“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” The Cyrus Pavilion Theatre, Orono

Jan. 17, Thursday, 6pm,”’Who Goes There?’ Animal Tracking Workshop,” learn to identify mammal tracks through slides, prints and casts. Bring a notebook to make your own track field guide and make a track cast to take home. Great prep program for Saturday’s field tracking workshop! Appropriate for all ages, $8-$10, Fields Pond Audubon Center, 216 Fields Pond Road, Holden. FMI: 207-989-2591, maineaudubon.org.
Jan. 18-20, Friday-Sunday, 7pm/Fri.-Sat, 2pm/Sun, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” True North Theatre proudly presents it’s fifth production, Tennessee Williams’ classic “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” directed by Angela Bonacasa. Tennessee Williams’ personal favorite of his works, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” focuses on favorite son Brick Pollitt, his wife Maggie, and their interactions with Brick’s family over the course of one evening’s gathering at the family estate in the Mississippi Delta. Family patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt is turning sixty-five and celebrating a clean bill of health after a cancer scare. But the true diagnosis has been kept from Big Daddy and Big Mama. Throughout the course of the play, it becomes clear that the Pollitt family has become a victim of its own constructed web of deceit and “mendacity,” The Cyrus Pavilion Theatre, 6 Sebago Road, Orono. FMI: 207-619-4833, www.truenorththeatre.org.
Jan. 18, Friday, 7:30pm, “Bangor Contra Dance,” no partner or experience needed. Live music by Volution, a trio featuring fiddles, ‘cello, and accordion. Visiting caller Jeannine Ameduri will teach the dances. Walk, count to eight, and you’re dancing! All ages welcome, new dancer intro at 7:30 sharp. Please bring smooth soled, non-street shoes, $8, Bangor UU Church, 120 Park Street, Bangor. FMI: 207-356-1118, www.mainepublic.org.
Jan. 18-20, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sun, “Some Theatre Company presents ‘night, Mother’,” Jessie Cates packs her belongings into bags intended for donation to charity. She’s doing so because, as she tells her mother, Thelma, she plans to kill herself that very evening. Written by one of America’s most talented playwrights, Marsha Norman, “‘night, Mother” won the Dramatists Guild’s prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, $12, Keith Anderson Community Center, Bennoch Road, Orono. FMI: www.stcmaine.org.
Jan. 19, Saturday, 5-6:30pm, “Hampden Congregational Church Chicken Pie Supper,” Menu: chicken pie, whipped potatoes, squash, petite peas, cranberry sauce, assorted desserts & beverages, takeout is available, $9/adults, $5/children, Hampden Congregational Church, 101 Main Street, Hampden. FMI: 207-862-5248, www.hccmaine.org.
Jan. 19, Saturday, 5:30-7pm, “Full Moon Hike,” dress warm and bring a flashlight or headlamp for the full experience of nature at night, Hirundo Wildlife Refuge, Gate 1, 1107 W Old Town Road, Old Town. FMI: www.hirundomaine.org.
Jan. 19, Saturday, 7pm, “Richard Wood and Gordon Belsher Concert,” Richard Wood and Gordon Belsher from Prince Edward Island, Canada will perform. For the last decade, Richard and Gordon have been performing and touring as a duo. Enthusiastic audiences have been taken on a roller coaster ride of exhilarating – even exhausting – jigs and reels, strathspeys and hornpipes, and beautiful airs, many composed by Richard himself. This is complimented by Gordon’s engaging songs, some humorous and some poignant, warming things up for the next fiddle blaze, $20/advance, $25/door, Bangor Arts Exchange, 193 Exchange Street, Bangor. FMI: 207-200-6881, bangorartsexchange.org.