Sci-fi Play and Free First-time Homebuyer Tips on Weekend Calendar

It's officially the weekend in Danvers. Not sure how you're going to spend it?

Here's a look at some of the events going on in and around town. Check our calendar for more, and if there's something we missed, be sure to add it and let us know in the comments.

Home Buyers Expo

• Where: NMTW Community Credit Union, Danvers Branch
• When: Saturday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
• What: Do you have questions about the home financing process? Get all the answers at NMTW Community Credit Union’s Home Buyer Expos. Stop by for refreshments and receive a $500 coupon towards closing costs on an NMTW home loan, just for attending.

Von Trapp Granddaughter to Visit Hamilton for 'Sound of Music' Show

• Where: Community House of Hamilton-Wenham
• When: Saturday, March 2 for the 3 p.m. show
• What: Kristina von Trapp, granddaughter of Maria and the Captain von Trapp, will be at the 3 p.m. performance of the "Sound of Music." She will hold a question and answer session with the audience after the show. The "Sound of Music" was inspired by the real-life story of the von Trapp family, who now live in Vermont.

“Bugsy Malone Jr.”

• Where: Holten-Richmond Middle School, Danvers
• When: Performances take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 1, and at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 2. 
• What: Tap-dancing flappers and gangsters from the Roaring Twenties take the stage as the Holten Richmond Theater Organization (HRTO) presents the musical “Bugsy Malone Jr.” at the Holten-Richmond middle School. 

Forbidden Planet

• Where: Pingree School, South Hamilton
• When: Now the show comes to the Pingree stage on Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March, 3, at 2:30 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 per ticket. Tickets can be reserved online.
• What: Eons ago, before Star Trek and Star Wars, there was Forbidden Planet, an ingeniously high-tech science-fiction movie that drew its basic story line from The Tempest. Return to the Forbidden Planet, Bob Carlton's musical version, which incorporates rock and rhythm-and-blues of the 1950s and 1960s, is a case of Shakespeare rattled and rolled, according to the New York Times review when the show debuted on Broadway. 

Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild's One Act Play Festival

• Where: Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School
• When: The festival will take place March 2 running from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.. General admission to the festival is $10 and tickets are available at the door
• What: Students from the Regional plus several other North Shore school,s including Clark School, North Reading High School, Rockport High School and Wakefield High School.