Three actors portray a wide range of characters in the Winnipesaukee Playhouse production, streaming through Portland Stage.
Review
Frances McDormand wows (again) in the earthbound yet expansive ‘Nomadland’
Based on a 2017 book, the movie explores the lives of seasonal migrant workers and features many real-life nomads.
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ excavates recent history to find disturbing contemporary echoes
Arriving just weeks after “MLK/FBI,” Sam Pollard’s meticulous investigation of the FBI’s harassment campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., comes “Judas and the Black Messiah,” a similarly powerful and infuriating excavation of how the American criminal justice establishment sought to dismantle, silence and literally destroy the mid-century civil rights movement. The Black Messiah in question […]
Two women in love struggle to give voice to their feelings in ‘The World to Come’
Abigail, the protagonist of “The World to Come,” keeps a diary, which, along with thoughts laid down in her letters, provides the narration for this film, set in 1856 in rural upstate New York, and centering on the unhappily married wife of a dour farmer named Dyer (Casey Affleck). When Abigail (Katherine Waterston) mentions that […]
Art review: Sculptures feed off each other in energetic Greenhut show
The Portland gallery features the works of three Maine artists in ‘Objects/Objectivity.’
‘Minari’ is a movie about the immigrant experience that’s both universal and surprising
To call “Minari” uncannily timely almost does it a disservice. This modestly scaled but enormously heartfelt drama touches on any number of so-called hot buttons, including immigration, assimilation, the American Dream and the fluctuations of identity. But it’s not about those things. Rather, this is the funny, sad, inspiring and ultimately universal story of how […]
For a mother forced to give up her child, decades of grief, shame and secrets
Though ‘American Baby’ chronicles a forced adoption in the 1960s, the tale resonates with the news of the many migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
A mother strains to hold her family together in a crisis
In ‘Landslide,’ a father’s fishing accident sets the scene for Susan Conley’s terrific new novel.
Art review: ‘Green Flash’ series reflects on light, through a window at Space
View Mai Snow’s paintings and poem from outside on Congress Street through Feb. 19.
Science fiction, satire and bromance in one rollicking novel
In Robert Klose’s ‘Life on Mars,’ the Spong created the Earth, and humans ruined the project.