It is a sign of our maturity as an arts city that in a week’s time, Portland will host an avant-garde chamber music concert at an alternative arts venue, an early-music festival in a long-established church, and a pair of orchestra concerts featuring music by a leading contemporary composer in the city’s most prestigious concert […]

We have the White Mountains to thank for giving us Will Rhys. Rhys, a veteran New York actor, relocated to Maine more than three years ago, in part because of our proximity to the White Mountains. He and his wife, Nancy Kluck, are avid outdoors people. They like to bike, camp and kayak. But mostly, […]

Director Chris Gabrowski had a singular advantage when he agreed to direct Wendy Wasserstein’s classic family drama “The Sisters Rosensweig.” One of his former students worked for Wasserstein as a personal assistant. As he prepared this show for Portland Stage Company, Gabrowski kept his phone number on speed dial. The former student offered not only […]