Now that the long-anticipated renovation of the Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center in Gardiner is underway, the work is revealing the building’s history.
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New England comedians take stage for Johnson Hall’s Stand Up Comedy Series
Johnson Hall’s Stand Up Comedy Series hosted by Mark Turcotte features Dennis Fogg, Trent Wells, Joe Flynn and Ann-Marie Keene at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1, at The Blind Pig Next Level in Gardiner. The show lasts approximately 90 minutes. These performances are intended for mature audiences and will contain adult language and content. […]
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Tough End String Band to perform Johnson Hall Free Waterfront Concert
Johnson Hall’s Free Waterfront Concert Series will feature Tough End String Band at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the Gardiner Landing in Waterfront Park. The band has been serving a spicy brew of acoustic music: old-time, bluegrass, jazz and more. Members of the band include Anthony Viselli, mandolin; Ryu Mitsuhashi, violin; Paul Riechmann, bass; […]
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Johnson Hall Free Waterfront Concert to feature Unfinished Blues Band
Johnson Hall Free Waterfront Concert will feature Unfinished Blues Band at 6 p.m. Friday, July 1, at the Gardiner Landing on Depot Square in Gardiner. It all started back in the 20th century, in the 1980s, when hair metal bands ruled. The radio was jam packed with synthesized pop. Emerging hip-hop was all the rage. […]
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Photos: Salvaging wood from Maine’s oldest opera house
Renovations to Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, considered the state’s oldest opera house, began this month. A crew from Barn Boards & More, a local wood salvaging business, was pulling up and saving the tongue-and-groove floor boards from the theater Thursday to reuse as flooring or make into tabletops. By December 2023, the three-story performing arts venue in Gardiner is expected to reopen to the public with a 400-seat theater, a large lobby and concession area, full-service box office, green rooms for performers, and an elevator. Local hotel owner Benjamin Johnson turned the former livery stable into a performance hall in 1884, and it became an opera house in 1888. All photos by Kennebec Journal photojournalist Joe Phelan.
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Random Ideas plan Johnson Hall Free Waterfront Concert
Random Ideas will be featured at the Johnson Hall Free Waterfront Concert at 6 p.m. Friday, June 24, on Depot Square. The band is made up of Meagan Johnson on drums, Lexi Johnson on bass and vocals, and Kinsey Johnson on guitar and backing vocals. The triplet sisters all had an instinctual desire to be musicians […]
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Gardiner’s Johnson Hall secures additional $150,000 from city
Contribution to help inch historic opera house closer to fundraising goal that has jumped in recent months.
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Johnson Hall in Gardiner prepares for start of renovations at historic opera house
With the building at 280 Water St. closed for about the next 18 months, Johnson Hall’s Waterfront Concert Series is to be held this summer and in 2022-23 at other venues in Gardiner.
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Johnson Hall to host ‘The Alewife Review’
“The Alewife Review,” an informative and entertaining program to celebrate sea-run fishes and the return of the alewife to its native waters in Cobbossee Stream, will be presented from 6:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, at Johnson Hall in Gardiner. Hosted by improv artist Dennis Price with original music by Alfred Lund and Friends, “The […]
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Maine Event Comedy presents Carolyn Plummer at Johnson Hall
Maine Event Comedy presents 15-year comedy veteran Carolyn Plummer at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 15, at Johnson Hall Theater in Gardiner. The show will also feature Cher Lynn and Mike Gray. The show is for ages 21-plus and will contain adult language and content. Plummer pulls material from life’s hum-drum, day-to-day monotony – and […]