• CLASSICAL MUSIC

TODAY

Noonday Concert featuring Elliott Schwartz and Company, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. Free. 775-3356. 12:15 p.m.

SATURDAY

Longfellow Chorus and Orchestra, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. $10 to $20. www.longfellowchorus.com. 4:30 p.m. (with guest Tyler Putnam) and 8 p.m. Saturday; 1:30 and 3 p.m. Sunday (with guest Tyler Putnam).

“Literary Delights” with the Colby Faculty Woodwinds, Colby College (Lorimer Chapel), Waterville. Free. www.colby.edu. 7:30 p.m.

“Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride,” live in HD from the Met Opera Series, Fryeburg Academy (Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center), Fryeburg. $18 students; $26 adults; $23 seniors. 935-9232. 1 p.m.

SUNDAY

Sacred Harp Singing, participatory event, featuring hymns, fuging tunes, anthems and other songs in a style rooted in Colonial New England. Potluck dinner follows. Private residence. Free. 563-6083. 2 to 5 p.m.

Paul Winter Consort with the Midcoast Community Chorus and a multimedia exploration by artist Eric Hopkins, Camden Hills Regional High School (Strom Auditorium), Rockport. $25 to $45; $8 ages 18 and younger. www.baychamberconcerts.org. 4 p.m.

MONDAY

Decompression Chamber Music Series, small classical ensembles, One Longfellow Square, Portland. $12 at door; $10 in advance. 761-1757. Mendelssohn, 6 p.m.

TUESDAY

Kinderkonzert, with members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, for children ages 3 to 7; Margaret Chase Smith School, Sanford. $4. 773-6128. “The Nature of Woodwinds,” 9 and 10 a.m.

Kinderkonzert, with members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, for children ages 3 to 7; Carl Lamb School, Springvale. $4. “The Nature of Woodwinds,” 1 p.m.

• DANCE

The Evolution of Black Dance, sponsored by the Bowdoin College African American Society, Bowdoin College (Kresge Auditorium), Brunswick. Free. 725-3375. 8 p.m. today.

• THEATER

“Moonlight and Magnolias,” Good Theater comedy about the craziness that happened behind the scenes during the filming of “Gone with the Wind,” St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland. www.goodtheater.com. $18 to $30. 7:30 p.m. today to Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday.

“Venus,” based on the true story of freak show attraction Saartjie Baartman, for mature audiences; Bowdoin College (Wish Theater), Brunswick. Free; tickets required. 725-3375. 8 p.m. today and Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday.

“Dirty Blonde,” Penobscot Theater production and Maine premiere of musical based on the life of Mae West, Bangor Opera House. $20 to $35. 942-3333. 7 p.m. today; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday.

“Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist and Other Conversations of Color,” concert, play and art celebrating the Black Freedom Movement, Lucid Stage, Portland. $10 to $20, sliding scale. 899-3993. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

“Animal Farm,” student production of classic George Orwell novel, College of the Atlantic (Gates Center), Bar Harbor. www.coa.edu. 7:30 p.m. Friday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday.

“James and the Giant Peach,” children’s play, Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, Portland. $7 to $8; reservations suggested. 828-1234, Ext. 231. 4 p.m. Friday; 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday; 4 p.m. Sunday. Through March 6.

“Rent,” rock opera about aspiring young artists, Lyric Music Theater, South Portland. $19.99. lyricmusictheater.org. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Through March 5.

“Key for Two,” comedy about a divorcee trying to solve her financial problems, presented by Gaslight Theater; Hallowell City Hall. 626-3698. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Through March 5.

“Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love,” adult comedy, Old Port Playhouse, Portland. $15. 773-0333. 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday.

“Jesus Christ Superstar,” Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Hebron Academy (Lepage Center for the Arts). Free. 966-2100. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

“HUAC vs. Hollywood: A Play,” drama based on McCarthy-era hearings of the 1950s, Lucid Stage, Portland. $10. 899-3993. 8 p.m. Saturday.

“A Night of Romantic Songs with Kelly Caufield,” dinner performance, Anthony’s Dinner Theater, Portland. $39.95, includes meal. 7 p.m. Saturday.

“In Edie’s Honor,” Center Stage Players tribute to playwright and actor Edie Hazard, Theater Project, Brunswick. $5. theaterproject.com. 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

“Checkered Floors,” Cheryl Hamilton presents a one-woman dramatic account of Somali immigration, Nasson Community Center, Springvale. $15. 324-5657. nassoncc.org. 7 p.m. Saturday.

“Magic of Ireland,” Irish music and dance, University of Maine (Collins Center for the Arts), Orono. $42. www.collinscenterforthearts.co. 3 p.m. Sunday.

“The Center of Gravity,” comedy about what the Wright brothers would have tried if they hadn’t invented the first manned flying machine, Portland Stage Company. $14.50 to $37. 774-0465. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Through March 20.

“Blue/Orange,” an incendiary tale of race, mental illness and a Darwinian power struggle presented by the Dramatic Repertory Company; Portland Stage Company (Studio Theater), Portland. $10 to $15. (800) 838-3006. 8 p.m. Wednesday. Through March 12.

• MUSEUMS

OPENINGS/RECEPTIONS

Youth Art Month exhibit, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148. Opens Tuesday. Through April 3.

CONTINUING

“Unconventional Portraits: Photographs by Charles E. Moody,” Saco Museum. 283-3861. Through Saturday.

“Recent Acquisitions,” multimedia, Saco Museum. 283-3861. Through Saturday.

“A Most Inconvenient Storm,” original photographs from the ice storm of January 1886, Maine Historical Society, Portland. www.mainehistory.org. Through Tuesday.

“Weston: Leaves of Grass,” Edward Weston’s black-and-white photographs based on Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; www.portlandmuseum.org. Through March 13.

“Characters,” ink drawings by faculty member Scott Reed, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. www.colby.edu. Through March 20.

“Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008,” artist retrospective, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148. Through March 20.

“Bound to Art: Illustrated Books from the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library,” Bates College (Museum of Art), Lewiston. 786-6158. Through March 25.

“Dialogue: A Video Series,” artists’ videos rotate throughout the exhibit’s run, Bates College (Museum of Art), Lewiston. 786-6158. Through March 25.

“Selections from the Collection of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art,” modern and contemporary art, Bates College (Museum of Art), Lewiston. 786-6158. Through March 25.

Winter exhibits: “Fear and Play,” paintings by Jonathan Lux; “The Gesture Contained,” sculpture by Joshua Enck; and “New York, New York,” photographs from the museum’s collection; University of Maine (Museum of Art), Bangor. 561-3350. Through March 26.

“Strangers,” portraits by Natalia Martinez of contemporary South Africa, Museum of African Culture, Portland. 871-7188. Through March 30.

“The Wreck of the Nottingham Galley,” exhibit of items related to or recovered from the Nottingham Galley, Maine State Museum, Augusta. www.mainestatemuseum.org. Through March 31.

“Aunt Lu: The Story of Princess Watahwaso,” photographs and objects, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor. www.abbemuseum.org. Through April 4.

“Andrew Wyeth: Winter Exhibition,” paintings, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. www.farnsworthmuseum.org. Through April 3.

“Mind the Hand: Drawings from the Farnsworth,” Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. www.farnsworthmuseum.org. Through April 3.

“Waldo County Through Eastern’s Eye,” black-and-white historic photographs from the Penobscot Marine Museum’s Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. collection, University of Maine (Hutchinson Center), Belfast. 548-2529. Through April 30.

“The Lay of the Land,” work from the museum’s permanent collection, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148. Through May 8.

“Displaced Persons,” black-and-white photographs of World War II refugees by Clemens Kalischer, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. www.colby.edu. Through June 12.

“Joan Whitney Payne Collection,” works on loan from the Portland Museum of Art with pieces from the permanent collection, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. www.colby.edu. Through June 12.

“James Fitzgerald and The Elizabeth Howard,” paintings by Fitzgerald of the schooner Elizabeth Howard and its crew, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. www.farnsworthmuseum.org. Through June 26.

“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.

“Learning is an Ornament: The History of Kennebunk’s Schools,” replica installations, historic images and more, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk. www.brickstoremuseum.org. Through Sept. 6.

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

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

“Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. Through Dec. 6.

• ART GALLERIES

OPENINGS/RECEPTIONS

Art Guild of Freeport Show, Freeport Community Library. www.freeportlibrary.com. Twenty local artists show and sell work. See website for library hours. Through Feb. 28.

Art Walk, downtown Biddeford. Free. www.biddefordartwalk.com. 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.

“Higher Forms of Art,” work by local high school students, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell. www.harlowgallery.org. Opens Wednesday. Through March 12.

CONTINUING

“Bringing It Home,” Berri Kramer’s visual journal of villages in Guatemala, Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk. www.heartwoodcollegeofart.org. Through today.

“Diagonal Knitting: A Different Slant,” sculptural work and clothing by Katharine Cobey, Maine Fiberarts, Topsham. 721-0678. Through Friday.

“Where Art and Academics Intersect,” work from students at Merriconeag Waldorf School, 317 Main St., Yarmouth. 846-6264. Through Friday.

“Quartet,” work by Arunas Bukauskas, Barbara Goodbody, Melonie Bennett and Susan Bennett, Addison Woolley Gallery, Portland. www.addisonwoolley.com. Through Saturday.

Juried Photography Show, Chocolate Church Arts Center (Gallery), Bath. www.chocolatechurcharts.org. Through Saturday.

Spindleworks, work by adults with disabilities, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell. www.harlowgallery.org. Through Saturday.

“White,” artists explore the color white, Aarhus Gallery, Belfast. 338-0001. Through Sunday.

“Karen Gelardi: In the Outside,” multi-media installation, Gallery 37-A, Portland. www.thirtysevena.com. Through Sunday.

“Jack and ME,” oil and watercolor paintings by Jim Lagasse, Bangor Public Library. Through Monday.

“CONCEPT: an Architectural IDEA,” University of Maine (Charles Danforth Gallery), Augusta. www.uma.edu/danforthgallery.html. Through Monday.

“Me and the Presidents,” oil portraits by Keith Christy, University of New England (Campus Center), Biddeford. Through Monday.

“Logging in the Maine Woods Today,” photographs by Tonee Harbert and Madeleine de Sinety and paintings by Alden Grant, Fryeburg Academy (Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries of Art), Fryeburg. www.fryeburgacademy.org. Through March 4.

“44.4 Degrees North,” large map installation by cartographer Margot Carpenter, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast. Through March 11.

“Nothing Major,” student-run exhibition featuring work by undergraduates who have not yet declared a major, Maine College of Art, Portland. www.meca.edu. Through March 11.

“Fauna,” work by Angel Braestrup and Margaret Ryan, and “Newfoundland in Paint and Print,” work by Colin Barclay and Robert Aller; Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth. elizabethmossgalleries.com. Through March 12.

“Corporeal,” works by Aaron T. Stephan and Katherine Bradford, Aucocisco Galleries, Portland. www.aucocisco.com. Through March 12.

“Color, Line, and Form: The Art of Abstraction,” L/A Arts Gallery 5, Lewiston. 782-7228. Through March 12.

“Storytellers,” Greta Bank, Patrick Corrigan, Carl Haase, Adriane Herman, Charlie Hewitt, Lisa Pixley, Alex Rheault and David Wolfe use their skills to create art that tell stories; University of Southern Maine (Kate Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts), Portland. Through March 12.

“Maine’s Soul Survivors,” photographic portraits by Jack Montgomery, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland. 329-9854. Through March 14.

“HOLLER!” STIR Art Collective: Works by Spindleworks, Creative Trails and Yes Art Works, 158 Pickett Street Café, South Portland. Through March 14.

Paula Dougherty, life and figure drawings, University of Maine (Art Gallery), Machias. 255-1279. Through March 18.

“Area Artists 2011,” group show with paintings, prints, drawings, photographs and works in clay, glass, fiber and mixed media; University of Southern Maine (Atrium Art Gallery), Lewiston. www.usm.maine.edu/lac/art. Through March 19.

“Maine Agriculture: Views from the Past,” photographs from 75 to 100 years ago of Maine’s agricultural industry, Maine Farmland Trust Gallery, Belfast. www.mainefarmlandtrust.org. Through March 21.

“Burn the Lot,” print show by Cannonball Press, Space Gallery, Portland. www.space538.org. Through March 26.

“A Conference of Birds II,” work by Scott Kelley, Jeff Barrett, Andreas von Huene and others, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. www.gleasonfineart.com. Through March 26.

“Bio-Geo Luminescence,” drawings by Josh Dallaire, Daunis Fine Jewelry, Portland. 773-6011. Through March 31.

“Pop-ups! They’re not JUST for kids!,” pop-up books from the 1,800-volume Goralnick Collection, Bowdoin College (Hawthorne Longfellow Library), Brunswick. www.bowdoin.edu. Through April 1.

“The Jar Project,” installation of 60 art-filled jars made by 60 artists with connections to Maine, Whitney Art Works, Portland. www.jarproject.net. Limited dates through April 2.

“The Feathered Hand,” installations, drawings and prints by Alison Derby Hildreth, University of New England (Art Gallery), Portland. Through April 3.

“Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning,” work by Gwenael Belanger, Susan Leopold, Daniel Rozin and Alyson Shotz, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. www.meca.edu. Through April 10.

“Celebrate Artists from Freeport,” group show, Thos. Moser Showroom, Freeport. www.thosmoser.com. Through May 14.