Ogunquit Performing Arts
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, […]
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 as a flight commander during the Korean War, and Robert Wagner as a cocky young pilot assigned to his flight. Lee Philips, May Britt, Richard […]
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. After their performance, […]
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 the murder of Madison Avenue executive Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) in her fashionable apartment. Pursuing her murderer, McPherson quizzes Laura's arrogant best friend, gossip columnist […]
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.
"Keep on the Sunny Side - A Celebration of Classic Country Music" - a rousing evening of old-time country, bluegrass, folk, blues, Celtic, and ragtime favorites.
Presenting two brilliant ensembles: Boston Chamber Music, led by acclaimed clarinetist Thomas Hill, and The Cascabel Trio, led by spectacular pianist Janice Weber.
Boston Chamber Music led by clarinetist Thomas Hill, performs Beethoven, Brahms, and Fauré
Pianist Janice Weber, violinist Piotr Buczek, and 'cellist Timothy Roberts perform works by Smetana and Dvorak.
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Bass-baritone Erik Kroncke performing Broadway songs and opera favorites
Andy Happel and Los Galactacos string band playing Songs from the Americas. This concert at the Barn Gallery, 1 Bourne Lane, Ogunquit.
Presenting two internationally acclaimed pianists,
Laura Kargul, and Masanobu Ikemiya, in solo concerts, - and Maine's best young performers in their own Student Piano Recital, all performing on OPA's fabulous Steinway.
Ms. Kargul, Director of Keyboard Studies, Univ of Southern Maine, concertizes widely to rave reviews: "powerful and poetic, deeply lyrical and profound" Wiesbadener Kurier
A recital showcasing the best young pianists in southern Maine, the piano stars of the future, performing on OPA's glorious Steinway.
The popular international performer, Mr. Ikemiya returns to Ogunquit from an acclaimed concert tour in Japan.
This 1980 remake of the 1927 film stars Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, and Lucie Arnaz, and feature’s Diamond’s award-winning soundtrack.
Tickets $5 per person; no advance sales
Set in Budapest, this 1940 classic holiday film stars James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan, in a sparkling, heart-warming production by Ernst Ljubitsch.
Benjamin Britten's grand opera masterpiece, with huge orchestra and chorus, and starring Jon Vickers as the eccentric fisherman persecuted by his village in London's Royal Opera, Covent Garden production.