• CLASSICAL MUSIC

TODAY

“Bach to Schumann,” with pianist Simone Dinnerstien, Rockport Opera House. $30 to $40; $8 for students. baychamberconcerts.org. 8 p.m.

DaPonte String Quartet, music by Borodin and Beethoven, Union Church, South Bristol. $25; free for ages 21 and under. 529-4555. 7:30 p.m. 

FRIDAY

DaPonte String Quartet, music by Borodin and Beethoven, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk. $25 to $30; free for ages 21 and under. 529-4555. 7:30 p.m.

Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, music by Beethoven, Schumann and Faure, Kneisel Hall, Blue Hill. $15. 374-2203. 7:30 p.m. Friday; 4 p.m. Sunday.

Young Stars of Maine, part of Bay Chamber Concerts’ Summer Series, Rockport Opera House. Free. 236-2823. 7 p.m. 

SUNDAY

“Cafe Vienna,” world premiere of opera by PORTopera’s Young Artists, the Temple, Ocean Park. $12. oceanpark.org. 7:30 p.m. 

TUESDAY

Felix Hell, plays the Kotzschmar Organ, Merrill Auditorium, Portland. $17; two tickets for $25; free for children under 12. foko.org. “Kotzschmar Konversations,” pre-concert chat, at 6:30 p.m.; concert at 7:30 p.m.

Summer Organ Concert Series, Ray Cornils plays 1883 Hutchings-Plaisted organ, First Parish Church United Church of Christ, Brunswick. $5/donation. 729-7331. Noon. 

WEDNESDAY

Met Summer Live in HD Encore Series, screening of Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment,” Fryeburg Academy (Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center), Fryeburg. $10 to $18. 935-9232. 6:30 p.m. 

JULY 14

Curtis On Tour and Time for Three, performing Mendelssohn’s Octet, Rockport Opera House. $30 to $45; $8 for students. baychamberconcerts.org. 8 p.m. 

• DANCE

Choreographer’s Showcase, original works by regional choreographers, Maine State Ballet Theater, Falmouth. $12. 781-3587. 7 p.m. Friday. 

• THEATER

“Narnia,” based on classic children’s book series, Schoolhouse Arts Center, Standish. $16, $18. schoolhousearts.org. 7:30 p.m. today to Saturday and July 14; 5 p.m. Sunday. Through July 24.

“Crazy for You,” Gershwin musical, Arundel Barn Playhouse. $28 to $39. 985-5552. 8 p.m. today, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and July 14; 2 and 8 p.m. Friday and Wednesday. Through July 16.

“Elizabeth Rex,” part of the Shakespeare in Stonington series, Deer Isle Historical Society. $15 to $25; free for island students. 367-2788. 7 p.m. today to Sunday and July 14. Through July 17.

“Annie,” Maine State Music Theatre production of classic musical based on the comic strip “Little Orphan Annie,” Bowdoin College (Pickard Theater), Brunswick. $33 to $56. msmt.org. 2 and 7:30 p.m. today, Tuesday and July 14; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Wednesday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Through July 16.

“Seussical the Musical,” based on Dr. Seuss’ children’s books, suitable for all ages, Boothbay Playhouse. $17 to $20. 633-3379. 8 p.m. today to Saturday.

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” bawdy musical comedy by Stephen Soundheim, Hackmatack Playhouse, Berwick. $10 to $25. 698-1807. 2 and 8 p.m. today and July 14; 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Wednesday. Through July 23.

“Summer of Love,” East Coast premiere of musical based on 1960s Haight-Asbury starring Michele Lee of TV’s “Knots Landing,” Ogunquit Playhouse. $53.50 to $76.50. (800) 982-2787. 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. today, Wednesday and July 14; 8 p.m. Friday and Tuesday; 3:30 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Through July 16.

“Dancing at Lughnasa,” Belfast Maskers Production of 1992 Tony Award-winning play, Steamboat Landing Park, Belfast. $5 to $15. 338-9668. 7 p.m. today to Saturday.

“The Mystery of Irma Vep,” campy comedy, Acadia Repertory Theatre, Mount Desert. $18 to $23; $10 for children under age 16. acadiarep.com. 8:15 p.m. today to Sunday and Tuesday to July 14. Through July 17.

“Much Ado About Nothing,” Shakespeare comedy in repertory, Stonington Opera House. $15 to $32.50. 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Through July 16.

“Sunday in the Park with George,” Stephen Sondheim musical, Lincoln Academy (Parker B. Poe Theater), Newcastle. $12 to $22. heartwoodtheater.org. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Through July 17.

National Marionette Theater presents “Pinocchio,” Fryeburg Academy (Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center), Fryeburg. $4 students; $8 adults. fryeburgacademy.org. 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday.

“Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement,” one-man show set on the eve of the 1960 presidential race, Lucid Stage, Portland. $15. 899-3993. 8 p.m. Saturday.

“Stanley’s Choice,” original one-act play by Millie Ackley of the Center Stage Players in Brunswick, Theater Project, Brunswick. $10/donation. 729-8584. 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday.

Defenders of the Funny, comedy improv, Lucid Stage, Portland. $7. 899-3993. 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

“The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged,” Theater at Monmouth. $10 to $24. theateratmonmouth.org. 7 p.m. Sunday. Through Aug. 17.

“Best of Broadway,” song and dance from Broadway shows choreographed by Debra Lombard, the Temple, Ocean Park. $5 to $12. 934-0687. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“Pirates of Penzance,” Freeport Players presentation of Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera, Freeport Performing Arts Center. $10 to $15. fcponline.org. Preview, 7:30 p.m. July 14. Through July 31.

A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” bring a love letter to someone you love and it will be read at the end of the each show, Sanford Maine Stage, Springvale. $12. sanfordmainestage.com. 8 p.m. July 14.

“Room Service,” farce about a group of actors who try to get a play produced before creditors shut them down, Theater at Monmouth. $10 to $24. theateratmonmouth.org. Preview, 7:30 p.m. July 14. Through Aug. 20. 

• ART MUSEUMS

OPENINGS/RECEPTIONS

“The Stone Coast,” sculptures by multiple artists, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay. mainegardens.org. Free reception, 5 to 7 p.m. today. Through Oct. 10.

Farnsworth Forum, annual event featuring one of America’s leading public intellectuals discussing the state of the art world, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. $18 to $23. 596-0949. Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum, 6 p.m. today.

“Indians and Rusticators: Wabanakis and Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island,” Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor. abbemuseum.org. Opening reception, 4 to 6 p.m. Friday. Through Dec. 28.

“American Modern,” photographs by Abbott, Evans and Bourke-White, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Opens Saturday. Through Oct. 2. 

CONTINUING

“Dahlov Ipcar: From the Drawing Board to the Page,” drawings and paintings, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay. mainegardens.org. Through Sunday.

“Critters,” exhibit of paintings and sculptures by more than 100 artists with an animal theme, University of New England (Art Gallery), Portland. 221-4499. Through July 20.

“The Plastic Ocean,” ceramics by Susan Schultz, Ogunquit Museum of American Art. ogunquitmuseum.org. Through July 31.

“Refashioned,” jackets, hairstyles and dresses reimagined as art by Lauren Gillette, Anne Lemanski and Angelika Werth, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through July 31.

“Cold Waters, Cold War: The 20th Century Navy in Maine,” artifacts and photos of U.S.-Soviet naval operations, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath. 443-1316. Through Aug. 7.

“Will Barnet at 100,” celebrating the 100th birthday of painter and summer Maine resident Will Barnet, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Aug. 14.

“Photo National 2011: A Survey of Contemporary Photography,” juried exhibit of works by 34 photographers, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor. 561-3350. Through Aug. 15.

“The Question of Drawing,” exhibit examines what drawing should be, Ogunquit Museum of American Art. ogunquitmuseum.org. Through Aug. 21.

“Voyages and the Great Age of Sail,” artifacts related to 19th-century Saco sea captain Tristram Jordan; also “Point of Departure,” works by Saco artist Diane Bowie Zaitlin, Saco Museum. dyerlibrarysacomuseum.org. Through Sept. 4.

“Selected Drawings and Photographs from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection,” Bates College (Olin Arts Center), Lewiston. 786-6158. Through Sept. 5.

“Emerging Dis/Order,” drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth and Andrea Sulzer, Bates College (Museum of Art), Lewiston. 786-6158. Through Sept. 10.

“Four in Maine: Drawings,” work by Mary Barnes, Emily Brown, John Moore and T. Allen Lawson, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Sept. 11.

“Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940,” paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs of Modernists who worked in Maine in the first half of the 20th century, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 11.

“Hopper’s Contemporaries: Artists in New England,” works by contemporaries of Edward Hopper, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick. bowdoin.edu. Through Sept. 11.

“Folk Art on High,” weather vane exhibit, Rufus Porter Museum, Bridgton. rufusportermuseum.org. Through Oct. 1.

“Inspired by Buddhism: Ancient Art from the Permanent Collection,” objects from Cambodia, China, Tibet, Korea and Japan, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Through Oct. 2.

“Exhibiting Whistler: A Tribute to David P. Becker,” prints by James McNeill Whistler, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Through Oct. 2.

“Little Elegies: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Mourning,” paintings, texts and objects created to assuage grief and memorialize the dead, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Through Oct. 2.

“Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled,” photographs of Detroit’s industrial decline and reclamation by nature, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Through Oct. 2.

“Alex Katz: Drawings,” ink and oil sketches and graphite drawings, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Through Oct. 2.

“Andrew and Jamie Wyeth: Selections from the Private Collection of Victoria Browning Wyeth,” paintings, Bates College (Olin Arts Center), Lewiston. 786-6158. Through Oct. 2.

“Paul Caponigro: The Hidden Presence of Places,” photographs, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457. Through Oct. 9.

“John Marin: Modernism at Mid-century,” work from painter Marin’s career between 1870 and 1953, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Oct. 10.

“Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World and the Olson House,” Farnsworth Art Museum (Wyeth Center), Rockland. farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Oct. 30. 

• ART GALLERIES

OPENINGS/RECEPTIONS

“In a Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak,” traveling exhibit of illustrations, York Public Library. 363-2818. Opens today. Through Aug. 19.

“Charting a Story: Martha Stewart’s Map Collection,” old maps of Mt. Desert from Stewart’s personal collection, College of the Atlantic (Ethel H. Blum Gallery), Bar Harbor. coa.edu. Opening reception, 5 to 7 p.m. today. Through July 23.

“Four Square,” new paintings, prints and collage in square format by Judith Long, Alan Mast, Ed McCartan and Ann Slocum, Points of View Art Gallery, Brunswick. 725-8920. Opening reception, 5 to 8 p.m. Friday. Through July 29.

“Art Night on the Cape,” monthly celebration of local artists, photographers and artisans, various locations, Cape Elizabeth. 767-8181. 6 to 8 p.m. Friday.

Lloyd Metcalf, “It Is What It Is,” West Buxton Public Library. 727-5898. Opening reception, 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. Through July 30.

East End Artists Seventh Annual Open Studios Tour and Art Sale, free self-guided walk, open studios will be marked with green, blue and white balloons; East End, Portland. seaportland.org. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Terry Hilt, Susan Shatter and Andrea Sulzer, Aucocisco Galleries, Portland. 775-2222. Opening Reception, 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. Through Aug. 6. 

CONTINUING

“People and Community, War and Peace,” 50-year retrospective of the photographs of Olive Pierce, Lincoln Street Center for Arts, Rockland. 691-0322. Through today.

“Gold, God, Guns and Girls,” gouache drawings by Kenny Cole, Monkitree, Gardiner. 512-4679. Through Saturday.

“Shift: Vivien Russe and Mary Hart,” paintings of nudes and pillows, Aucocisco Galleries, Portland. 775-2222. Through Saturday.

“Steve Mumford: Embedded,” illustrations from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport. 236-2875. Through Sunday.

“Illustrated Passages: Artworks Illustrating Paragraphs and Poems,” work by Maine artists, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. 882-7511. Through Sunday.

Barbara Ernst Prey: “The Print Show,” signature pieces from more than 30 years of painting, Blue Water Fine Arts, Port Clyde. 372-8087. Through Sunday.

Elizabeth McMillen and Duane Paluska: “Counterpoint,” paintings and wooden sculptures, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport. Through Sunday.

“Robert Hamilton: The Last Paintings,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport. 236-2875. Through Sunday.

“Logging in the Maine Woods Today,” photographs by Tonee Harbert, University of Southern Maine (Glickman Family Library), Portland. Through July 15.

Richard Hasenfus, “Unforgettable” summer art series, COCO VIVO Fine Art and Design, Boothbay Harbor. cocovivofineart.com. Through July 15.

“Gallery 5 Photography Competition and Exhibit,” L/A Arts Gallery 5, Lewiston. 782-7228. Through July 16.

Pastel Painters of Maine, 12th international juried exhibition, Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk. 854-2378. Through July 16.

Alan Bray, Michael Reece, Jan Rosenbaum and Kristin Malin, painting and photography, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland. 594-5935. Through July 16.

“Botanical Drawings,” Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth. 781-2620. Through July 18.

“New Works,” by Craig Mooney and Henry Isaacs, Gallery on Chase Hill, Kennebunkport. maine-art.com. Through July 21.

“It’s Not So Black and White,” blown glass and pottery, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. 712-1097. Through July 26.

“Between Earth and Sky,” sculpture exhibition and sale, Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal. 688-4468. Through July 27.

Sculpture Exhibition and Sale, features sculpture by 35 artists from New England, June LaCombe Sculpture, Pownal. 688-4468. Through July 27.

America Martin, paintings, Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland. 594-7745. Through July 27.

“Artists of Hallowell,” artwork of local artists complemented by music, readings and more; Harlow Gallery, Hallowell. harlowgallery.org. Through July 29.

Charles Martin, cartoonist, artist and illustrator who created more than 200 covers for The New Yorker magazine, Greenhut Galleries, Portland. Through July 30.

“Drawing the Line #2” by Noriko Sakanishi, “Drawing the Line #3” by Ken Greenleaf and “Drawing the Line #4” by various artists, June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, Portland. 772-1961. Through July 30.

Francine Schrock and Patrick Plourde, new paintings and sculptures, Harmon’s & Barton’s Gallery, Portland. 774-5946. Through July 30.

Lin Lisberger, carved wood sculpture exhibit, 3 Fish Gallery, Portland. Through July 30.

Steven Lanzalotta, “A New Light,” Heron Point Gallery, Portland. 809-0051. Through July 30.

Maine Sculptors 2011, works by 15 sculptors, Portland Public Library (Lewis Gallery), Portland. 871-1700. Through July 30.

“Aviary: A Winged Celebration,” work by local artists, students and bird lovers; Frontier Cafe, Cinema & Gallery, Brunswick. 725-8820. Through July 31.

“Transitions,” new works by Sonia Anne-Cooke Broen, St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland. 347-3075. Through July 31.

“Garden Girls,” mixed-media garden sculptures by Natasha Kempers-Cullen, Markings Gallery, Bath. 443-1499. Through July 31.

Guest Artist Pamela duLong Williams, York Art Association, York Harbor. 363-4049. Through July 31.

Susan Metzger and Simon van der Ven, Aarhus Gallery, Belfast. 338-0001. Through July 31.

“Variations IV: An Exhibition of Art, Objects and Perspectives,” highlighting seven artists, seven objects and multiple perspectives, Circling the Square Fine Art Press Gallery, Gardiner. 582-2108. Through July 31.

“American Realism: Works on Paper, 1862-2011,” by masters of American Realism, Haynes Galleries, Thomaston. 354-0605. Through Aug. 4.

“Tell Me a Story: Folktales and World Cultures,” children’s book illustrations by 13 Maine artists, University of Southern Maine (Atrium Art Gallery), Lewiston. 753-6500. Through Aug. 12.

“Transformations,” more than 20 works by men in long-term recovery at the Milestone Foundation of Old Orchard Beach, Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth. 847-3001. Through Aug. 27.

“Three Views,” paintings by Elise Ansel, Kate Emlen and Tom Glover, Thos. Moser Showroom, Freeport. 865-4519. Through Aug. 28.