http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ en-us bkeyes@pressherald.com 2009-04-28T13:57:54-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040846.html BRUNSWICK -- Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday for the 51st season of Maine State Music Theatre, which opens June 3 with the Tony Award-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza." Other musicals on tap for the summer... 40846@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Maine State Music Theatre 2009-04-28T13:57:54-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040792.html I couldn't resist the opportunity to see Bruce Springsteen last night in Boston, the first of a two-night stand for the Boss in Beantown. He delivered, as he almost always does. The show was almost exactly what you would expect... 40792@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Bruce Springsteen 2009-04-22T10:20:49-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040743.html The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has a new director. Kevin Salatino, who has served as head of the print and drawings department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, was named director on Friday, succeeding Katy Kline. He... 40743@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Bowdoin College Museum of Art 2009-04-18T15:28:55-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040700.html In a ceremony at The Juilliard School on April 29, Bowdoin International Music Festival founder Lewis Kaplan will receive the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded by President Horst Kohler and and... 40700@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Bowdoin International Music Festival 2009-04-15T09:19:41-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040606.html The Portland Museum of Art Biennial yielded a big booty for the museum's collection, and a nice reward for Maine-born installation artist Wade Kavanaugh. At a reception for members on Tuesday night, the museum announced four prizes for artists in... 40606@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Portland Museum of Art 2009-04-07T20:18:31-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040559.html AUGUSTA -- Alison Ferris, the former curator of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, was named assistant director of the Maine Arts Commission today. Ferris spent 12 years at Bowdoin. With the state arts agency, she primarily will oversee human... 40559@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ 2009-04-03T13:56:17-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040533.html I had lucky pleasure of attending the first preview performance of "Trying" at Portland Stage Company on Tuesday night. This has the potential to be a major crowd-pleaser, based on the instant standing ovation the two-member cast received after the... 40533@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Theater 2009-04-01T17:20:16-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040384.html Portland jeweler Stephani Briggs will be in New York this weekend, showing a necklace she recently completed featuring 18- and 22-karat gold and natural Mississippi River pearls. The necklace will be auctioned at a charity event that is part of... 40384@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Maine crafts 2009-03-20T17:19:19-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040302.html In the "Further Evidence the Economy Stinks" category, I give you PORTopera. The Portland opera company, which for 14 years has presented first-rate opera productions once a summer at Merrill Auditorium, is scaling back this year, fearful of being engulfed... 40302@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ PORTopera 2009-03-13T14:34:02-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040237.html The Ogunquit Museum of American Art has a new director, at least for the time being. The museum's board of directors have announced that Ron Crusan will take over as interim director. Crusan has more than 20 years of arts... 40237@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Ogunquit Museum of American Art 2009-03-09T09:19:44-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040175.html In February, 17,839 people attended the Portland Museum of Art, eclipsing the previous attendance record for the month. In February 2000, 17,519 people showed up to see an Ansel Adams photography show. This February, the major exhibition was "Backstage Pass:... 40175@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ 2009-03-03T10:59:08-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040098.html "Says You," the popular syndicated radio show, returns to Camden on March 28-29. Led by Richard Sher, "Says You" is broadcast on 130 public radio stations. Audience members will be present for two live tapings, which will air at a... 40098@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Radio 2009-03-02T11:25:23-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/040052.html I ran into Brian Allen, co-founder and artistic director of Good Theater, at Sunday's final performance of "Is There Fat in That?" at the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center. Many theater and performance venues are fearful of the economy,... 40052@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ 2009-02-23T16:04:51-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/039493.html I had the great honor of speaking at the Scholastic Art Awards this past Saturday, hosted by Heartwood College of Art in Kennebunk. The annual awards honor exceptional work in grades 7 to 12 in the visual and literary arts... 39493@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Scholastic Art Awards 2009-02-09T17:10:53-05:00 http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/039092.html Anita Stewart and her artistic companions at Portland Stage Company were rightfully nervous before the opening of "Peer Gynt" on Friday. The show has been in rehearsal since Christmas, and Stewart described it as the most ambitious play the theater... 39092@http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/keyes/ Theater 2009-01-31T08:13:41-05:00