North Shore lights up with theater

The Marblehead Little Arts Theater, a group of professional and amateur thespians of all ages, will present Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music."

The show is set for Nov. 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11, at the Aldridge Center located at Marblehead High School. Tickets cost $10, $15 and $20, with group discounts also available.

For more information or reservations, visit Web site www.m-l-t-.org, or call (781) 631-9697.

Salem State College opens its fall season Oct. 18-20, 26-28, at 8 p.m., with Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," playing on its main stage auditorium, Lafayette Street, Salem. Performances cost $15 for general admission and $10 for senior citizens and non-Salem State College students.

The bard's five-act play has been transposed through time and place, set in Las Vegas, Nev., starring Brianne Beatrice and actor-Peabody firefighter, Michael Peluso.

The college presents "The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," a look at a dysfunctional family, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, in its smaller, more intimate Callan Studio Theatre.

For more information, call the college Arts Hotline at (978) 542-6999.

Gordon College in Wenham is also calling upon the Bard of Avon Street in its production of "Twelfth Night," playing various evenings in November in the Barrington Center for the Arts on campus, 215 Grapevine Road, (Exit 17 off Route 128), Wenham. Drama department students will star in the play directed by Dawn Jenks. For tickets or information call (978) 927-4306, Ext. 4747.

Neverland Theatre, led by Andy Diskes, will perform the Broadway musical "Grease," Nov. 23-27, at the new, spiffy Ipswich Performing Arts Center at Ipswich High School. Diskes is tailoring the play about adolescents during the 1950s and 1960s making it appropriate for all ages to watch and to participate. Tickets cost $15 for reserved seating. Call (978) 468-1191, or visit www.neverlandtheatre.com.

Firehouse Center for the Arts at Market Square in Newburyport opens its fall theater schedule with a one-man show, comedian-pianist Mitchell Zeidwig, evenings, Friday, Sept. 21, through Oct. 7.

Zeidwig, a combination of Victor Borge and Charlie Chaplin, has played Carnegie Hall in New York and will be coming from Las Vegas as opening act for Bill Cosby. Tickets cost $16, $14.

On Thursday, Oct. 11 through Sunday, Oct. 28, Anna Smulowitz Productions presents "Cabaret," starring David Hanbury as the emcee and directed by Paul Goldberg of New York. Tickets range from $16 to $24.

From Nov. 16 through Dec. 2, the Firehouse presents an original, dramatic adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast," which isn't the same version as Disney's, but focuses more on the growing love story between the two. Tickets are $12 and $10.

Throughout the year the Firehouse hosts professional school shows as well. For more information, call (978) 462-7336.

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