This North Coast Weekend

The HSU production of Spinning Into Butter ends its two-weekend run in Gist Hall Theatre Thursday (March 6) through Saturday at 7:30, with the final performance at 2 p.m. on Sunday.  It's been a long time since an HSU show has been reviewed, but there are two for this one: Beti Trauth in the Mad River Union  (a rave) and Kate Haley on the A&E blog of the North Coast Journal online.  After the Thursday performance there will be an audience discussion led by Ramona Bell from the HSU Department of Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies.  826-3928, HSU Stage & Screen.

Also concluding its run this weekend is Making God Laugh at Redwood Curtain.  www.RedwoodCurtain.com.

Eureka High opens Little Shop of Horrors at 7:30 Thursday-Saturday.  441-1735, www.ehplayers.com.

The Redbud Theater in Willow Creek opens the Norm Foster comedy The Love List with a dinner show on Saturday March 8 (dinner at 6:45, play at 7:30.)  Performances continue the next two weekends, March 14-15, 21-22 at 7:30 p., with a Sunday matinee on March 16 at 2:30 p.m.  Tickets are available from Dream Quest.  The Love List, directed by Rick Stewart, features John Pinto, Richard Junkin and Libby Pinto.

This North Coast Weekend

At the Arcata Playhouse, Bay Area actor and Celtic harpist Patrick Ball performs his musical tribute to Irish legend Turlough O’Carolan in O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music for one night only on Friday November 4 at 7 p.m.

Opening on Friday (November 4) at the College of the Redwoods Forum Theater is the Humboldt Light Opera Company KidCo production of Alice in Wonderland, Jr. Directed by Cindy Cress, with musical direction by Amy Chalfant, this family musical with familiar characters and scenes from the Lewis Carroll Alice books features children from ages 5 to 17, including Ciara Cheli-Colando, Camille Asbill, Kyra Dart, Rachel Post, Isabella Loch, Lily Buschmann, Kayla Kossow, Gabby Fell, Leah Selcer, James Zwiker, Kalex Sweetfire-Spoon, Allie Sanchez, Estelle Fuller, Anna Vodopals, Erin Casper and Kaylie Doebel. It runs Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 4-5 and 11-12 at 7 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on November 6.

At the Redbud Theatre in Willow Creek, the comedy Academia Nuts by Gregg Kreutz is performed November 4, 5, 11 and 12 at 8 p.m. The cast includes Brian Bottemiller (who also directs,) Roland Grubb, Libby Pinto and Vicki Kurtz.

Continuing at Redwood Curtain, the musical The Last Five Years.  See post below.

This North Coast Weekend

Blue Lake: The Opera concludes this weekend at Dell'Arte, Thursday through Saturday at 8. I review it below and in the Journal; excerpts of an interview with playwright Lauren Wilson are also in an earlier post below.

Dell'Arte's adults-only Red Light at Blue Lake has its one night engorgement on Friday night (July 2) after the Opera.

A one-weekend North Coast Rep production of David Mamet’s drama Oleanna with Alexandra Gellner and Gary Sommers, directed by Linnea Conway, on July 2 and 3 at 8 p.m.

Redbud Theatre presents The Money Ball, a homegrown topical comedy by Brian Bottemiller, directed by Bruce Marrs. The play, set on a fictional golf course, is presented at Willow Creek Golf and Country Club at 8:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays of three consecutive weekends beginning July 2.