The Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine is offering a variety of performances throughout the 2019–20 season. November events will include a musical adaptation of popular TV show “The Office,” a concert from a Canadian orchestra with a global focus, a performance by country singer-songwriter Marty Stuart and more. Touring production […]
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Events at the University of Maine were mentioned in a Bangor Daily News roundup of things to do in eastern Maine the weekend of Oct. 26–27. The article mentioned the School of Performing Arts production of “Rumors,” a classic farce by Neil Simon, as well as Homecoming. The BDN cited the football game with tailgating, […]
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The Maine Edge reviewed the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ production of Neil Simon’s farce “Rumors.” Directed by Julie Arnold Lisnet, lecturer of theatre at UMaine and founding member of Ten Bucks Theatre Co., the production is staged in Al Cyrus Pavilion Theatre and will run through Oct. 27. In the play, a […]
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with master illusionist Lyn Dillies ahead of her Oct. 18 show at the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts. The award-winning magician has been performing for more than two decades. She told WABI she loves performing for people of all ages and being able to entertain families with a […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts brings Neil Simon’s “Rumors” to the Al Cyrus Pavilion Theatre beginning Friday, Oct.18. The show is the first mainstage production of the SPA 2019–20 season, and will run for seven performances: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18–19 and Oct. 25–26, 2 p.m. Oct. 20 and 27, and 10 a.m. […]
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Four Wabanaki Artist Showcases will be held this fall in the Maine Indian Gallery of the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine. Frances Soctomah, a Passamaquoddy basketmaker, will be the featured artist 2–3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16. In November, Penobscot Butch Phillips will share his birchbark art 2–3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6. Penobscot James […]
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The Maine Edge previewed a University of Maine School of Performing Arts production of “Rumors,” a classic farce by Neil Simon, in a roundup of local fall theatre events. A group of friends is assembling to celebrate the 10th wedding anniversary of Charley and Myra Brock — but Charley has been shot in the ear, […]
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Susan Smith, assistant director of the intermedia master of fine arts program at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the Morning Sentinel article “Artwork from children in detention camps coming Saturday to Waterville.” Mary Dunn, a retired teacher who traveled to the border to bear witness at child detention facilities, is organizing a traveling […]
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The New Hampshire Union Leader reported on a Portsmouth art exhibit by Andy Mauery, associate professor of art at the University of Maine. Mauery said her exhibition “devolve” is an emotional call to action on behalf of endangered species, and that she created an ode to nonhuman species that people can’t seem to stop destroying. […]
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A new Maine Medical Arts & Humanities in Medicine Fellowship is being offered through a collaboration between the University of Maine and Northern Light Health. Doctors who complete their residency requirements at Northern Light Family Medicine and Residency in Bangor will have the opportunity to obtain a certificate of advanced learning from UMaine through the year-long fellowship. […]
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