Ogunquit Performing Arts
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
“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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]
The Hunters is a 1958 big-screen American war/ adventure film loosely adapted from the novel, The Hunters, by James Salter. Produced and directed by Dick Powell, it stars Robert Mitchum […]
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 […]
Laura (1944) is one of the most stylish, elegant, moody, and witty classic film noirs ever made with an ensemble cast of characters. Manhattan detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates […]
Jeff Daniels stars as George Washington in this historical drama about the Battle of Trenton and the crossing of the Delaware. Winner of the 2000 Peabody Award for Excellence.
Starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, the musical biopic showcases the swing music of famed clarinetist Benny Goodman, who recorded the clarinet solos used in the film.
