belfast Free Library’s film series, Friday Night Flicks, will remember Robin with showings of four of his performances. While his major hits such as Mrs. Doubtfire…
ROCKPORT — The Everyman Repertory Theatre presents its latest main stage production — a Maine premiere — the comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the Camden…
CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), considered among the top 12 documentary film festivals in the world, turns ten next month (September 25 to 28) and is currently seeking…
THOMASTON — The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library Presents Friday Night film series, 7 p.m.
September Films: Bacall and Bogart
SEPT. 5 To Have…
Eclectic, mystic, inspiring music, poetry and dance
CAMDEM: On Wednesday, Aug 27, and Thursday, Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m., Leap Dance Theater will present, “Sky Hunter,” an inspiring performance featuring the poetry of the great Sufi mystic Rumi. The…
Premiers at Flagship Cinema on Friday
THOMASTON — Producer and star Bill McLean, a lifelong resident of Poland and Auburn had a pivotal chat one day with his 18-year-old son, Ben, about a very serious subject — zombies.
“My son…
CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has partnered with AJ+, the new digital platform from Al Jazeera Media Network that commissions original, innovative and…
CAMDEN — The Rolling Stock Company, a commedia dell'arte troupe following the style and formats of Italian traditional country theater, will perform Pantalone for Governor in the Camden…
BELFAST - Midcoast Actors' Studio will wrap up its comedic production of the musical Nunsense this weekend, with performances Friday and…
Production in Rockland and Rockport
ROCKPORT — The number of cameras focused on Midcoast Maine will ramp up this autumn as one entirely new TV…
CAMDEN — Passes to the 2014 Camden International Film Festival are now on sale through the organization's website, www.camdenfilmfest.org/attend. The tenth annual Camden International Film…
Belfast - Midcoast Actors' Studio presents Nunsense, the hilarious musical spoof about the misadventures of five nuns trying to manage a talent show, August 1-10 at the Unitarian…
CAMDEN — Massive inflatable balloons and two birthday cakes marked the beginning of the Camden Opera House’s 120th anniversary celebration that will continue through the rest of the…
On PBS
ROCKPORT — A documentary on Andre the Seal and Harry Goodridge is scheduled to be aired on PBS, Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 8 p.m…
Belfast Public Library
Page to Screen – Irish style
On Tuesday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m. the 1992 film version of Roddy Doyle’s bookThe Snapper will be shown at the Belfast Free Library as part of the Library…
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Who are you? Where are you from? What do you do?
Audience members at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor Friday, July 18 may be asked these questions when Paula Poundstone brings her brand of…
BELFAST – Midcoast Actors' Studio announces the cast and crew of its next…
BOOTHBAY — All of your favorite fairy tales will come to life when the Boothbay Playhouse performs the Tony Award winning musical Into the Woods.
The brainchild of…
CAMDEN — The Camden Opera House celebrates its 120th anniversary this year with a summer and fall list of events brimming with concerts and shows.
Opera House manager Kerry Hadley said…
BELFAST — More than 200 people visited Colonial Theatre Friday, June 13, to watch friends, family, and sometimes themselves, dance in Belfast's ode to the popular Pharrell Williams' song…
Informational event produces no firm plans, but offers some clarity
BELFAST - A group of 25 people met at the former Crosby School on Wednesday under the general premise of discussing the future of the building. The event was organized by representatives of the…
May 23, 24 Show features tales from Hans Christian Anderson
ROCKPORT – The Rockport Dance Conservatory will take to the Camden Opera House on May 23, 24, at 6:30 p.m. for the seventh Annual Spring Showcase, Snow Queen, featuring the tales of…
What’s that film crew doing?
CAMDEN — The beautiful and poignant novel Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, is now being made into a television series, courtesy of HBO. Freelance filmmakers were in downtown Camden…
Tess Gerritsen claims she's owed $10 million from movie profits
LOS ANGELES - Best-selling author and Camden resident Tess Gerritsen has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros., alleging that the movie Gravity was based on one of her books by the same…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
The synthesis of music, comedy and technology, AudioBody’s performance is an electronic journey into an unknown realm of seriously spectacular entertainment. Featuring an explosive mix of sibling…
Director/actor Ellie Busby of Waldoboro has been bringing V-Day benefit performances of Eve Ensler's play, “The Vagina Monologues” to local stages for 14 years. This year the show will be at The…
A look at the nexus of money, politics and power
ROCKLAND — Two Maine showings of the HBO documentary film Toxic Hot Seat will take place this weekend, March 29, in Portland, and March 30, in Rockland. They are both free and feature the…
Thursday, Friday evening shows at Strom — a whole lot of energy
CAMDEN — Thursday evening, March 27, and Friday evening, March 28, Camden-Rockport Middle School will Broadway music, The Spirit of Broadway, at the Strom Auditorium at Camden Hills…
Blog, photo galleries
ROCKPORT — As the Oceanside High School cast gathered for warm-ups before a performance at the Class A Maine State Drama Festival, their director passed a question around the room. "What line…
Waldo Theater
“The Vagina Monologues,” Eve Ensler's masterpiece, is based on interviews with 200 women the world over about their sexuality, and with those who had experienced domestic violence in their lives.…
Maine Film
“Catatonk Blues,” filmed on Monhegan Island, in Rockland and in Augusta last fall, is “rounding second and heading for home,” according to director-writer-producer Bob Mrazek. He expects a final…
Midcoast creative short film series continues March 7
ROCKLAND — They’re short and they pack a punch, and Friday, March 7, the Farnsworth Art Museum and The Strand Theatre present the first 2014 installment of their ongoing creative short film series…
ROCKPORT, Maine and HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — My daughter and I have just returned from the trip of a lifetime! But before I get started with all the glitzy details, Emma and I would like to thank…
BOSTON, Mass. — Earlier this week, Penobscot Bay Pilot readers learned that Jessica Manbeck, wife of Seth Silverton, had won a prize package that included a spot for two alongside the red carpet…
Bath
Curtains rise and fall on theatrical productions throughout Midcoast Maine. In Bath, that venue is the oh-so-medieval Chocolate Church Arts Center.
In 1845, architect Arthur Gilman designed…
Maine State Music Theatre will hold local auditions on March 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 22 Elm Street in Brunswick. MSMT is seeking local adults ages 16 and over for the following shows.
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‘The films are inspiring, educational, sometimes emotional/controversial, entertaining and fun!’
CAMDEN — For outdoor lovers and fans of extreme sports and mountaineering escapades, this is the 14th year Maine Sport Outfitters has brought the Banff Mountain Film Festival to Camden. With the…
The Waldo Theatre successfully completed two sets of musical theater classes in 2013, which culminated in an Autumn Revue and a Holiday Revue. We at the theater are excited to be working on this…
The Waldo Theater
The Waldo Theatre in Waldoboro will kick off the 2014 season with The Threepenny Opera. Audition dates are Jan. 4 at 11 a.m., Jan. 5 at 4 p.m. and Jan. 6 at 6 p.m. at the Waldo Theater.…
Sold-out free show included hundreds dressed as characters from the 1920s-era series.
ROCKLAND — Despite the freezing cold temperatures Saturday night, Dec. 14, hundreds of locals, many in 1920s period garb, gathered at the Strand Theatre for the Season 4 premiere of the cult-…
Bielenberg’s adapation puts a new twist on the classic tale
BELFAST – Jacob Marley’s ghost will haunt the Troy Howard Middle School ‘cafetorium’ this December as John Bielenberg’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol comes alive, courtesy of the Midcoast Actors…
A jammed poetry slam occasions something new
BELFAST - On stage at the Playhouse Theater, Jacob Fricke prepared to recite a poem with his hands behind his back. It would be a challenge for “an inveterate hand talker,” like himself…
It's tough being an ogre...
ROCKPORT — It’s tough being an ogre. Add a donkey who won’t shut up, half-pint prince, a fire breathing dragon and a princess who needs rescuing and you have all the ingredients for a first-…
Elephants, royalty, dragons and a storybook end
BELFAST - Chinese-style dragons, knights, princesses, a giant sausage and a pair of elephants rolled into downtown Belfast behind a light rain, Saturday as part of the annual Church Street…
