‘Contemporary Responses to Modernism’ features 13 artists with ties to New England.
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Theater review: Portland Stage puts on world premiere of ‘Read to Me’
The play employs imaginatively conceived physical and literary mechanisms to tell the story of the last days of a terminally ill child.
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A comedy about Nazis that’s actually funny?
But ‘Jojo Rabbit’ is also deadly serious.
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A woman is brutally murdered in the aisles of a big box store
Jack McMorrow witnesses the seemingly senseless murder, and as clues pile up in ‘Random Act,’ the 12th in Gerry Boyle’s McMorrow series, he begins to wonder if it’s as random as it seemed.
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P.T. Barnum, the showman and grifter who held up a funhouse mirror to America
“He created acts so famous that people still know of them. Tom Thumb, Chang and Eng, even animal acts like Jumbo the elephant.”
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Art review: PMA accurately portrays N.C. Wyeth as having range – but being racist?
At least some of the commentary accompanying the works in ‘New Perspectives’ seems unfounded.
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Classical review: Portland Early Music Festival offers polished performances
The weekend-long event opens with an appealing overview of vocal works by Claudio Monteverdi.
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Concert review: Tony Bennett shows he knows the soul of a song
The legendary singer’s I Left My Heart Tour stopped at Merrill Auditorium on Thursday.
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Comedy review: Jay Leno takes break from cool cars to make Mainers laugh
The former ‘Tonight Show’ host retains his gift for stand-up with a routine that manages to be only mildly risque.
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‘Wild Game’ is an eloquent – and lurid – tale of a mother-daughter bond gone awry
Adrienne Brodeur’s miserable role in her mother’s adulterous affair, the subject of her new memoir, reverberates down the years.