This week we inaugurate our new Friday night film series discussions, launch a new season from the National Theatre in London, hold auditions for a series of play readings, screen a couple of great films, broadcast our free closing sports events of the 2014 season, and have a Beatles tribute band perform live on the Lincoln Theater stage.

Friday Night Films: Dessert, Drinks and Dish

Through the end of September, please join us on Friday nights at Van Lloyd's Bistro on Parking Lot Lane after our Lincoln Theater opening night screening of our latest feature. We'll enjoy specially-priced desserts and drinks while we dish about the film. Receive a 20 percent discount off wine, beer, coffee and desserts from 9 to 10:30 p.m. by showing your movie stub or Lincoln Theater membership card.

“Boyhood” (R, 2 hours 45 minutes)

Radical in its conceit, familiar in its everyday details, Richard Linklater’s masterpiece follows a boy, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who’s six when the story opens 18 when it ends. In between, he goes to school; argues with his sister, Samantha (Lorelei Linklater); and watches his mother, Olivia (Patricia Arquette), struggle with work and men, including her ex-husband, Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke). Shot over 12 consecutive years, the film exists at the juncture of classical cinema and the modern art film without being slavishly indebted to either tradition. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. and Thursday, Sept. 4 at 2 p.m. Presented in partnership with Van Lloyd’s Bistro.

LCCT season auditions - All are invited.

Our second night of auditions for LCCT’s new “Sundays without Scenery” play reading series, and other offerings of the new season: Thursday, Sept. 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Porter Hall at Skidompha Library. Additional information can be found on the theater’s website and Facebook page.

NT Live: “Medea” (1 hour 45 minutes, no intermission)

A new season of live theater from the National Theatre in London kicks off Thursday with Euripides’ powerful tragedy, Medea. Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace - and exacts an appalling revenge, destroying everything she holds dear. The cast includes Helen McCrory, Michaela Coel, Danny Sapani and Cath Whitefield. Plays Thursday, Sept. 4 at 7 p.m.

“Magic in the Moonlight” (PG-13, 1 hour 40 minutes)

Set in the 1920s on the opulent Riviera in the south of France, Woody Allen's “Magic in the Moonlight” is a romantic comedy about a master magician (Colin Firth) trying to expose a psychic medium (Emma Stone) as a fake. A series of events follow that are magical in every sense of the word and send the characters reeling. In the end, the biggest trick is the one that fools us all. Playing at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 5, Sunday, Sept. 7, Tuesday, Sept. 9 and Wednesday, Sept. 10; Saturday, Sept. 6 at noon, Thursday, Sept. 11 at 2 and 7 p.m. Presented in partnership with The Endless Spa.

Beatles for Sale

Beatles for Sale is an award-winning, New England-based Beatles tribute band that is committed to recreating the sounds of the Beatles live in concert. This band of talented musicians was drawn together by their love of Beatles music and the desire to keep the music alive, bringing it to a whole new generation of Beatles fans. Come and hear your favorites, one night only, Saturday, Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m.

U.S. Open Finals

The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament that since 1987 has been the fourth and final tennis major comprising the Grand Slam each year. Women’s Finals Sunday, Sept. 7 at 4:30 p.m.; Men’s Finals Monday, Sept. 8 at 5 p.m. These are free events, made possible through the generosity of the Genada Foundation.

Coming soon

National Theatre Live continues on Tuesday Sept. 16, with Gillian Anderson (of X-Files fame) in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.” “A Most Wanted Man,” with Philip Seymour Hoffman, opens Friday, Sept. 12; “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” with Helen Mirren, opens Friday, Sept. Friday 19; “Calvary” opens Friday, Sept. 26; and “A Trip to Italy” opens Friday, Oct. 3. The theater’s complete monthly schedule and information on all theater events are available at www.atthelincoln.org.

Check us out by viewing our Facebook page, calling the theater’s box office at 207-563-3424, or by dropping by for a visit. The office returns to regular hours in September, Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Be sure to sign up for our weekly e-blast, a listing of what's playing for the week. To sign up, just visit our website and click “contact” or send us an email at infoatatthelincoln.org. The Lincoln Theater is located at 2 Theater Street in downtown Damariscotta. Curtain going up!