This North Coast Weekend

 Dell’Arte International School MFA students present Finding The Way Home: An Evening of Melodrama, a set of overlapping stories in which good triumphs over evil (eventually), Thursday through Saturday (March 14-16) at 8 p.m. in the Carlo Theatre. 707-668-5663.

 Arcata Playhouse inaugurates this year’s Family Fun Series with The Gruffalo, a play with animal characters and music adapted from an award-winning children’s book, presented by the London-based youth theatre group Tall Stories. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., plus a Saturday matinee at 2. 707 822-1575.

 Community members are presenting several performances of A Thousand Kites, a play based on letters from prisoners, family members and correction officers: Friday (March 15) in Gist Hall at 8 p.m., the Native American Forum at HSU on March 29 during the university’s Criminal Justice Dialogue, and finally at Redwood Curtain on April 7 at 2 p.m. All proceeds benefit the Prison University Project and other programs.