Bates College operates in Lewiston, Maine, with capacity and age details worth confirming before a date is announced. Musically, Bates College accommodates All Genres. Bates College accepts booking inquiries through the venue’s online form. Artists need to confirm Bates College’s sound system, monitoring, available backline, and technical staffing. Artists should confirm Bates College’s final schedule and show-specific deal before publishing the date. Show inquiries for Bates College are handled by its talent buyer function. Any remaining detail for Bates College should be treated as show-specific and confirmed before commitment. The proposal should match Bates College’s documented room, policy, and programming details.
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The Public Theatre is a live-music venue in Lewiston, Maine. Professional Equity theatre in the historic Ritz building, presenting contemporary plays and current music-heavy stage productions. A professional theatre with current live-musician stage programming; it is a performing-arts venue, not a school or college. The venue supports live-band performance, giving working groups a clear basis for evaluating the room. Programming includes Rock and roll, musical theatre, performing arts, mixed live performance. Age access is 21+. The venue is located at 31 Maple St, Lewiston, ME 04240. For musicians evaluating a date, the established programming is the clearest guide to whether a set, instrumentation, and audience profile will fit the room. Artists can compare their sound and show scale with the venue’s existing live-music format before pursuing a date. Bands and solo performers can use the genre mix, audience setting, and performance style as practical signals when building a routing plan. For working musicians, that established performance pattern also provides useful context for deciding how much production, stage footprint, and preparation a show may require. The venue’s live-use pattern makes it a practical lead for suitable performers.
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- Talent Buyer
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- 21+
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- All Genres
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- 31 Maple St, Lewiston, ME 04240, United States
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- 207-782-3200, 207-782-2211
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