PORTLAND — Snowlion Repertory Company’s inaugural production, “ The Christmas Bride,” opens at 8 p.m. Thursday at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd. The cast includes Elizabeth Lardie, a Morse High School graduate and columnist for The Times Record. The production presents a musical version of Charles Dickens’ story “ The Battle of Life,” adapted by […]

ROCKPORT — The Bay Chamber’s free Odeon Holiday Concert, featuring guest cellist Marc Johnson, starts at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Rockport Opera House. Deirdre McClure, in her second year conducting for Bay Chamber, will direct the Odeon junior, youth and adult ensembles. Also on the program is the Odeon Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of […]

PORTLAND — The Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ will present “A Kotzschmar Christmas,” with Portland municipal organist Ray Cornils, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 20 in Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St. Other scheduled performers include the Choral Art Camerata, the Parish Ringers and Aaron Engebreth. Ticket prices range from $29 to $17. Student, senior and group […]

WATERVILLE — The Waterville Opera House offers two special holiday programs, “ The Winter Wonderettes” and “ Christmas Sojourn.” Both shows take place in the venue’s Studio Theater, as renovations of the opera house continue. “The Opera House transforms its dance studio into a hardware store Christmas party in the ‘60s-style musical ‘The Winter Wonderettes,” […]

NEWCASTLE — Local folk musicians team up for traditional Christmas and Yuletide music in a concert called “Hey Ho the Holly” at 3 p.m. Sunday in St. Andrews Church on Glidden Street in Newcastle. “ Many of our cherished holiday traditions originated in Europe and the Celtic lands and were brought to this country by […]

The Times Record reser ves this space to correct errors appearing in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Robert Long at 729-3311. A report on page A1 of Thursday’s edition should have stated that the Bath City Council on Wednesday approved a bond for $308,000 […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV broadcast video Thursday of what it said was the high-tech U.S. drone that Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week. The more than two minutes of footage showed Iranian military officials inspecting what state TV identified as the RQ- 170 Sentinel drone. The cream-colored aircraft appeared intact […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A 1911 photograph of Thomas Edison holding an alkaline battery with his penned declaration about the invention’s importance in transportation has sold for more than $ 31,000, believed to be a record for a signed Edison photo. RR Auction of Amherst, N.H., said the photograph was sold Wednesday night in an […]

BRUSSELS ( AP) — The leaders of the 17 countries that use the euro, plus six others, have tentatively agreed to a new treaty that enforces stricter budget rules seen as crucial to solving Europe’s debt crisis and holding the currency-bloc together. The effort by Germany and France to persuade all 27 European Union countries […]