Maine Events - Waterville Festivals and Events

Art

50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art

5600 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 859-5600

Aug 23 thru Feb 21, 2010. The Colby College Museum of Art celebrates its 50th anniversary with a museum-wide exhibition of its collection. Art at Colby: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art features artworks from the museum's collections of American, European, Asian, and contemporary art, and is accompanied by an audio tour and a richly illustrated book of collection highlights, with essays by a wide range of scholars and artists.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Farmers Markets

Waterville Farmers' Market

Appleton Street
Waterville, Maine
Phone: (207) 680-2055

Jan 01 thru Dec 31, 2009. The Downtown Waterville Farmers' Market runs year round. From May 1 through November 30 it is open on Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Concourse on Appleton Street. Winter hours are from 2 to 4 p.m. For info phone (207) 680-2055.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Festivals

Parade of Lights

Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 680-2055

Nov 27, 2009. Come watch as the Parade of Lights sparkles and shines in Downtown Waterville. The parade brings Santa to town and ends with the lighting of the giant spruce in Castonguay Square. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. For info phone (207) 680-2055.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Music

Bela Fleck & The Africa Project - Waterville Opera House

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Feb 26, 2010. Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck (Buy His Music) joins forces with amazing African musicians to bring you a once in a lifetime musical experience. Performance at 8 p.m.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Enter the Haggis - Waterville Opera House

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Mar 12, 2010. After a brilliant show in 2009, Enter the Haggis returns for a repeat performance. Not for the faint of heart, Enter The Haggis's live show is a musical feast: viscerally dynamic, emotionally uplifting and intellectually stimulating. The band's oeuvre darts effortlessly from the traditional strains of, say, The Chieftains and the Pogues to the frenetic pop of early Elvis Costello and even to the Latin-tinged spirit of the Buena Vista Social Club, and beyond. Come out early and celebrate in style, complete with Lewington's deft guitar playing, the reeling of Brian Buchanan's flawless fiddle, the diverse rhythmic machinations of bassist Mark Abraham and drummer James Campbell, and Craig Downie's transporting pipes, not to mention the near-perfect vocal harmonies.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

6th Annual Knock on Wood GuitarFest - Waterville Opera House

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Apr 24, 2010. Join us in welcoming to central Maine some of the world's most accomplished and innovative guitar players. In just five short years, Guitarfest has presented masters of the instrument - G.E. Smith, Ed Gerhard, Duke Robillard, and many others - in performance and workshop settings.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Seize the Mic Karaoke Contest - Waterville Opera House

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

May 01, 2010. Waterville Main Street invites you to experience central Maine's premiere Karaoke competition, Seize the Mic 2010! This unique event consists of a series of qualifying rounds hosted at various local establishments, a semi-finals and a finals hosted at the historic Waterville Opera House.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Other

Kringleville in Waterville

Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 680-2055

Nov 27 thru Dec 23, 2009. One of Downtown's oldest traditions. Parents, bring your children to visit Santa at his Waterville home, Kringleville in Castonguay Square.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Author Neil Rolde - Muskie Community Center

38 Gold Street
Waterville, Maine
Phone: (207) 873-4745

Dec 03, 2009. Author Neil Rolde will give a talk and sign his new book, Maine in the World: Stories of Some of Those from Here Who Went Away. The talk is at 1 p.m. and a book sale/signing will follow.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Theater

Doubt - ACAT (Waterville Opera House Studio Theater)

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Nov 13 thru Nov 22, 2009. Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexually abusing a student, she is faced with the prospect of charging him with unproven allegations and possibly destroying his career as well as her own.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus - Waterville Opera House

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Nov 27 thru Dec 06, 2009. Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Clause by Andrew J. Fenady. Based on the Teleply by Val DeCrowl and Andrew J. Fenady. Inspired by a simple, poignant letter written over 100 years ago by 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon to the editor of the New York Sun-and by the timelss editorial response printed on the front page of the Sun. Virginia wondered and wrote: "Dear Editor, I am eight years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says if you see him in the Sun, it's so. Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?" Ed Mitchell, the Sun's editor, gives the assignment of answering Virginia's question to Frank Church,who, until his wife and baby died last Christmas Eve, was the Sun's best and most dependable reporter. Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus is a play for young and old, magically reaffirming life's highest beauty and joy-"the eternal light with which childhood fills the world.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

King O' the Moon - Waterville Opera House (Studio Theater)

Studio Theater 93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Jan 22 thru Jan 31, 2010. Over The Tavern - Part II King o' the Moon transports the Pazinskis from the conservative '50s to the rebellious '60s. Rudy, now 22, is a seminary student honoring his father's deathbed wish that his son should become a priest, Brother Eddie is married, on the brink of fatherhood, and about to ship out for Vietnam. As the play opens on July 18, 1969, Apollo 11 is about to land on the moon; Rudy has gone AWOL from the seminary to participate in his first anti-war protest; Sister Annie is contemplating divorce; and romance is blooming for Rudy's widowed mom, Ellen. The new play--like the decade in which it is set--has a greater urgency and sharper realism than its predecessor, as the adult Pazinskis tackle grown-up issues like divorce, remarriage, war and draft-evasion.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Nunsentations! The Vegas Review- Waterville Opera House

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Feb 05 thru Feb 14, 2010. Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue takes the sisters on a brand new adventure. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Las Vegas, Mother Superior is hesistant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. What follows is the most feather-filled, sequin-studded, fan dancing Nunsense show ever! Performing in "The Pump Room" at the Mystique Motor Lodge, the sisters experience show-biz like never before. You'll meet Sin-City Sue, find out who's Black and White with Her Money on Red, and try to win a new car with the Holy Rollers Giant Slot Machine. Taking a line from another show, a critic pointed out, "It's a whole lot funny and a little bit naughty, but there ain't nothin' dirty goin' on!"   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

6th Annual Dessert Theater - Waterville Opera House

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Mar 05 thru Mar 06, 2010. Enjoy a tasty night out in the R.E.M. Art Space adjacent to our Studio Theater. This 6th annual edition will be a fun-filled night with great laughs, great food and great company. There will be delightful entertainment and an opportunity to indulge in decadent desserts created by a local chef. A cash bar will also be available.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Love Song - ACAT (Waterville Opera House Studio Theater)

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Mar 12 thru Mar 21, 2010. ACAT presents: Love Song, by John Kolvenbach, focuses on Beane, an introverted, morbid and slightly lost character and his better-adjusted sister Joan. Whilst for Beane, social interaction is baffling, his sister's trials are in her stressful, professional life where she is "surrounded by dipsticks" and she takes four-minute lunch breaks. Having just fired another intern, this time for tears after a misfiling incident, her contempt for the incompetent is hilarious: "Is it too hard to staple?" Directed by Doree Austin.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

Camelot - Waterville Opera House

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Apr 09 thru Apr 18, 2010. The entire community of Camelot awaits the arrival of Guenevere, King Arthur of England's future Queen. Members of the audience are quickly drawn in. Some of the enchanting musical numbers include The Simple Joys of Maidenhood, The Lusty Month of May, How to Handle a Woman, I Loved You Once in Silence, If Ever I Would Leave You, and What Do the Simple Folk Do? In the end it is fourteen-year-old Tom who tells the world of Camelot's quest for right and honor and justice. As the first Broadway musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe after My Fair Lady, Camelot was as highly anticipated as a coronation. At the time, the advance sale was the largest in Broadway history. The 1960 musical, which turned out to be the last Lerner and Loewe theatrical collaboration, has grown in stature over the years, primarily because of its superb score.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

45 Seconds from Broadway - Waterville Opera House

Studio Theater 93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

May 07 thru May 16, 2010. Forty-five seconds is the amount of time it takes to walk to Broadway from this Neil Simon play's setting, a coffee shop off the lobby of midtown-Manhattan's tourist-class Edison Hotel. Comedian Mickey Fox holds center stage, along with the dining spot's proprietor and his wife, an upscale society dame and her nearly mute husband, a British impresario, a Broadway ingenue, and a South African playwright. One-liners fly through the comic first act; the play takes on a more serious note in Act II, when Mickey's older brother pleads with him to help his son become the comedian he desperately wants to be.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update

I Ought To Be In Pictures - ACAT (Waterville Opera House Studio Theater)

93 Main Street
Waterville, Maine 04901
Phone: (207) 873-7000

Jun 04 thru Jun 13, 2010. ACAT presents I Ought To Be In Pictures, a Neil Simon three-character comedy-drama focuses on Herb, a struggling, writer's-blocked screenwriter who abandoned his family sixteen years earlier. Now daughter Libby has arrived on the West Hollywood doorstep of the father she barely remembers convinced he can jump start the film acting career she desires. Dispensing guilt and demanding love, she not only forces Herb to deal with the responsibilities of parenthood, but to come to terms with his on-again/off-again relationship with adoring girlfriend Steffy as well. Directed by Michael Jinbo.   Map + Directions   |   Report Update