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October 11, Thursday, 2pm, National Theater’s “Last of the Hausmanns,” starring Julie Walters, Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory, Live broadcast, Julie plays the part of an old woman, slowly loosing grip on her house, her family, herself and her life. She desperately clings to her 1960’s way of life, dribbling on about her time in India and the lessons she learnt, and we watch as her now often harmful views on society affect her family, especially her gay son, $23, Strand Theatre, 345 Main Street, Rockland. FMI: 207-594-0070, www.rocklandstrand.com.
October 12, Friday, 4pm, “Dancing Through Time, pianist Emma Tahmizianv, free, Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Brunswick. FMI: 207-798-4141, www.bowdoin.edu.
October 12, Friday, 7:30pm, “Arsenic and Old Lace,” two charming old ladies whose hobby is poisoning unsuspecting visitors, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt and is digging the Panama Canal in the basement, the normal nephew who finds about the aunt’s hobby and finds a body or two…what’s a fella to do, $12/general, $10/adults and seniors, Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington Street, Bath. FMI: 207-442-8455, www.chocolatechurcharts.org.
October 12, Friday, 8pm, Vega, singer-songwriter, a leading figure of the folk-music revival of the early 1980s when, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, she sang what has been labeled contemporary folk or neo-folk songs of her on creation, $34, Strand Theatre, 345 Main Street, Rockland. FMI: 207-594-0070, www.rocklandstrand.com.
Oct. 13, Saturday, 10am-2pm, Fall Festival, seed saving, hay climbing, horse team demos, hayrides, pumpkin picking, food and music, free, Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Road, Freeport. FMI: 207-865-4469, www.wolfesneckfarm.org.
October 13, Saturday, 1pm, Metropolitan Opera, “L’Elisir d’Amore,” Donizetti’s comic opera, starring Anna Netrebko, $24. $22/general, $5/18 and under, Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater Street, Damariscotta. FMI: 207-563-3424, www.atthelincoln.org.
October 13, Saturday, 7pm, “The Sweetest Sounds…Music of Richard Rodgers and Irving Berlin,” performed by vocalists Nancy Durgin and Andrew Fenniman with pianist John Mulcahy, $12, free/ 12 and under, Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, 200 Main Street, Thomaston. FMI: 207-354-7250, www.mainetoday.com.

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