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Here are all the reason you need to take in a show or two at The Strand: The Kids With a Bike, Bullied, Met Opera Encore: Das Rheingold, Delicacy, Wagner’s Dream, The American Life Live, Gerhard Richter Painting, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Met Encore: Das Rheingold through May 13th.
Salmon Fishing in Yemen, The Strand Theatre, Rockland Shorts, Verdi’s La Traviata, Massenet’s Manon, Book Club with Chris Matthews, International Short Film Festival, Boy, Ciff Selects: Le Quattro Volte, VERDI’S LA TRAVIATA, MASSENET’S MANON
Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, A Separation is an utterly compelling and profound film about the dissolution of a marriage in contemporary Iran. Nader (Peyman Moadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) have been married for fourteen years and live with their eleven-year-old daughter Termeh in Tehran. Simin wants to leave Iran to provide better opportunities for her daughter.
Award-winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men’s clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe) and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) join a prestigious, international cast that includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Janet McTeer, Brenda Fricker and Pauline Collins.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short and more! (Total program running time is 79mins)
This richly illustrated lecture takes a look inside The Rare Books Collection at the Library of Congress, the largest collection of rare books in the Western hemisphere. The lecture will be given by Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.
TODAY Live at 2pm and Rebroadcast at 7pm Broadcast From London’s National Theatre Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world. Director Dominic Cooke (artistic director of London’s Royal Court Theatre) gives this well-known play a new and fresh twist. The production stars the hugely popular comedian and actor Lenny Henry making his National Theatre debut.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Live Broadcast From London’s National Theatre Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home.
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.(Approximate runtime 3hrs 50mins) The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD continues for its sixth season, featuring 11 live transmissions. Don’t miss the chance to experience the Met live at the Strand!
From the perspective of a book conservator, this lecture will explore how a book ages and the various considerations for its care. From the choice of materials used in the production of the book, to the successive care of its owners, the choices made by a book’s handlers will have enormous impact on its lifespan. In addition, this lecture will consider how the electronic age has affected the value of the tangible, printed book. While the idea of a book as a work-of-art is not new, nor is the idea of a single book having enormous value; what is new, is that in an electronic age where fewer books are printed, their value may increase simply because of their scarcity.
NT Live: Traveling Light, Rockland Shorts an International Short Film Series, Super Bowl XLVI, The Art of The Book, The Descendants, The Farnsworth Art Museum, The Thin Red Line are all at the Strand this week WOW!
This 4-part lecture series is presented in conjunction with The Art of the Book exhibition on view in the Farnsworth’s Craig Gallery January 14 through April 1, 2012, which is an exploration of the museum’s eclectic collection of primarily nineteenth and twentieth century rare, first edition, and out-of-print books ranging from the earliest purchases by Robert Bellows in the 1940s to important donations made throughout the museum’s history.
DAYS OF HEAVEN is the long-awaited follow-up to Malick’s 1973 debut Badlands, and confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In this love triangle set in the early 1900’s, Bill (Richard Gere) works in a Chicago steel mill, but must flee the city after accidentally killing a man. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his younger sister (Linda Manz). Instead of a better life, they head straight into tragedy when a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Adams.
3 SUPERSTARS IN BERLIN A Special HD Broadcast Starring Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott & Jonas Kaufman Three of the biggest names in opera come together for a once in a lifetime performance. Opera superstar Anna Netrebko returns to Berlin’s stunning Waldbuhne, one of the world’s most impressive open stages.
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Maine’s Office of Securities Issues Advisory to Warn Consumers about “Crowdfunding” Investments
Sam Whitman Band, w/ Megan Murphy, and The Golden Prize at Johnson Hall 5/19/12
Work by Cony High School Art Students on view at in Augusta Until July 7, 2012
Disc Golf Event to Benefit Issinryu Karate Academy in Randolph on May 20, 2012
REMINDER: Artists invited to an Art Critique with Abbott Meader at The Harlow on May 20, 2012
Maine Historical Society News for the Week of May 16, 2012
Natural Inclination Show at Monkee Tree to Benefit Natural Resources Council
Francine Reed on May 19th, Portland String Quartet on 22nd at Boothbay Opera House