Get Ready For A Festive Weekend!

1. It's a wonderful life! Get into the spirit of the season with a new twist on a holiday classic at the Kelley Library in Salem tonight! Pontine Theatre’s Artistic Directors, M. Marguerite Mathews and Greg Gathers, perform a two-person, condensed version of It’s A Wonderful Life. The script is drawn from a 1940’s radio play based on the popular movie. Pontine Theatre adds a lively production style featuring colorful puppets and masks, for a performance sure to delight every member of the audience. 

2. Add some color! Looking for something different to do Friday night? Need a gift to bring for Yankee Swap? The Studio in Bedford is now offering 2-hour painting sessions for grown-ups on the first and third Fridays of the month and in December we will be painting wine glasses! They will provide you with the glassware, brushes, and paint while our instructor guides you through different designs, color mixing and brush techniques to create some unique gifts anybody would appreciate!

3. Celebrate! Head over to the Red River Theatres this Saturday for Las Posadas, an original operetta being toured this season by Alchemists' Workshop - a non-profit professional theatre company that specializes in commissioning new works of musical theatre using New Hampshire artists.  Composer and lyricist Will Ogmundson and script-writer Tom Dunn have teamed up to adapt author Tomie dePaola's classic holiday tale "The Night of Las Posadas" in this exciting new work.  The talents of vocalists Fred Sprague, Cindy Johnson, Linny Kenny, and Scott Sweatt will be showcased in this exceptional performance!

4. A little holiday competition. Frederick’s Pastries employees have completed the process of building their annual Gingerbread House Village Display and are looking for your votes. The public is invited to visit the store and vote for their favorite house, with this year’s theme is "A Kid’s Christmas.” The employees placing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place are given prizes, in addition, Frederick’s Pastries draws names from the voting ballots and award 12 lucky patrons a sweet prize from the bakery. Visit them at 109 Route 101A in Amherst. Displays are also set up in Frederick’s Pastries Bedford, NH and N. Andover, MA locations but voting only happens in Amherst, NH.

5. Goal! The Manchester Monarchs will be playing the Connecticut Whale at 7 p.m. on Friday night in the Verizon Wireless Arena. Doors open at 6 p.m.