Jordan Handren-Seavey

Things are heating up for the inaugural Emerge Film Festival, opening on June 13! The Festival board of directors has released the final film schedule, including more than 40 short, documentary and feature films from Maine, the U.S. and the world. Details for the two-day Lewiston/Auburn, Maine event are outlined on the newly developed website: emergefilmfestival.org.

The brutality and barbarism of Shakespeare's early 'revenge' play, Titus Andronicus, make it difficult fare for modern audiences. And yet, as director Stacey Koloski says about her staging at South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre Company: 'Titus Andronicus shows the human cost to the cycle of war and violence.' That the tragedy with all its on-stage atrocities may be 'frighteningly relevant today' does not make the experience any less painful for the spectators. Yet despite its assault on our emotions and senses, the audience at the Mad Horse Theatre cannot help but be gripped and moved by what it witnesses.

I am here to tell you that not only can Shakespeare's work be truly life changing, but it IS accessible, and topical in our present world climate. And a production like the Mad Horse Theatre's stellar presentation of Titus Andronicus proves that to a tee.

Mad Horse closes its 27th Season on a grand scale with one of Shakespeare's most sweeping and controversial plays. In this depiction of an aging warrior's return home, TITUS ANDRONICUS is a masterful examination of power, corruption, loyalty to family and to country, and the lengths to which one man will go to right a horrifying wrong. Click below to watch a promo for the show!

Mad Horse closes its 27th Season on a grand scale with one of Shakespeare's most sweeping and controversial plays. In this depiction of an aging warrior's return home, TITUS ANDRONICUS is a masterful examination of power, corruption, loyalty to family and to country, and the lengths to which one man will go to right a horrifying wrong.

Mad Horse closes its 27th Season on a grand scale with one of Shakespeare's most sweeping and controversial plays. In this depiction of an aging warrior's return home, TITUS ANDRONICUS is a masterful examination of power, corruption, loyalty to family and to country, and the lengths to which one man will go to right a horrifying wrong.

Mad Horse Theatre Company's Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll opens tonight, May 7, and will run on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings through May 16 at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, in Portland.

Mad Horse Theatre Company's Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll opens Monday, May 7, and will run on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings through May 16 at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, in Portland.

Acorn Productions, a non-profit art presented located in the Dana Warp Mill, has finalized plans for the 2010 Maine Playwrights Festival (MPF), the ninth annual spotlight on brand new plays by local writers, which will take place from April 15 to May 2 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center on Munjoy Hill in Portland.

Acorn Productions, a company dedicated to nurturing and developing the next generation of performing artists and audiences, announces plans for April events designed to introduce new voices into the Greater Portland theater community.

MAD HORSE THEATRE Opens its 24th Season with Ronald Harwood's THE DRESSER. Previews Thursday Oct 8th and Friday Oct 9th. Runs October 8-25 Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

MAD HORSE THEATRE Opens its 24th Season with Ronald Harwood's THE DRESSER. Previews Thursday Oct 8th and Friday Oct 9th. Runs October 8-25 Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

MAD HORSE THEATRE Opens its 24th Season with Ronald Harwood's THE DRESSER. Previews Thursday Oct 8th and Friday Oct 9th. Runs October 8-25 Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.