Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine Nov. 12-18

Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine Nov. 12-18
Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine Nov. 12-18
November 11, 2015
Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Nov. 12-18
November 11, 2015

Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine Nov. 12-18

Rolling Slumber Bed Races

“Rolling Slumber Bed Races,” Downtown Brunswick

Nov. 12-15, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30pm, “Sondheim on Sondheim,” hailed as a “revelatory revue full of wonderful moments” and a “funny, affectionate and revealing tribute to musical theater’s greatest living composer and lyricist,” Sondheim on Sondheim is an intimate portrait of the famed songwriter in his own words — and music. Through the use of exclusive interview footage, audiences get an inside look at famed composer Stephen Sondheim’s personal life and artistic process – his story, his inspiration, his genius. Bowdoin’s production, with guest director Ed Reichert, features a talented cast singing well-known, rarely heard, and cut material featuring video commentary from the master himself., free tickets, general admission, limited seating, call for reservations, Bowdoin College, Wish Theater, Memorial Hall, 255 Maine St, Brunswick. FMI: 207-725-3663, www.bowdoin.edu.
Nov. 13-16, Friday-Sunday, 5-8pm/Fri, 9am-4pm/Sat, 1-4pm/Sun, “Five Rivers Arts Alliance Art Festival,” music is scheduled for the group show. On Friday night it’s “Jazz Alchemy,” Saturday “Red Beans and Rice,” Kathleen Mcgee, and Ben Huntsberger are playing, and Sunday, it’s “Cilantro.” Over 20 artists at the Gallery near Frontier in Fort Andross and 40 artists at Spindleworks, 7 Lincoln St, will offer a display of acrylics, baskets, ceramics, decorative arts, drawing, glass, jewelry, oils, photography, stationery, textiles, watercolors, weaving, woodworking, fiber, and giclee prints and more, jump start your holiday shopping and support local talent, Coleman Burke Gallery & Spindleworks, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St-in the Gallery next to Frontier Restaurant and Spindleworks at 7 Lincoln St, Brunswick. FMI: www.fiveriversart.org.
Nov. 13-15, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sun, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” a new adaptation adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. This production stars The Theater Project’s high school Young Company and is directed by alum Karin Baard. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a new and shocking version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of depravity, lust, love and horror. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll’s experiments with exotic “powders and tinctures” have brought forth his other self—Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the acts Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave…With set and lighting design by JP Gagnon, and costumes by Wendy Poole, $12 or pay-what-you-can, The Theater Project, 14 School St, Brunswick. FMI: 207-729-8584, www.theaterproject.com.
Nov. 14, Saturday, 11am, “Rolling Slumber Bed Races,” teams of costumed participants compete by pushing decorated beds on wheels. You won’t have to wonder if you’re dreaming…there really will be beds rolling down the street! Prizes will be awarded for creativity, speed and team spirit, free, Park Row, off  Maine Street, Brunswick. FMI: www.brunswickdowntown.org.
Nov. 15, Sunday, 3pm, “DaPonte String Quartet Winter Series I: Enemies of the State,” The DaPonte String Quartet begins their winter concert series with a program that includes works by Mozart (Quartet in A Major), Shostakovich (String Quartet in C Minor), and Schulhoff (String Quartet No. 1), $20, free/under 21, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 200 Main Street, Thomaston. FMI: 207-781-5526, www.daponte.org.
Nov. 17, Tuesday, 6:30pm, “CREA Evening Program ‘Reading Animal Signs,” often, the presence of wild creatures is revealed to us only in the signs they leave behind. Tracks, nests, food scraps, “scat,” and shed feathers or antlers are all clues to the ways and means of forest animals. Join Mike Windsor, Audubon Staff Naturalist, for an informative evening presentation, free, Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Rd, Topsham. FMI: 207-725-1727, topshamlibrary.org.
Nov. 18, Wednesday, 6pm “Fabulous Fall Pies,” one easy crust recipe, three courses. Make and store hand-made pie crusts and demonstrate their use them in free form, savory and serving size applications. Enjoy butternut squash, caramelized onion, aged goat cheese galette; chicken and fall root vegetable pot pie, and individual apple crumble and blackberry pies with cinnamon creme Anglaise. Please bring 2, 6 or 8 ounce ramekins and containers for leftovers, $35, Freeport Middle School, 19 Kendall Lane, Freeport. FMI: 208-865-6171, www.mainetoday.com.

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