BRUNSWICK — Curtis Memorial Library will screen four classic “Screwball Comedies” on Friday nights in March. The films will be show in the Morrell Meeting Room. Admission is free. Refreshments, including mocktails and popcorn, will be served. The series will open at 7:30 p.m. March 2 with “My Man Godfrey,” starring William Powell and Carole […]

TOPSHAM Ray Cornils will mark the 25th year as minister of music at First Parish Church on March 4 when he leads the 80-voice First Parish Choir in a performance of Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation.” The choir will be joined by nationally recognized soloists Jayne West, soprano, Jason McStoots, tenor, and Robert Honeysucker, baritone. […]

ROCKPORT The Strand Theatre and The Saltwater Film Society will host the sixth annual Oscar bash Sunday evening. Beginning with the Red Carpet Preshow at 6:30 p.m., the free event will feature coverage via high definition digital projection system at the Strand, according to a release. During the Academy Awards, scheduled to begin at 8 […]

The Times Record FREEPORT Freeport Factory Stage’s production of Tennessee Williams’ drama, “The Glass Menagerie,” plays through Feb. 25. A release from the theater company describes the production as follows: “The Glass Menagerie” is a play about family bonds — what ties us to the past, what haunts us and what happens to dreamers when […]

The Times Record BATH Bath native and former Patten Free Library employee Morgan Callan Rogers will read from her book and sign copies of her debut novel, “ Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea,” at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 29 in the library on Summer Street. Copies of the book will be available for […]

YARMOUTH North Yarmouth Academy will stage “HONK!,” a musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “ The Ugly Duckling,” on Feb. 24, 25 and 26. Local students with roles in the production include Alex Paige of Brunswick, Hadley Gibson of Freeport, Louisa Mahoney of Freeport, Iszi Mickunas of West Bath, Tess Hinchman of West Bath and […]

DAMARISCOTTA — Lincoln County Community Theater will present a comedic stage production, “Sex in the 60s: an Evening of FourPlay( s),” beginning March 2 at Lincoln Theater. The production “ takes a humorous look at the familiar yet often taboo subject of sex, filtered through the lens of the 1960s, when the prudish 1950s were […]

LONDON Silent movie “The Artist” had a night to shout about Sunday, winning seven prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards. Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars rewarded the French homage to old Hollywood over a homegrown favorite, espionage thriller “ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” “The Artist,” a black-andwhite picture that has charmed […]