NEWCASTLE Love stories come in many shapes and forms. “Ghost-Writer,” Heartwood Regional Theater Company’s newest production, unfolds a rare opportunity to linger over a love story told with masterful subtlety. To avoid marring this craftsmanship, here are selective details of the plot. If you desire more, please go to Heartwood’s website, www.heartwoodtheater.org. “Ghost-Writer” develops in […]

BATH — On Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 6:30 p.m., Sandi Amorello will be reading from and signing copies of her new memoir, “The Irreverent Widow: Shockingly True Tales of Love, Death and Dating — with Children in Tow,” at Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St. The program is free and open to the public; Bath […]

BRUNSWICK — Two Portlandbased outfits, Pete Miller and Band and Sorcha & The Clearing, are teaming up at the Frontier Café, 14 Maine St., Mill 3, Fort Andross, for an 8 p.m. show of original roots music on Saturday, Feb. 2. A news release describes the musicians as follows: A blend of indie, pop and […]

FREEPORT — Greater Freeport Community Chorus new season has begun and new singers are invited to join. The chorus is a non-auditioned, adult chorus under the direction of Virgil Bozeman of Richmond High School and District 3. Dues are waived for high school students. Rehearsals are Sundays from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Freeport […]

BRUNSWICK — The Theater Project Professional Ensemble is pleased to once again present their mostlyannual Winter Cabaret, running tonight through Feb. 10. Winter Cabaret is sketch comedy at its best — the funny, frantic, slightly bawdy sort you’ve come to love from The Theater Project, a news release said. This year the group, who have […]

BRUNSWICK — Occupy Maine: Bath-Brunswick, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, and PeaceWorks are all sponsoring a showing of the film “Bottled Life — The Truth about Nestlé’s Business with Water” at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 3 p.m. A news release describes the film as follows: Swiss […]

TOPSHAM — Opposites attract as the Woodside One Wheelers present a benefit concert, Saturday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Orion Performing Arts Center, 66 Republic Road. The show will start with Woodside’s Assistant Principal Chris Lajoie’s bluegrass band, “String Tide”; include a small performance by the Woodside One Wheelers; and feature the very […]

TOPSHAM — Fiber artist Susan Mills will give an artist’s talk in reference to her show “Night Travels” at Maine Fiberarts, 13 Main St., from 5 to 7 p.m. tonight. “Night Travels” is on display at the gallery through Feb. 15, Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. […]

LEWISTON — “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” a Sherlock Holmes spoof produced by The Public Theatre, begins tonight at 7:30 p.m. A news release describes the play as follows: In the style of “The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged),” a three-man theatrical troupe sets out to tour the country with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s […]

PORTLAND — Vivid Motion Inc., Portland’s “innovative and kinda quirky” dance company, is holding a dance audition for its upcoming spring show, “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad,” on Sunday, Jan. 27, from 10 a.m. to noon at its studio in the Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St., Westbrook. No formal preparation is needed; the audition […]