Two Portland shows – ‘Asters & Goldenrod’ and ‘Liveable Worlds’ – explore the symbiotic ties between artists and the natural world.
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Theater review: Sale of a Maine family camp at center of new comedy
Portland writer Monica Wood’s ‘Saint Dad’ is in its premiere run at Portland Stage.
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A stirring guide to the great Dutch painters
In ‘The Upside-Down World,’ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser combines biography, art criticism and touches of memoir.
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ is a twisty and icily cerebral thriller
Sandra Hüller delivers a naturalistic tour de force of spiky confidence and lurking maternal guilt in this whodunit/marital drama.
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‘Making Maine’ gives a decidedly unsentimental picture of the nascent state
Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.
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Theater review: The challenges of modern motherhood front and center in ‘Paint Night’
Sisterhood rules in Carey Crim’s latest work, which is having its world premiere at The Public in Lewiston.
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Two children’s books make the case for new types of heroines
To the smart, spunky protagonists in the latest books by local writers Gail Donovan and Megan Frazer Blakemore, we say, you go, girls!
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Art review: See work by Alison Hildreth ranging from her early career to still wet
Speedwell Projects and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art both have shows up that celebrate the artist’s ongoing career.
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Theater review: Follow a budding romance’s slow burn in ‘Fireflies’
The tender play, set in small-town Texas, opens Good Theater’s season.
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It’s the time of year for horror and weird tales. Here are some favorites.
The October Country. The season of mists and melancholy. That time of year when graveyards yawn and things go bump in the night and we break out worn copies of Herbert Wise and Phyllis Fraser’s “Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural” or the collected ghost stories of Vernon Lee and M.R. James. In 2023, […]