BATH Bah humbug. Ebenezer Scrooge is back and ornerier than ever. Studio Theatre of Bath is bringing back the old geezer to the Chocolate Church, 804 Washington St., this Christmas season in the form of Leslie Bricusse’s one-act musical play, “Scrooge.” The show was performed in 2008 and director Wayne Otto was eager to do […]

BRUNSWICK — The Theater Project is full of story, song and laughter, as three events bring home the holiday season: A Young Company production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” by Barbara Robinson, the Theater’s annual “Wales & Tales” production and “Stories with Phyllis and Al” on Christmas Eve morning. The first holiday offering at […]

BRUNSWICK — The Spacious Vision Song Project 2012 will present a program of songs and arias for the Christmas season at Bowdoin College’s King Chapel on Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Internationally-acclaimed singers Barbara Kilduff and Gerald Seminatore will be joined by pianist Brian Moll in a festive program of songs and arias by Bach, […]

FREEPORT — Greater Freeport Community Chorus is busy preparing for its annual winter concert, “The Promise of Light,” with shows planned for Saturday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church, 40 Main St., Freeport, and Sunday, Dec. 16, at 2:30 p.m. at the Tuttle Road United Methodist Church, 52 Tuttle Road, Cumberland. […]

TOPSHAM — Cul de Sax saxophone quartet will present a concert of Christmas music Saturday at 7 p.m. at Mid-Coast Presbyterian Church, 84 Main St. The quartet of soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes will be joined by their friends Buckley Hugo also on sax and Frank Vigneau playing piano. They will perform in various […]

WISCASSET — A night of caroling in Downtown Wiscasset is planned for Thursday, Dec. 20. All those interested are invited to meet outside of Treats on Main Street at 6 p.m. for an hour of caroling. The shops will be open until 7 p.m. for the Think Outside the Box Passport campaign so there will […]

BATH — Patten Free Library’s fall film festival celebrating Paramount Pictures’ 100th anniversary concludes on Tuesday, Dec. 18, with Frank Capra’s holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore star in this 1946 box office bomb that went on to become one of the best-loved movies of all time. The […]

BRUNSWICK — Gulf of Maine Books, 134 Maine St., will host a poetry reading on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 4 p.m. The readers will be Camden poet Kristen Lindquist and Rockland poet Kendall Merriam, reading moon poems from their new collaborative book “Moon Viewing At 50 MPH,” a collection of 26 mooninspired poems by the […]

FREEPORT — Holiday music lovers will get to hear Portland’s community band, the Italian Heritage Center Concert Band, at a bigger, better venue this year. The band will perform “An All-American Christmas” at Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St., Saturday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. This will be the 25th holiday concert for the […]

HALLOWELL — Kennebec Valley Art Association presents its annual artist member’s Holiday Art Show and Sale starting today at the Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St. The public is invited to the opening tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. This holiday tradition dates back to the founding days of the Harlow Gallery in 1963. During this […]