Elaine Perry

Good Theater's Executive/Artistic Director Brian P. Allen has a remarkable sixth sense about choosing plays whose situations and characters resonate with originality and empathy. The latest production, Molly Smith Metzler's The May Queen, is an engaging portrait of five small town characters who all work in the local insurance agency and whose lives and paths remain interconnected because of their shared high school past. Metzler's comedy explores the surface banality of these characters, as it slowly and skillfully makes its way toward revealing some deeper poetic truths.

You may want to choose who you sit with at lunch a little more carefully this summer; the meanest girls in Ohio are coming to Portland.

You may want to choose who you sit with at lunch a little more carefully this summer; the meanest girls in Ohio are coming to Portland.

You may want to choose who you sit with at lunch a little more carefully this summer; the meanest girls in Ohio are coming to Portland.

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.