'Fiddler' Delights at NCRT | North Coast Journal

‘Fiddler’ Delights at NCRT

It’s a Lewis Carroll Christmas! Dell’Arte’s holiday show this year is The Hunting of the Snark, an adaptation of the famous Lewis verses. It premieres Friday and Saturday at the Carlo Theatre and moves to various locales for free shows, beginning at the Van Duzer at HSU on Sunday. Schedule and details: dellarte.com.

Ferndale Rep’s holiday show for Humboldt elementary schools is The Party, an adaptation by Vicki Young of the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice in Wonderland, featuring Marilyn McCormick, Renee Grinnell and other Rep stalwarts. It begins December 4. Information on performances at a school near you: 786-5483.

In non-holiday news, the touring Mel Brooks musical, The Producers, is at the Van Duzer Wednesday through Friday, Nov. 28-30, at 8 p.m, via CenterArts: 826-3928, and the production site at producersontour.com.

Beginning on Thursday, Nov. 29, HSU premieresRelative Captivity,a new play by Margaret Thomas Kelso about families of the imprisoned (though there’s a country-singing Norse goddess in the mix, too.) Since I’m making those big intermittent part-time hourly worker bucks publicizing this show — and since Margaret is my beloved partner — I can say no more here, but there’s info at HSUStage.blogspot.com, and while I bow out for a couple of weeks, I’ll be rattling on as usual at stagematters.blogspot.com. Happy Thanksgiving!

To extend the theatrical conversation and expand it beyond the North Coast,I’ve started a Stage Matters blog, at stagematters.blogspot.com. You can alsoe-mail me at stagematters@sbcglobal.net.

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