Film and Theater

For one night only, downtown Damariscotta will be filled with laughter as Lincoln Theater welcomes members of the cast and crew of the independent film project “…

Two extraordinary documentaries are at The Lincoln this week: the Kendal Mountain Film Fest and “Moonage Daydream” the incredible David Bowie big screen documentary from filmmaker Brett Morgen.…

“The Good House” - (R; 1 hour, 43 minutes) -  A terrifically entertaining comedy/drama with fabulous performances by luminous stars Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline that’s…

The fifth season of Lincoln Theater’s Classic Film Club kicks off this week with “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” returning to the big screen for its 40th anniversary. Bring the whole family to…

“A Love Song”  – (PG; 1 hour, 21 minutes) - Faye (Dale Dickey) is a lone traveler biding her time fishing, birding and stargazing at a rural Colorado campground as she awaits the…

The world famous Kendal Mountain Festival Tour is coming to American cinemas for the first time in its 42-year history and will be screening at Damariscotta’s…
There’s still time to enroll in this year’s Classic Film Club at the Lincoln Theater. In season five, we are celebrating Pre-Code Hollywood, featuring stars of the golden age, from Barbara…

Thandiwe Newton, Emmy award winning actress for her portrayal of Maeve Millay in the HBO series Westworld, stars in the simmering thriller “God’s Country,” opening this Friday. Based on James Lee…

Kim Martin of Eventide Specialties planned a Food ‘n Film Series in March 2020 which was to open the night we closed for COVID! Now we are finally able to offer this series on three Mondays in…

Starting Oct. 10 the theater will be open five days a week closing Monday and Tuesday, except for special events. 

Don’t miss…

Acorn Productions, producers of the annual Maine Playwrights Festival, announces that they have begun accepting scripts for this year’s 21st edition of the state’s long-running incubator for new…

Maine author Kay Stephens will be signing copies of her lobstering novel, “The Ghost Trap,” which was shot as a feature film this past summer all over the Midcoast.
 
As…

“Fire of Love” - (PG; 1 hour, 33 minutes) -  “Fire of Love” tells the story of two French lovers, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing…

“See How They Run” - (PG-13; 1 hour, 38 minutes) -  This rollicking comedy and take off on earlier whodunits is set in the West End of 1950s London when plans for a movie version…

Waldo Theatre

An inspiring bike-centric community film event is happening at the Waldo Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 25. The award-winning film, “Motherload,” is a crowdsourced documentary in which the cargo bicycle…

Waldo Theater

The Waldo announces new theatre education programs for youth and adults consisting of 10-week after school and early evening classes beginning in October. Each of the four fall courses being…

Harbor Theater

Experts consider the 1960s as the decade in which Hollywood produced some of the most interesting, and artistically valuable films of all times. It was the last decade before “blockbusters” took…

Boothbay and New Harbor residents, 10 year-old Charlotte Ramsdell and her mother, Carol, are members of the cast of “The Music Man, which runs through this weekend at the Chocolate Church Arts…

Lincoln Theater is bringing two “hot” events to the big screen. First up, a documentary of the love story between two volcanologists and the hundreds of hours of footage they left behind. “Fire of…

Storytree Theatre at the Merry Barn - Ready, Set, PLAY! - $250. This 11-week series begins Tuesday, Sept. 27: Kids in grades 1-4 (Tuesdays, 3:30 to 5 p.m.) and …

What could possibly be better than a good summer Shakespeare production? An encore!

Back by popular demand, The River Company has partnered with both The Waldo Theatre in Waldoboro and…

This has become a fun night for a lot of families. For “The Goonies,” approximately 84 cars filled the Meadow Mall parking lot. Cartoons started at 7:45 p.m. and the film around 8.

“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” – (PG-13; 1 hour, 55 minutes) - This film takes a definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the…

Lincoln Theater
Melted boots on smoking lava flows and dancing by craters amidst volcanic eruptions are just two of the extraordinary things you’ll witness in “Fire of Love,” rated PG, opening at Lincoln…

“Where the Crawdads Sing” -  (PG-13; 2 hours, 5 minutes) -  From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned…

“Top Gun: Maverick” - (PG-13; 2 hours, 11 minutes) -  After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he…

Ready, Set, PLAY!

Join Teralyn Reiter, founder of Storytree Theatre and teaching artist extraordinaire, for an 11-week theatre journey. Under Teralyn's gentle guidance, kids will write,…

River Company's zany production of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” extends its run with shows at the Waldo and Lincoln theaters!

Performances at the Waldo, 916 Main…

Harbor Theater

Phil Grabsky, director of the popular Exhibition on Screen art films shown at Harbor Theater, and his co-director Shoaib Sharifi, have just won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (…

“Elvis” - (PG-13; 2 hours, 39 minutes) - The film explores the life and music of Elvis Presley (Austin Butler), seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his…

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” - (PG;  1 hour, 30 minutes) - Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their…

Pack up the lawn chairs, pillows and blankets and head for the Meadow Mall for a drive-in movie.

Yes, Harbor Theater is bringing another free drive-in to the Mall parking lot this Sunday,…

Harbor Theater

“Adorable,” “Delightful,” “Quirky” and “Winsome.”  Who could bear to miss getting acquainted with Marcel? The Harbor Theater and Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library  are partnering to bring Marcel…

“Brian and Charles” - (PG; 1 hour, 30 minutes) -  An endearing outlier, Brian lives alone in a Welsh valley, inventing oddball contraptions that seldom work. After finding a…

This week we bring you a special one night only presentation of the documentary film “Art is Not A Solace,” welcoming artist Alan Magee and filmmaker David Berez to our stage for a talkback…

Remember what fun we all had at the Harbor Theater drive-in the last two summers? Due to public demand, we are doing it again, one more time, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 8 p.m.

If there was ever a film to see on one of the biggest movie screens in the state of Maine, its “Top Gun: Maverick.” If you’ve already seen it, you know you want to see it again. And if you haven’t…

Alan Magee
Lincoln Theater is pleased to welcome artist Alan Magee and filmmaker David Berez for a special presentation of their film, “Art is not a Solace,” Thursday, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m.
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“Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris” – (PG; 1 hour, 56 minutes) – The film based on the novel by Paul Gallico that appears to have stepped right out of another era. A longtime widow and…

“Minions: The Rise of Gru” – (PG; 1 hour, 27 minutes) – Final two shows! After an absence of five years, those crazy little guys in their blue and yellow suits are on the screen…

Harbor Theater

Several of us from Harbor Theater went to see the iconic “Chinatown” (1974) at the recent Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) in Waterville and were “blown away” by what a great…

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” - (1981 - PG; 1 hour, 55 minutes) - What better way to celebrate summer than with some old favorites on the big screen! Lincoln Theater is pleased to…

Star stuff. It's all about star stuff and imagination, in Heartwood's tour de force production of the Tony…

“Minions: The Rise of Gru” – (PG; 1 hour, 27 minutes) - In this version, Gru (Steve Carell), long before he becomes the master of evil, is just a 12-year-old boy in 1970s suburbia…

Where It’s At

“Why, this is very midsummer madness.” - So said Olivia in Act 3, Scene 4 of “Twelfth Night;” and so will you when you come to River Company’s production of “The Complete Works of William…

Maine State Music Theatre and Portland Stage will once again team up to present a co-production of “Smoke on the Mountain” Aug. 2-28. 

The show tells the hilarious and heartwarming story…

“Peter and the Starcatcher” is a veritable treasure chest sparkling under the lights, as the lid lifts and the contents are discovered…

After a successful launch in 2019, the third season of The MidCoast Film Fest sets sail on Friday, July 29 and continues through Sunday, July 31. Join us in kicking off the weekend with an opening…

The Lincoln Theater’s very own film festival, The MidCoast Film Fest, is taking place this weekend beginning Friday, July 29 and continuing through Sunday, July 31.…

“Where the Crawdads Sing” – (NR; 2 hours, 5 minutes) - Stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kya, a young woman who survives abandonment by her mother and abuse from her father to make a life for herself in…