Community Calendar

✨🎂 Better Biddeford presents: Birthday-themed Community Parties 🎊🎶🎉

Whether it's your birthday or not- come, bring friends, and make new ones! These parties will be held on the third Thursday of each month. Our first partnership is with Lucky Pigeon Brewing Co & we're so excited to have our parties there! The food will be potluck birthday cakes, pies, treats, & snacks, there will be games and prizes- with our grand prize at the end of the night being a tinfoil sculpture from local artist, Robert the Tinman! Drink specials if it's your birthday month! Come join the party! ✨🎂🎊🎶🎉

Join us at Owlbear's Rest to learn new games and make friends who ALSO love games!
Every other Wednesday: Weekly One-Shots with Kass! Join Owlbear staff member Kass to play a game that can be completed in one session.
Thursdays: The Teach Series! Owlbear staff member Drew will lead a variety of games so that you will know how to play them with friends in the future!
Ages: 14+
$10 at the door

Join us for a hilarious journey in our Comedy Series, where laughter is guaranteed! Each month, the show promises to deliver a unique blend of wit, charm, and relatable humor that will keep you entertained from start to finish. Don’t miss out on the fun—come and experience the joy of comedy like never before!

Cost:
• FREE for UMA students, employees, and alumni with family and friends.
• $10 for community members (at the door).

Upcoming Events:
• Michelle Lisi: Thursday, November 20th at 6pm (www.uma.edu/event/comedy-series-2/)

In Farber Forum, Jewett Hall Auditorium, 46 University Drive Augusta, ME 04330.

11/20: UMA’s very own Michelle Lisi is a feminist Jewish comic from New York who lives in a haunted old house in Midcoast Maine. Her material centers on the joys of middle-aged domesticity and the benefits of sarcasm. She has performed in comedy festivals in Maine, North Carolina, and Montreal and was the featured comic of the 2025 Maine Women’s Lobby Hootenanny. Michelle was a semifinalist for New England’s 2024 Funniest Comic and is a regular on local lineups with the Portland Media Center, Gals and Pals, In Utero, and the Misfits. Please don’t tell anyone you know about this show. She’s kind of shy.

Step into a magical forest full of music, mischief, and a little bit of danger! The Osher Opera Theatre brings to life Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel—a beloved opera based on the classic fairy tale.

With colorful characters, a sweeping score, and moments both funny and heartfelt, this opera tells the story of two siblings who get lost in the woods and find themselves in the clutches of a mysterious witch. Will they find their way home? Or become part of her next meal?

Perfect for opera fans of all ages!

Tickets go on-sale September 5th.

Tickets available through PortTIX, the official box office for the Osher School of Music.

PHONE 207-842-0800
ONLINE www.porttix.com
IN-PERSON 400 Congress St Suite A, Portland, ME 04101

Disability Access and Accommodations

If you have questions about disability access or need to request disability accommodations (e.g. sign language interpreters, materials in electronic format, etc.), please contact Hanna Flewelling at (207) 780-5256 or hanna.flewelling@maine.edu. Requests should be made as soon as possible to allow sufficient time for the accommodation process.

This new Beginners Contra Dance series is a small, casual contra dance, suitable for newbies and experienced dancers alike! Dance or join in the open band with any instrument. $5 suggested, no charge for musicians. Chem-free event!

These dances are generally 1st, 3rd & 5th Thursdays of the month at the Surry Grange, 1229 Surry Rd. See calendar at surrycontra.org or follow @SurryContraDance on FB / IG

This dance is part of the Surry Contra Dance series. Join us every 2nd Saturday of the month for the full contra experience!

The Cape Elizabeth High School Theater Program proudly announces the upcoming performances of The Addams Family Musical, a spooky, yet sweet musical with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and directed by Christine Marshall, Director of the High School’s Theater Program with Music Director, Joanne Lee, and Technical Director Stephen Price. Running from Thursday, November 20, 2025, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the Cape Elizabeth High School Auditorium, this production promises to captivate audiences with its hilarious and heartwarming story exploring the wackiness in every family. Performances are scheduled on Thursday through Saturday evenings at 7:00 p.m., with matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 with a special price of $5 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased through https://givebutter.com/AddamsTix.

The musical features an original story and a dilemma that’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before—keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

“The Addams Family Musical shows a family of characters who are proud of their individuality,” said Director Marshall. “Our students are thrilled to share this with our community.” Don’t miss your chance to experience The Addams Family Musical at the Cape Elizabeth High School auditorium.

For more details on the production and to purchase tickets, visit www.cehstheaterboosters.com or contact the Cape Elizabeth High School Boosters at cehstheater@gmail.com. Join us for a fun night of theater.

Coming NOVEMBER 13-22 to Footlights Theatre: MRS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON by Linda Britt and starring Jackie Oliveri as Margaret Chase Smith. RESERVATIONS: (207) 747-5434. $25. ABOUT: A bold and timely play starring Jackie Oliveri as Margaret Chase Smith—Maine’s trailblazing congresswoman and senator who stood tall in a time of political fear and silence. The first woman elected to both the U.S. House and Senate, Smith was a proud Republican, a Skowhegan native, and a centrist who believed in consensus over chaos. This tour-de-force celebrates a political pioneer who brought out the best in people… and in politics. THU 7, FRI 730, SAT 2 & 730

Mainers tend to take care of their own business, much to the chagrin of Gerard, the only cop on the island. When he finds evidence of foul play surrounding a recent death, things go hilariously amok and Gerard finds there's something sinister hiding behind the cozy vacation town he grew up in. Join us for this side-splitting comedy about murder and mayhem in Maine!

"[Askari] keeps the laughs coming fast and furiously in his new work." – Bangor Daily News

TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 16, 2025

The Maine Gesualdo Project is a new historically informed music ensemble dedicated to the madrigal books of 16th century composer Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza. Gesualdo’s work was anything but usual for its time. His chromaticism, noted by one scholar for its ‘tormented, pathological excesses’, was conceived for the ears of an educated elite of performers and listeners, likewise his intricate counterpoint. His habitual choice of texts dealing with emotional extremes and torments informed his musical language.

Gesualdo’s First Book of Madrigals reveals the young prince at his most passionate and human — weaving love, longing, and light into intricate polyphony. Though rooted in Renaissance grace, these pieces already shimmer with the tension and daring chromaticism that would later define his unmistakable voice.

Artists include Molly Harmon (soprano), Jenna Guiggey (mezzo-soprano), James M Brown (countertenor), Aaren Rivard (tenor), and Paul Jessen (bass)

The Squirrels is a tragi-comical epic of prejudice and greed among squirrels living in a very divided tree.