Catherine Karakas and Mady Larson – The Spine Stealers – perform Friday at Jade Fountain and Saturday morning at The Back Alley.

Great Nordic Shakespeare Festival
Jan. 10-Feb. 2
Minnesota North College - Vermilion Campus, Ely
Month-long event featuring two productions, Romeo and Juliet and the one-man show Every Brilliant Thing, plus immersive workshops and new play staged readings that promise to captivate and inspire audiences of all ages.

Understudy Theater: A New Scarf for Warren
Fri. & Sat., Jan. 10 & 11, 7 pm
StageNorth Theater, Washburn
First of a three-part absurdist soap opera with the next two episodes in February and March. Will there be intrigue? Just the right amount and then too much. Love and romance? All wrong in ways so cute it has to be love. What’s it about? 

The Spine Stealers
Friday, Jan. 10, 7 pm
Jade Fountain
Saturday, Jan. 11, 10 am
The Back Alley
Two-gal duo from Madison makes spooky folk influenced by Northwood pines, 24/7 truck stop diners, heartbreak and dark lakes, at the Jade Friday with Ross Thorn, Catherine Karakas and Mady Larson, and Saturday as part of The Back Alley’s morning Cozy Concert series.

Wearing Joy Fashion Show
Saturday, Jan. 11, 7 pm
Old Post Office, Superior
Second annual fashion show, family friendly and inclusive, to raise money for Hope Haven Peer Respite, featuring local designers who have upcycled and created their own designs. Silent auction offers wearable items and other artistic donations.

Gary Rue & Randy Sabien
Saturday, Jan. 11, 7 pm
Arrowhead Center for the Arts, Grand Marais
Ad lib, rapid-fire duologues on inspiration, oblique social commentary and comic highs and lows, plumbed from the musical depths of piano, guitar, violin, mandolin and voices that soar, growl and bubble.

A Collectible Sensation
Sat.-Mon., Jan. 11-13
Studio 4, The Depot
Free presentation of a new musical work in progress. Long-dead sisters Etta and Claribel Cone materialize at the Baltimore Museum of Modern Art. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (equally dead) also pop up, uninvited. Their mission: to settle once and for all how the relationship between Etta and Gertrude fell apart.

What the Constitution Means to Me
Jan. 16-25
Zeitgeist Arts
At age 15 Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions. In this hilarious and hopeful new play, she resurrects her teen self in order to trace the relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.