BANGOR — Truth be told, “Elf the Musical,” now playing at the Bangor Opera House, is a pretty dorky show. But, then again, that is exactly what it is supposed to be. A sort of “The Jerk” meets “Scrooge” meets “Annie” meets “Mary Poppins” mash-up, it has a completely ridiculous plot, cartoonish characters, silly songs, …
BAR HARBOR — At long last the Robinson Ballet is bringing their enchanting annual production of the Christmas classic “The Nutcracker” to the Criterion Theatre Sunday, Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. Those who have attended one of these charming performances at other venues will understand what a perfect fit this will be. The elegant old …
BLUE HILL — The New Surry Theater has once again struck gold with its suspenseful murder mystery “Laura,” now playing at the Town Hall theater. The play boasts a fine cast is led by Johannah Blackman as Laura Hunt, the beautiful murder victim and romantic interest; Bryan Lescord as Mark McPherson the handsome, brooding detective …
BAR HARBOR — I haven’t had such fun with misery since Kathy Bates crushed James Caan’s ankles with a tire iron. The Mount Desert Island High School production of “The Addams Family” has all the creepiness you could possibly want, clever writing, suspense, passion, some delicious torture interludes, loads of laughs and some terrific singing. …
BAR HARBOR — Zombies are doing the bunny hop around tombstones at the one end of the Mount Desert Island High School building. Far, far away, in the Higgins-Demas Theater, techies are up in the rafters, hovering like gargoyles over more techies on stage working on rocket propulsion systems and intriguing lighting effects. A group …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Well, it’s inexcusable. Until last week it had been about three years since I visited the Wendell Gilley Museum. The occasion last Thursday was a media event, but the added draw was an exhibition of the works of Barbara Ernst Prey, who has been exhibiting her oil and watercolor paintings on MDI …
BAR HARBOR —Well they pulled it off! After a first performance weather cancellation, the joint Barn Arts Collective and Acadia Community Theater production of Shakespeare’s comedy “Twelfth Night” opened Sunday afternoon on the sloping seaside lawn of Saltair Inn in Bar Harbor. It was a triumph on every level. Shakespeare wrote “Twelfth Night” as a …
BAR HARBOR — Imagine, if you will, that you are a young actress, who has come to Mount Desert Island all the way from Seattle, to take the leading role of Viola in one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies, “Twelfth Night,” in a production in Bar Harbor in August. In this case, it’s a joint …
Review by Nan Lincoln MOUNT DESERT — Of all Mount Desert Island’s venerable summer musical festival traditions perhaps the most genteel is the Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music. It began 55 years ago when summer resident Clara Fargo Thomas invited a select gathering of her friends to meet in the drawing room of …
Review by Nan Lincoln BAR HARBOR — In the first half of Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah,” the newly repentant Israelites beg the Lord’s forgiveness for their pagan shenanigans, and to bring rain to a land he has, in his wrath, scorched with fire and seared with drought. After weeks of no significant rain here on …
