This North Coast Weekend

The Dell’Arte International School’s first years present their culminating creation of commedia chaos (starring “lovers, mothers, charlatans, thieves, posers, zanies, braggarts and windbags”) in Commedia: Unleashed! at the Carlo Theatre Thursday through Saturday (Feb. 2-4) at 8 p.m. Pay-what-you-can, reservations encouraged. 707-668-5663, www.dellarte.com.

On Friday and Saturday (Feb. 3, 4), VDAY Humboldt performs Eve Ensler’s Any One of Us: Words From Prison (monologues of women prisoners) as their annual benefit for the North Coast Rape Crisis Team and the Prison University Project, at HSU’s Native American Forum, at 7 p.m. 530-448-9458.

Beginning Wednesday (Feb. 8) for just 5 performances, HSU Theatre presents Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks, about an African woman displayed as a “wild female jungle creature” in 19th century Europe. It’s on stage at Gist Hall Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (Feb. 8-11) and 2 p.m. Sunday. 826-3928. HSUStage