Dan Zanes & Friends

Saturday, February 4, 2012    1 PM

Hannaford Hall, USM, Portland, Maine

Dan Zanes & Friends create fun-filled, rockin’ interactive dance parties wherever they go, performing exuberant, handmade 21st-century music that transcends language, genre, and age. Kids bounce to the catchy and playful tunes while adults appreciate the hip musicality that attracts collaborators such as Deborah Harry, Lou Reed, Blind Boys of Alabama and Philip Glass. Grammy-award winning Zanes & Friends occupy a unique place in American music where sea shanties, North American and West Indian folk music, Mexican son jarocho, the spirit of early rock-and-roll and soulful originals come together in an extravaganza fit for kids and “kid sympathizers” alike.

Tickets: $10

http://portlandovations.org/shows/2011-12/dan_zanes_friends/

Movies at the Museum: Le Havre

Le Havre
Friday, February 3, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 4, 2 p.m.
Sunday, February 5, 2 p.m.
Friday, February 10, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 11, 2 p.m.
Sunday, February 12, 2 p.m.
NR

In this warm-hearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe shiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.

In French with English subtitles.

“A stylized and sentimental fairy tale about the way the world might be…Aki Kaurismäki has become a major inheritor of the comic-humanist tradition of Charlie Chaplin, Jean Renoir, and Jacques Tati.” - A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki, 2011
93 minutes

All Members at the Contributing ($140) level and above are invited to attend the Sunday, February 12 screening of Le Havre for free. Not a Contributing member? Become a member or upgrade today and you can attend one free screening of Movies at the Museum per month.

Mad horse Theatre Presents: Becky Shaw at Lucid Stage

Becky Shaw is an amusing and cleverly constructed comedy about ambition, the cost of being truthful, and the perils of a blind date. The fast and funny dialogue navigates between five distinctively perverse and disingenuously dysfunctional characters.
The plot is as follows: from the moment that Becky arrives overdressed for her blind date with straight-talking Max, it’s clear the evening won’t go to plan. In the immediate fallout, Becky becomes an object of devotion for her boss Andrew, who appears to have a fetish for vulnerable women. In turn Andrew’s wife Suzanna turns to her step-brother Max for comfort, and their mutual desire begins to resurface.
Gina Gionfriddo’s masterful play is a biting American comedy with sharp, witty dialogue and a carefully crafted yet unforced story arc.
Character-driven, Becky Shaw is a comic tale of tangled love lives and a subtle but acerbic comedy of manners.

Trouble Is My Business at Portland Stage

from short stories by Raymond Chandler

January 24 - February 19, 2012 

The 1930s atmosphere and trademark narrative style of Los Angeles’s most famous private detective come to life in this world premiere adaptation of two of Chandler’s Philip Marlowe short stories. From seedy side streets to elegant Hollywood mansions, Marlowe must stay  focused on solving the case through run-ins with sinister thugs, high rollers, crooked cops, and femme-fatales in this quintessential jazz-age thriller. Illustration by Douglas Smith

Running Time: 2 hours. 15 minutes with a 15 minute intermission