Nicholas Schroeder

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Acorn bares souls in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Illusions + pretenses
Edward Albee's heavyweight Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a horror story.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 16, 2011

Touring the PMA's Biennial

The Phoenix's art writers discuss the pros and cons of the year's biggest show
The Portland Museum of Art 2011 Biennial features 65 works from 47 artists in an effort to showcase the best from today's local art scene.
By ANNIE LARMON AND NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 13, 2011

Review: An émigré's struggle with his baggage, in AIRE's Brendan

When the pipes aren't calling
America, enthuses Irish émigré Brendan (Michael Dix Thomas), is the smell of coffee and gasoline.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 06, 2011

Preview: The sweltering, classically elegant Blood Wedding

Lorca's murderous Spaniards visit SPACE
Just about a year ago, an irrepressible new grassroots theater ensemble in Portland surged to the stage with the gloriously unabashed boorishness of Ubu Roi , a gem of French proto-Absurdism.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 19, 2011

Review: Mad Horse's Dark Night series returns

A pleasing menu
For three years now, on the midweek evenings when their main stage show is off and the theater is normally "dark," Mad Horse has staged a whole second batch of theatrical diversions.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 13, 2010

Grin and bear it

Derek Jackson's portraits of large men
If you thought you knew how to spot a bear, think again. Derek Jackson's 10 fabric portraits may have made the definition a little fuzzier.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | June 25, 2010

Homer's home

The PMA shows the Maine coastal artist at work
A hundred years after his death, Winslow Homer is still making waves.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | June 16, 2010

With feeling

Mad Horse's latest show has exceptional heart
From the darkness, a hand strikes chalk against a spot-lit blackboard: July 1981 , it writes, and then, 16 .
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | June 10, 2010

Thesis defense

MECA’s MFA students strut their stuff
Encompassing a broad range of themes, media, and levels of participation, each set of works in this year’s Maine College of Art exhibition by nine thesis-level Master’s of Fine Arts students achieves its own world and requires a separate toolkit to process and unpack.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | May 26, 2010

More than black and white

‘Drawing’ at Icon explores the power of line
In “Drawing,” the spare, residential Icon gallery offers the work of 13 Maine artists on intimate display.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | May 19, 2010

Quivering timbers

A suspended forest in Brunswick
What’s a tree without roots? Usually it’s the kitchen cabinet or a sheaf of inkjet paper, but for Maine artist Jacob Galle, the answer is a lot less complicated.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 28, 2010

Krallice, Ocean, Ludicra, AoK Suicide Forest

Music Seen
At Geno’s, April 16
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 21, 2010

The other LA

Danny Jauregui brings the Left Coast to Bowdoin
“Absent the Center” is a collection from two of Danny Jauregui’s most recent series of works investigating social space, both are deeply rooted in a cultural and historical context specific to Los Angeles.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 21, 2010