Theater Thursdays and Peter Pan at Lincoln Theater

Tue, 05/30/2017 - 12:00pm

Do you do Meatless Monday as often as possible? Is Taco Tuesday a new family tradition? The Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta would like to encourage you to consider a different form of alliterative day-of-the-week nourishment—Theater Thursday.

Beginning on Thursday, June 8, and for six Thursdays in June and July, The Lincoln Theater, in conjunction with National Theatre Live, offers front-row seats to world class London productions of great plays featuring brilliant acting, direction, and stage design.

Take advantage of these glorious, affordable opportunities to enrich your family’s life with great theater. The schedule is as follows: “Obsession” stars Jude Law in a new stage adaptation of the 1943 Visconti film; Saturday, June 10 at 10 a.m., it’s NT Live’s presentation of the beloved childhood classic “Peter Pan,” a wonderfully theatrical riot of magic, acrobatics, music, and make-believe. Peter Pan is a hipster. Captain Hook is a woman. Everyone can fly!

On Thursday, June 22 at 2 and 7 p.m.: See “Salomé.An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. This urgent, hypnotic production turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the young woman we call Salomé at the center of a revolution.

Thursday, June 29th at 2 and 7 p.m., “Amadeus stars Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones) as Salieri, featuring live orchestral accompaniment by the Southbank Sinfonia.

Edward Albee’s greatest play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is slated for Thursday, July 6 at 2 and 7 p.m. Imelda Staunton (the Harry Potter films) has garnered rave reviews for her portrayal of Martha as has Conleth Hill and his portrayal of George.

The venerable duo Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in “No Man’s Land,” the Harold Pinter comic classic on Thursday, July 13 at 2 and 7 p.m.

On July 20 at 2 and 7 p.m. its “Angels in America Part 1 Millennium Approaches,” Tony Kushner’s landmark Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in the midst of the 1980’s AIDS crisis. The following week the play concludes on July 27 at 2 and 7 p.m. “Angels in America: Part II Perestroika” in which New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell, during the Reagan years.

Tickets, available one hour before the show, are $15 adult; $13 LT Members; $5 for youth 18 & under. Or purchase tickets in advance at the theater office, open Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lincoln Theater is located at 2 Theater Street in Damariscotta. For additional information, call 207-563-3424 or visit lcct.org. Come see why all the world’s a stage….