Topsham Fair

Wednesday to Sunday. Topsham Fairgrounds, Route 196 Coastal Connector, $20 (includes rides), $5 seniors on Sunday. topshamfair.org.

The Topsham Fair celebrates its 171st anniversary, with all the elements that a classic Maine agricultural fair should have. Hit the midway for the rides, or cheer during events like harness racing, the frying pan contest and horse pulling.  There’s also a wide range of food-themed happenings, including contests for bread pudding, whoopie pie, sweet bread and pie. You’ll also learn a few things at demonstrations on goat milking, beekeeping and woodcarving.

Jerry Seinfeld

7 p.m. Thursday. Maine Savings Amphitheater, 1 Railroad St., Bangor, $67.50-$237.95. waterfrontconcerts.com.

Comic, actor and writer Jerry Seinfeld has won multiple awards over his long career. Known best for the NBC show “Seinfeld,” he most recently starred in, and co-wrote, the Netflix comedy “Unfrosted.” His stand-up appearance in Bangor should be packed with his hilarious brand of observational humor. Allow plenty of time to get there, park, eat and yadda yadda yadda.

‘I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers’

7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Good Theater at Stevens Square, 631 Stevens Ave., Portland, $35, $10 students and 30 and under. goodtheater.com.

Good Theater presents the Maine premiere of a one-woman show by Tony Award-winning playwright John Logan. “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers” stars Lynne McGhee and is directed by Grace Bauer.

Set in 1981, the play is a behind-the-scenes foray into legendary agent Sue Mengers’ wild life. Mengers repped bigtime artists like Barbra Streisand, Cher and Faye Dunaway. During the play, Mengers awaits a key call while looking back on how she went from fleeing Nazi Germany as a young child to becoming a force to be reckoned with what was then an often male-dominated entertainment industry.

Circus Smirkus: Game On

1 and 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Cumberland Fairgrounds, 197 Blanchard Road, $25-$40. porttix.com.

With youth performers from around the globe, Circus Smirkus fuses traditional circus with modern imagination. The current tour, called “Game On,” features board games brought to life in a spectacular, wildly creative way. Among the acts will be acrobats leaping over giant checkerboards, jugglers racing around candy-colored terrain and clowns trying to steer clear of life-size mousetraps.

‘Fallen’ and New Works

7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Hill Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland, $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $10 in advance, $15 at the door for kids under 12. thehillarts.me.

Vivid Motion Dance presents its summer show that features two unique elements. The first part is a series of stand-alone pieces from the imagination of longtime and emerging Vivid choreographers. These new works include ballet, lyrical, jazz and comical music theater, and you’ll hear music by Lizzie McAlpine, The Oh Hellos and Saint Mesa among other artists. Act two is a performance of “Fallen,” an original, contemporary ballet directed and choreographed by Wendy E. Getchell. “Fallen” traces the journey of archangel Daniel after he falls in love with a human named Mandy. Its soundtrack includes tracks from Kate Bush and Philip Glass. The Thursday performance is pay-what-you-wish.

CatVideo Fest 2025

2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday, 7 p.m. Aug. 13-14. Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St., Damariscotta, $10, $7 youth. lincolntheater.org. Noon, 2 and 4 p.m. Thursday, 6 p.m. Friday. Noon and 2 p.m. August 13-14. Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, $10, $7 students. portlandmuseum.org.

You don’t have to love, or even like, cats to attend CatVideo Fest 2025. The 70-minute reel is a glorious compilation of submissions, animations, music videos and viral footage of cats living their best and often often hilarious lives. You can feel pawsitively good about that fact that 10% of Lincoln Theater’s tickets from the screenings will be donated to Midcoast Humane in Edgecomb, which serves 39 cities and towns around Maine’s Midcoast. Note: If you can’t make it to the Lincoln Theater or Portland Musem of Art, CatVideo Fest 2025 also takes place at The Hill Arts in Portland on Aug. 22. Head to thehillarts.me for details.