Around Town 4/16/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Puck, Yeah Productions will present Bottom’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Woods Grow Queer — described as “a riotous, transformative, and celebratory theatrical production that reclaims the Shakespeare classic” at the Marsh River Theatre in Brooks, with 2 performances over the weekend of April 26th and 27th. Jae Echeverria and Buggz are here today with the details

A message from Puck, Yeah Productions:
“UPDATE: NOT ADA ACCESSIBLE. We failed to get interpreters in time for them to prepare for our show and therefore cannot provide ASL. The front row will be reserved for Deaf & Hard Of Hearing folks and their guests and we will provide printed scripts. The event is wheelchair accessible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For all Deaf & HOH community members and any additional disabled community members who were misled by our advertising, we’d like to show accountability by offering you a cash refund at the event and inviting you to watch the show free of charge.”

FMI:
events.humanitix.com/midsummernightsdream
@QueerlyMaine on Instagram and Facebook

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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