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“The Glass Menagerie,” USM, Gorham

Nov. 15-18, Thursday-Sunday, 8pm/Fri. and Sat,2pm/Sun, “The Road to Eden’s Ridge, the Musical,” by Sally Jones and Steve Jones based on the novel by M.L. Rose set in Norway, Maine, premiere event, $10-$12, Norway Grange, 15 Whitman Street, Norway. FMI: 207-739-6200, www.ohmpaa.com.
Nov. 15-18, Thursday-Sunday, 7pm/Thursday-Saturday, 2pm/Saturday and Sunday, “Arsenic and Old Lace,” by Lake Region Drama Club, farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts’ victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Lake Region High School, route 302 Naples. FMI: 207-693-5194, www.lakeregionschools.org.
Nov. 16-18, Friday-Sunday, 7pm/Friday and Saturday, 4pm/Sunday, “Guys and Dolls,” musical presented by Windham High School, $7-$11, Windham High School, 406 Gray Road, Windham. FMI: 207-892-1810, www.windham.k12.me.us.
Nov. 16-18, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Friday and Saturday, 2pm/Sunday, “The Miracle Worker,” high school production of the play about Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, $4-6, McCormack Performing Arts Center, Gorham High School, Gorham. FMI: 207-222-1136, Russell Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. FMI: 207-222-1146, www.usm.maine.edu/theatre.
Nov. 16-18, Friday-Sunday, 7:20pm/Friday and Saturday, 5pm/Sunday, Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams took the tragedy of his own family and transformed it into a poetic work of beauty and pain. The dreams of a woman living in a fantasy world and a woman living in the past clash and create spectacular dramatic lightning. The fragile and radiant Laura Wingfield is one of theatre’s most memorable characters , $8-15, Russell Hall, USM, Gorham. FMI: 207-780-5151, www.usm.maine.edu.
Nov. 17, Saturday, 10am-1pm, “Snowflake Fair,” arts and crafts, free to browse, Lovell United Church of Christ, 1174 Main Street, Lovell. FMI: 207-925-1321, lovellucc.org.
Nov. 18, Sunday, 2-4pm, USM Concert Band, traditional, featured on the program will be Ron Nelson’s Medieval Suite, Timothy Mahr’s The Soaring Hawk, and Yasuhide Ito’s Gloriosa. Conducting associate Joshua Champagne will conduct Persichetti’s Divertimento, $3-6, Gorham High School, 41 Morrill Avenue, Gorham. FMI: 207-780-5151, www.usm.maine.edu.

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