“Tannhauer,” Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg

Oct. 29-Oct. 31, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30pm, “The Laramie Project,” a play about the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard, the play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members’ own journal entries, and published news reports. It is divided into three acts, and eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes, Gould Academy, 39 Church Street, Bethel. FMI: 207-824-7700, www.gouldacademy.org.
Oct. 30, Friday, 5:30-7:30pm,”Mummy Madness,” a Spooktacular evening, bonfire, bounce house, face painting, costume parade and games galore, this is a community event, free, a donation to our local food pantry is welcome, YMCA of Southern Maine – Pineland Branch, 25 Campus Dr., New Goucester. FMI: 207-688-2255, www.ymcaofsouthernmaine.org.
Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri, 4pm/Sat. and Sun, “Boo! Thirteen Scenes from Halloween,” presented by Windham Center Stage, celebrate the season with this witch’s brew of playlets, each designed to make your skin crawl and tickle your funny bone. This eerie review of 12 skits and a one-act, all with a sinister twist, is just the thing for a few scary chuckles for the whole family, $15/adults, $10/seniors and students, Windham Center Stage Theater, 8 School Rd, Windham. FMI: 207-893-2098, www.windhamtheater.org.
Oct. 30, Friday, 7:30pm, “The Poets and the Assassin,” Reza Jalali’s play, offers historical and contemporary insight into the plight of women in Iran, portraying Iranian women’s struggle against religious and cultural tyranny while countering stereotypes about Muslim women, $15 advance4, $20 door, Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Rd., Windham. FMI: 207-893-1233, www.unitygreaterportland.org.
Oct. 31, Saturday, 12pm, “Tannhauer: Met Opera Live in HD,” James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her acclaimed Sieglinde in the Ring a few seasons ago. On the heels of his recent triumph in Parsifal, Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, and Michelle DeYoung is the love goddess, Venus. Estimated run time – 4:20. Lake Region Caterers will be serving lunch in the lobby an hour before the simulcast. Please call (207) 787-3327 to reserve a meal, $26/adults, $23/seniors, $18/students, Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley St, Fryeburg. FMI: 207-935-9232, www.fryeburgacademy.org.
Nov. 1, Sunday, 4pm, “All Saint’s & All Soul’s Evensong & Favre Requiem,” the Evensong will have beautiful and powerful All Saint’s hymns as well as the Saint Mary’s Choir offering selections from Favre’s Requiem with harp, violin & horn accompaniment, free, The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary, 43 Foreside Rd, Falmouth. FMI: 207-781-3366, www.smary.org.
Nov. 4, Wednesday, 11:30am/doors open, 12pm/luncheon served, “Stone Mountain Rooster Luncheon,” can’t get out at night, here is a little taste of a night out at SMAC in the daytime, a home cooked meal served with love to be followed by a short concert given by owner Carol Noonan complete with haunting renditions of Irish, English, and American traditional music, $30, Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Rd, Brownfield. FMI: 207-935-7292, www.stonemountainartscenter.com.