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Ashton Sanders stars in “Moonlight” playing at The Harbor Theatre. Courtesy of Jason Sheckley

The Harbor Theatre

“Elle” - Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling gamea game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

With English subtitles the film stars Academy Award nominee for Best Actress, Isabelle Huppert. The actress did win a Golden Globe award in both the best actress and best actress in a foreign film for this role - and many more.

“Elle” plays at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 8 and Thursday, March 9.

“Les Contes D’Hoffman” - Luther’s tavern in a German town. The poet Hoffmann is in love with Stella, the star singer of the opera. Lindorf, a rich counselor, also loves her and has intercepted a note she has written to Hoffmann. Lindorf is confident he will win her for himself. Entering with a group of students, Hoffmann sings a ballad about a disfigured dwarf named Kleinzach. During the song, his mind wanders to recollections of a beautiful woman. When Hoffmann recognizes Lindorf as his rival, the two men trade insults. Hoffmann’s Muse, who has assumed the guise of his friend Nicklausse, interrupts, but the encounter leaves the poet with a sense of impending disaster. He begins to tell the stories of his three past loves ... This MET opera screens Wednesday, March 8 at 2 p.m. Tickets go on sale one hour before curtain.

“Moonlight” - The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man's struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality. At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, “Moonlight” is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths.

Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Barry Jenkins’s staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.

“Moonlight” has won numerous awards, including this year's "Best Picture" Academy Award. Rated R (for some sexuality, drug use, brief violence, and language throughout), it plays at 7 p.m. Friday, March 10, Saturday, March 11, Wednesday, March 15 and Thursday, March 16; and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 12.

The Harbor Theatre is located at 185 Townsend Avenue in Boothbay Harbor. For more information call 633-0438 or visit www.harbortheatre.net.

Lincoln Theater

“20th Century Women” - During the summer of 1979, a Santa Barbara single mom and boardinghouse landlord (Annette Bening) decides the best way she can parent her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann) is to enlist her young tenants to serve as role models in a changing world. Rated R. Playing Wednesday, March 8 at 2 and 7 p.m.

NT Live: “Hedda Gabler” - Just married. Buried alive. Hedda longs to be free...Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel. Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic Theatre) returns to National Theatre Live screens with a modern production of Ibsen’s masterpiece. Screens live on Thursday, March 9 at 2 pm., rebraodcast at 7 p.m.

The Met Live in HD: “Verdi’s La Traviata” - "The 'Vulnerable Woman' in 19th-Century Opera" is the title of Saturday’s pre-opera talk. Violetta could almost be considered a poster girl for the downtrodden heroine in opera and melodrama. A brief survey of the character type, which also includes "fallen" and frail women, with special emphasis on one of Verdi's greatest works. After the talk, Sonya Yoncheva brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valéry to Live in HD audiences for the first time, opposite rising American tenor Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo in Verdi’s popular classic. Playing Saturday, March 11, pre-opera talk at 11:45 a.m., opera at 1 p.m.

Theater Closed - The theater will be closed on Friday, March 10, Wednesday, March 15 and Thursday, March 16, while we prepare for “Mary Poppins – In Concert!”

Ain’t it a glorious day when Mary Poppins, Bert, Mr. and Mrs. Banks, The Banks’ children Jane and Michael and a whole host of servants, bankers, chimney sweeps and more take to the stage for this musical rendition of Mary Poppins based on the Disney movie and the stories of P.L. Travers. Playing Friday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 18 at 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 19 at 2 p.m.

The Lincoln Theater is located at 2 Theater Street, Damariscotta. For more information, call 207-563-3424 or visit www.atthelincoln.org.