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 …
MOUNT DESERT — Perhaps it’s best not to know any Chekhov at all, when attending Acadia Rep’s current theatrical production of Christopher Durang’s Tony Award winning play, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” because a little knowledge can be a confusing thing. As the play’s name suggests, the show’s three main characters bear the …
TREMONT — In 2015, after 36 years of serving fish chowder, fried haddock, lobster rolls, doughboys and other such fare at their seaside eatery overlooking the ferry terminal in Bass Harbor, Karen Godbot and her partner Jan Beal decided it was time to retire. When Mainely Delights did not open the following Memorial Day, it …
BAR HARBOR — For most folks, the highlights of summertime fun on Mount Desert Island are such outdoorsy delights as hikes in Acadia National Park, boating, swimming, golf or tennis. But for 50 years now, for an impressive number of local and summer folks, the big thrill of the summer season is spending several evenings …
BAR HARBOR — Fans of the excellent operas the Bar Harbor Festival has been bringing to the Criterion Theatre for the past 15 years or so have had to be very forgiving. Not of the singing, which has always been world-class, nor of the acoustics, which are wonderful at the Criterion for such live events. …
Review by Nan Lincoln MOUNT DESERT — There are some terrific stories that have been enthralling listeners and audiences for hundreds of years. Millennia, even. They have been told and retold in various forms and iterations and, somehow, always manage to seem relevant. The tale of Pygmalion is one of these. It first appeared …
