Theater etc.

This weekend

New Artists Productions singers will present “A Little Bit of Broadway and A Little Bit of Christmas,” at The Station Restaurant in Bandon on Saturday. Vocalists Hope and Zeta Hay, Emily Wampler and Jeneveve Winchell will perform beginning at 6:30 p.m. Free; dinner and dessert available. Information, 347-2517; reservations, 347-9615.

“A Victorian Christmas With John Doan” will kick off Florence’s first-ever Dickens Festival, at 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the Florence Playhouse, 208 Laurel St. A live version of Doan’s public broadcasting television special, which re-enacts what it might have been like to celebrate Christmas a century ago, featuring 20-string harp guitar, classical banjo and ukelin. $12. (541) 997-1675 or 902-9091.

Next week

Oregon Shakespeare Festival will present a special performance by two festival actors at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, at the Sawdust Theatre, 114 N. Adams St., Coquille. 396-2163.

Southwestern Oregon Community College’s Music Department will hold three free concerts at 7 p.m. on each night of Dec. 1-3 at the Hales Center for the Performing Arts. On Monday, the SOCC symphonic choir will present Vivaldi’s “Gloria.” The SOCC brass ensemble will also perform works, including traditional Christmas songs. On Tuesday, the Oregon Coast Lab Band group “Evolution” will perform various jazz arrangements. On Wednesday, the SOCC vocal jazz choir and chamber choir will perform standard jazz works, Christmas songs and traditional Chamber choir works. The SOCC orchestra will also perform Christmas songs and orchestral literature. 888-7422.

The Bay Area Concert Band will present its holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, at the North Bend Presbyterian Church. An array of winter and Christmas music, with small group ensembles including flutes, clarinets, sax quartet, brass quintet and low brass. Free.

Little Ole Opry presents “Country Christmas” at Little Theatre on the Bay in North Bend, Friday, Dec. 5, through Sunday, Dec. 7. Country music variety show with comedy and dance. Shows are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. $12. www.ltob.net or (800) 595-4849.

The Sea Breeze Harmony Chorus presents “Holiday Magic” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, at the Sawdust Theatre in Coquille. The local chorus, part of Sweet Adelines International, will present holiday music in barbershop style. Myrtle Point High School show choir will also perform. $10, $5 for children. 267-3106.

FoxWell Productions’ comedy “Relatively Speaking”  comes to Theatre 101, 1320 Oregon St. in Port Orford, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, and Saturday, Dec. 6. The show will also stop by Gold Beach Books, 29707 Ellensburg Ave., in Gold Beach, at the same times on Friday, Dec. 12, and Saturday Dec. 13. Two befuddled couples wrestle with mistaken identities and silly misunderstandings, in the tradition of farce, set in the 1960s. $10. (541) 332-PLAY, or www.foxwellproductions.net.

Later

The Marshfield Poetry Slam will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 10, in the Marshfield High School Drama Lab. An upfront, dramatic, competitive poetry performance event. Last year’s slam attracted 250 people, with 24 poets competing for a grand prize of $100. Sponsored by MHS English Department. Free for students, friends and family of contestants; refreshments will be served.

Christmas in Coquille, a community celebration, will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, at the Coquille Community Center, 115 Birch St. 396-3414.

Lee Littlefield, on the Wurlitzer Organ, and the Christmas Brass Ensemble, featuring Wilbur Jensen, will perform their annual holiday concert at noon on Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay. Traditional holiday music, novelty tunes and an audience sing-along. Free. 756-6769.

MarLo Dance Studio offers a theatrical production, “’Twas The Night Before Christmas,” Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13-14, at the Sprague Community Theater in Bandon. Show times are 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday. $12. 347-4616 or http://www.marlodance.com.

New Artists Productions will present “The Christmas Toy Shop” Friday through Sunday, Dec. 19-21  at the Sprague Community Theater in Bandon. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. A fantasy in which toys come to life and come to understand their purpose as Christmas gifts for boys and girls. Youth production with student directors Destyni Fuller and Jeneveve Winchell. $8, $5 for students. 347-2517.

“The Nutcracker” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22,  in Marshfield High School’s auditorium. $18 in advance or $20 at the door. Tickets are available only at The Portrait Place in the Pony Village Mall in North Bend.

Art

Ongoing

Artists/Writers Exchange Show closes Sunday at Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center, Bandon.

“Celebrate the Arts” closes Sunday at the Florence Events Center. (541) 997-1994.

The CAM Biennial Exhibit runs through Dec. 6 at Coos Art Museum. 267-3901.

Coming up

“Native American Art Empowers ‘Invisible People’” opens Sunday, Dec. 7, at Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center, Bandon. Show features art by Native Americans serving in Oregon prisons.