An Emerge Maine benefit aims to help the group dedicated to preparing women to seek a greater role in public life.

If you are not familiar with the world of ballet, Jacques d’Amboise may very well be the most famous person from Maine you know little about. If you are a fan of dance, then you know d’Amboise as a superstar. As a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, d’Amboise, now 76, was a […]

This week • With barely time to pause between shows, Portland Stage Company opens its newest play, “Halpern & Johnson,” this week. The drama explores the nuances of marriage and friendship and secrets and lies. It alternates between funny and sad as it tells the story of two men who share an unusual bond: A […]

It started with a charity plunge into Casco Bay and wound up with a party – and plenty of Guinness – at Ri Ra.

Art “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008,” Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. “Little Elegies: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Mourning,” paintings, texts and objects created to assuage grief and memorialize the dead, drawn from the museum’s collections, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Noon to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. […]

Since it is National Youth Art Month, it seems a good time to consider Maine’s “emerging artists.” Many galleries around the state take tourist-free spring as an opportunity to give emerging local artists a chance to prove themselves. Aucocisco in Portland, for example, just opened “Audition” — a completely un-ironic title for an exhibition giving […]