Judy Harrison

The Bangor Symphony Orchestra threw its conductor and music director, Lucas Richman, one heck of a 60th birthday party Sunday at the University of Maine's Collins Center for the Arts.

True North Theatre's latest production, “Once Upon a Bride There Was a Forest” at the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre at the University of Maine, can't make up its mind what it wants to be.

Penobscot Theatre Company is closing out its 50th season with the cult classic “Little Shop of Horrors” through July 14 at the Bangor Opera House. It is as thrilling, in its own way, as “Mary Poppins, the Broadway Musical” was last year. This season's closer is a delightful and entertaining show that features a talented cast and crew of local folks and out-of-towners. And that toothy green puppet is to die for, literally.

Can the Bat Boy be tamed and civilized by the love of a family when the townsfolk suspect he's the reason their cattle and children are dying?

There are rousing speeches, scheming politicians, bickering friends, a sword fight or two, and a love match to give the story an almost happy ending. The period costumes and the music put the audience on the battlefields and in Henry's and his French counterpart's court in 1415, two years after he was crowned monarch.

The site is the perfect spot for Annie Baker's “The Aliens,” a three-character play that takes place behind a Shirley, Vermont, coffee shop where Jasper (Nate Marx) and KJ (John Jurcheck) spend their time hanging out, and where new employee Evan (Drew Kulbe) spends his breaks.

Soloist Jon Kimura Parker gave a stunning interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 at the first concert BSO's season.

Seventeen-year-old Ernestine is ready to take on the world as soon as she finishes helping her mother bake her birthday cake.

Portland Stage's season opener, “Conscience,” is about U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's decision to denounce on the Senate floor the tactics of Sen.

The show will follow the story of King’s novel “Salem’s Lot" but be different each night based on suggestions from the audience.