Ogunquit Performing Arts
This is the featured 2nd night event for the Ogunquit Performing Art’s 25th Annual Capriccio, a two-week long ‘Celebration of the Arts’ in Ogunquit, Maine. Grammy Award winner Paul Sullivan has enjoyed a richly varied and distinguished career as a composer and a pianist. According to Sullivan “I was nominated as part of the Paul […]
This year's Festival features the colorful, passionate and romantic music of Cuba, Russia and France, as performed by two international artists, George Lopez on Friday evening, and Irina Nuzova on Saturday evening. The Festival concludes on Sunday afternoon with the Student Piano Recital, featuring the area's best young pianists performing on OPA's Steinway Concert Grand. […]
George Lopez, showcasing Spanish exoticism in classical music.
Irina Nuzova, performing the music of French and Russian composers.
Student Piano Recital, showcasing the best of the area's young pianists. More details to come!
Ogunquit Performing Arts presents 15th ANNUAL CLASSIC FILM SERIES November 2015 through May, 2016 Dunaway Center, 23 School Street, Ogunquit Our 15th season of Classic Films will be presented on the wall-size screen at the Dunaway Center, on the first Sunday of each month at 2 pm, November through May. (The exception: December film to […]
This 1962 drama starring Gregory Peck is considered by many to be the greatest film ever made.
In this prose work by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, an old man shares his heartwarming memories of Christmases past with his grandson.
Demonstration and Excerpts from "The Victorian Nutcracker" by the Portland Ballet, 3:00 pm.
Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall star in this hilarious and successful 1960 cinematic version of the stage comedy by Harry Kurnitz.
Marnie is a 1964 psychological thriller produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen was based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Winston Graham. The film stars Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. One year after she appeared as Melanie Daniels in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, The Birds, actress Tippi […]
This 1963 black and white crime mystery features George C. Scott as a retired British intelligence officer as he, (together with an old friend, a World War II counterpart in the French Resistance), investigates a series of apparently unrelated deaths and the list that ties these crimes together. Set in the fog-enshrouded streets and estates […]
Returning to Ogunquit for their annual visit, the acclaimed Stillson School of Irish Dance brings a troupe of more than a dozen dancers garbed in brilliant, sparkling costumes. Always a local favorite, the dancers will perform an array of jigs and reels which have won them prizes at regional and international competitions. The only certified […]
Starring Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, and Dean Jagger, this exciting 1949 American war film is about aircrews in the United States Army’s Eighth Air Division who flew daylight bombing missions over Germany and France.
The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group the Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Members of the Band included Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson. The Last Waltz was advertised as the Band's "farewell concert appearance," and […]
Joyce Andersen and Harvey Reid return to Ogunquit Performing Arts, bringing with them the Knotty Pine Boys All-Star Band to take you on a musical tour of classic American country and folk favorites.
Friday, June 10: Ogunquit's favorite Boston Chamber Music returns for its 17th year of opening the Festival. Clarinetist and Artistic Director Thomas Hill continues to bring together the finest ensembles especially selected for this concert, which this year will feature clarinet, 'cello and piano, performing the works of Brahms and Beethoven. Friday, June 17: […]
Thomas Hill, clarinet Aristides Rivas, cello Janice Weber, piano Sonata in f minor op. 120 #1 for clarinet and piano Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Allegro appassionato Andante un poco Adagio Allegretto grazioso Vivace Sonata in Eb major op. 120 #2 for clainet and piano Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Allegro amabile Appassinato, ma non […]
The Portland String Quartet's accolades include "Best Chamber Music Recording" for their ground-breaking cycles of the chamber music of Ernest Bloch, George Chadwick and Walter Piston. The Quartet was honored in 2013 by Chamber Music America with its Acclaim Award "in recognition of outstanding service and cultural contributions to the community." Their discography includes over […]
OGUNQUIT’S FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Calendar of Events Click on Presenter for Event Details SUNDAY, SEPT 4 @ 7 PM: OGUNQUIT BAPTIST CHURCH Labor Day Concert with Various Artists WEDNESDAY, SEPT 7, & THURSDAY SEPT 8: OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE Capriccio Ticket Discounts for “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” – Buy-One-Get-One-Free! (Restrictions and limitations apply. See […]
JAZZ GUITARISTS FRANK VIGNOLA AND VINNY RANIOLO Friday, September 9, 2016, at 8:00 pm Dunaway Center, 23 School Street, Ogunquit Virtuoso guitarists Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo have received international acclaim for their thrilling performances before cheering audiences. Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity […]
UP’S THE WORD: A CELEBRATION IN JAZZ, DANCE AND POETRY Sojoy & the Annex Contemporary Dance Company Friday, September 16, 2016, at 8:00 pm Dunaway Center, 23 School Street, Ogunquit Sojoy and the Annex Contemporary Dance Company combine their creative talents, and the exciting collaboration results in an exhilarating program of jazz and contemporary […]
This year's Festival features the music of the masters, as performed by two international artists, the passionate powerhouse Victor Goldberg on Friday evening, and the dazzling virtuoso Janice Weber on Saturday evening. The Festival concludes on Sunday afternoon at 3 pm with the Student Piano Recital, featuring the area's best young pianists performing on OPA's fabled Steinway.
"Victor Goldberg is an excellent pianist with a formidable technique, a powerful and a romantic soul... intensely expressive performance had a powerful emotional impact." Edith Eisler, New York Concert Review. He has been hailed as a performer with "astute interpretive sensibilities" by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times, and has received praise from The […]
“As Weber conquered Liszt, she also conquered the audience … Her performance of the Etudes was indeed transcendent.” San Francisco Chronicle “There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes, but few can liberate the prophetic music as masterfully as Janice Weber does here." Time Janice Weber returns to Ogunquit […]
Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American madcap, but dark, comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant, and based on Joseph Kesselring's play Arsenic and Old Lace. Set in the Brooklyn family home of the Brewsters, the plot concerns a drama critic, Mortimer Brewster, whose two beloved maiden aunts are caring for […]
As a holiday treat, dancers from the Portland Ballet will perform excerpts from their production of Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet. This representation of about a dozen dancers, will appear in full costume in selections from the Ballet’s complete production of “The Victorian Nutcracker”, (which opens in the Portland area on Dec 17th.) CHILDREN ARE WELCOME, and […]
"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote. First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. This 1997 film version stars Patty Duke, Piper Laurie and Eric Lloyd. As directed by Glenn Jordan, and adapted by Duane Poole, the gentle and lyrical […]
This 1977 Oscar-winning drama, based on the memoirs of playwright Lillian Hellman, depicts the relationship between two friends with unexpected consequences. Lillian, on her way to a writers’ meeting in 1930's Russia, plans to reunite with her life-long friend Julia, who in turn asks Lillian to smuggle funds into Germany to aid the anti-Nazi movement. Waiting in the wings is Lillian's lover and mentor, Dashiell Hammett, who is unaware of her dangerous assignment.
Filmed previously in 1929 and in 1936, this third adaptation of Jerome Kern’s Show Boat was shot in Technicolor in the typical MGM lavish style in 1951, with a production spread out from the MGM back lot to the Mississippi itself. Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney, the film stars Kathryn Grayson, […]