• Lucid Stage on Baxter Boulevard in Portland marks Black History Month on Friday with “Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist and Other Conversations of Color: A Celebration of African American History.” The evening includes music, a play and a visual arts exhibition.

It begins, as good things often do, with music. Mehuman Jonson will perform and narrate traditional freedom songs. Jonson has performed and toured with Nora Jones, Meshell N’Degeocello and Ani DiFranco.

A staged reading of Carolyn Gage’s one-act “Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist” follows. Shatema Brooks, a Rockland resident, and Maureen Emerson of Portland will perform.

Lucid Stage also will show a series of paintings by Rockland artist Jonathan Frost. The series, “The Death of Jimmie Lee Jackson,” tells a part of the Civil Rights movement.

Admission is $10 to $20, and reservations are recommended by calling 899-3993 or visiting www.lucidstage.com. 

• Children’s book author and illustrator Chris Van Dusen will talk about his life and work at 2 p.m. today at the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library, 18 Maine St., Kennebunkport. Van Dusen will display a variety of his work and sign books after his talk. Light refreshments will follow.

His popular titles include “Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee,” “A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee,” “If I Built a Car” and “The Circus Ship.” His latest book is “Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee.”

The Pasco Lecture is sponsored by the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, Kennebunk Savings Bank and Brown Fox Printing.

For information, call 967-2778. 

• Some very good plays are winding up their runs:

If you have not seen “2 Pianos 4 Hands” at Portland Stage Company, you are just about out of time. The final performance is at 2 p.m. today. Call 774-0465 for last-minute tickets.

Portland Stage also is running the one-man show “The Real McGonagall” in its studio theater, through Feb. 27. Mark Honan stars in this witty, tender tale of the world’s worst poet. Ron Botting directs this play, which was written by New England playwright Willy Holtzman. Performances are at 3 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 3 p.m. Feb. 27. Call 774-0465 for tickets.

Good Theater wraps up “Moonlight & Magnolias,” a behind-the-scenes comedy about the making of “Gone With the Wind,” on Feb. 27. It is on stage at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. Call 885-5883 for tickets.

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