Waterville Creates

To enhance quality of life and build community through the performing arts. The 810-seat waterville opera house presents live theatre, dance, concerts, and educational programming for audiences of all ages. In 2023, the waterville opera house (woh) produced four plays, including drinking habits, head over heels, miss holmes returns, and the spongebob musical. In addition, woh hosted 4 school shows, 3 weeks of theatre camp, and 35 live performances, including tig notaro, chistopher cross, preservation hall jazz band, cirque kalabante, and elvis costello.

To educate, entertain, and build community through film. Celebrating the art of cinema and inspiring a love for film, the maine film center (mfc) offers daily screenings of first-run art house films, hosts numerous special screenings and community events, including free screenings for local schools, and presents the 10-day maine international film festival (miff) in july. In 2024, mfc screen 388 individual films across 3,500 showtimes.