A child’s recollections celebrate human resilience – and break your heart.

MaineStage Shakespeare doth celebrate a second successful season.

The DaPonte String Quartet has an intriguing idea for its final concerts this summer, scheduled for Aug. 22, 26 and 29 at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. They’re calling it the “Scandalous Music Festival,” and it will consist of works that caused a furor in their own day as well as ours, from Ravel, Piazzola, Brahms […]

Art “Two Visions,” paintings by Lenora Leibowitz and photo- graphs by Rita Spinella Olsen, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fish gallery.com. Through Aug. 25. “Illustrated Passages,” Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. Artists chose a piece of text to accompany their art. Through Aug. 19. “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works […]

• Maine photographer Peter Ralston is showing some of his favorite photographs about 20 feet from Rockport Harbor, in the harbormaster’s office. Ralston and harbormaster Abbie Leonard collaborated on the project, which covers the walls of the building on the west side of the harbor. The exhibition includes an image of this year’s Camden fireworks […]

Art galleries come in all shapes and sizes. But somewhere in the last century, we all sort of tacitly agreed that an art gallery was a clean, well-lighted space in which one could usually expect to find work that would relate to itself in some sort of series by a single artist. Damariscotta’s Stable Gallery […]

You’ve never seen Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones quite like this. As old marrieds facing “intensive” couples counseling over their comatose sexual relationship, two of America’s finest screen actors are by turns silly, befuddled, awkward and confused. And “Hope Springs,” the new comedy from the director of “The Devil Wears Prada” and scripted by […]