STONINGTON – Opera House Arts presents “Congratulations, Macbeth,” its second in a series of contemporary cabaret versions of Shakespeare’s classics, at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Stonington Opera House. “Congratulations, Macbeth” is written by Justin Badger and Stephanie Dodd, two of Opera House Art’s family of New York City-based actors. In addition to the performance, […]

Early on in “A Good Day to Die Hard” comes a prolonged car/truck chase through the clogged streets of Moscow that contains some of the most impressive stunt driving I’ve ever seen in a movie. As far as I could tell, director John Moore (“Max Payne,” “The Omen”) used little to no computer-generated imagery in […]

Author Karen Russell combines twilight zone with coming of age in the eight stories of ‘Vampires.’

More than 30 years after the first film in the trilogy, Lawrence Kasdan says he’s excited to return.

When you read a novel, you expect fiction. When you read a memoir, you expect facts. Somewhere between these genres lies a battleground where truth has become the weapon of choice. Some authors have paid dearly for writing memoirs that were long on embellishment, short on fact. But should novelists be held to the same […]

Art “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, through Sunday; Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through April 7; and “Voices of Design” — 25 Years of Architalx, interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19, […]

I have very mixed feelings about “This Flat Earth / Esta Tierra Plana” at Rose Contemporary in Portland. On one hand, it’s an exciting concept show featuring works by artists from Maine and Spain. Yet the show takes its lead from Thomas Friedman’s book “The World Is Flat,” in which the free-trade advocating author supports […]

‘One of the only nonpartisan Lincoln Clubs in the country’ toasts its presidential namesake at an annual dinner.