This week • Portland Stage Company hosts the 15th annual From Away festival of international playwriting at 7 p.m. Monday. From Away features the voices of international playwrights, whose work is excerpted and performed in translation. This year’s festival includes readings from the work of Pilar Quintana (Colombia), Josephine Rowe (Australia) and Jeremy Tiang (Singapore), […]

Poets usually write elegies — that is, lamentations for the dead — for people they know. But in this elegy, Annie Farnsworth of Arundel addresses a person she has never met except in a newsreel. Perhaps you saw him, too, on a grim day of September in 2001.

Bintliff’s American Cafe, which serves brunch daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., is no ordinary hash house.

It’s too early to say, but Maine-born artist Kate Farrington may well represent the brain drain in reverse. Farrington, a graduate of Bangor High School and Bowdoin College (classes of 1985 and 1989, respectively), is living in Cambridge, Mass., and working toward her doctoral degree. Not at Harvard or MIT or any of the other […]

Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. “Diversity,” multi-artist show, blown glass, acrylic, oil and encaustic paintings, ceramic ware and pottery, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. 712-1097. “The Photographs of Madeleine de Sinety,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31. “Gather Up the Fragments: The […]

Ghoulwill Ball-goers admire one another’s fiendishly clever costumes.