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UMD Theatre presents Kevin Kling's The Ice Fishing Play in the Marshall Performing Arts Center's Dudley Experimental Theatre. Performances run March 7-23. Synopsis: A parade of colorful characters visit Ron, a taciturn fisherman determined to hunker down in his ice house and finally catch an elusive fish while a blizzard rages outside. As the radio cycles through school closures we come to realize how great the stakes really are for Ron.

The Duluth Playhouse presents The Light in the Piazza, a musical based on the book by Craig Lucas, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Performances run March 14-30. Travel with American tourists Margaret Johnson and her daughter Clara as they take in the wonders of Florence, Italy, in the summer of 1953. When a fateful gust of wind whisks Clara’s hat into the hands of Fabrizio, it’s amore at first sight. Heralded as a work of consummate beauty when…

The University of Wisconsin-Superior Theatre Department presents William Shakespeare’s classic, in which a whirlwind of love professions, songs, laughter, drinks and confusion unfolds as mistaken identities and misunderstandings create chaos over who has promised what to whom. Tickets may be purchased at the box office in the Holden Fine Arts Center and online. Reservations can be made at 715-394-8369. Manion Theater is in the Holden Fine and Applied Arts Center at 1805 Catlin Ave. in Superior.

Duluth Playhouse Underground presents Every Brilliant Thing, a play written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe. Performances run April 3-13. Synopsis: A boy’s handwritten list to cheer up his despondent mom becomes a surprisingly funny and poignant ode to humanity. Every Brilliant Thing invites audiences on a transcendent and tender coming-of-age journey that reminds us to pay attention to life’s smallest joys—and to each other. Tickets are available at duluthplayhouse.org.

This day trip to a see the Mary Poppins musical at the Paramount Center for Arts in St. Cloud includes a stop in Mora for a lunch buffet and a visit with the giant Dahla horse. Register at wendyupnorth.com by March 3. A minimum number of people are needed for the trip to be a go. The ride departs from the West Duluth Perkins.

UMD Theatre presents Cabaret, based on the book by Joe Masteroff, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The show is directed by Thomas Jacobsen. Performances run April 18-26. Synopsis: Cabaret is set at a 1930s Berlin nightclub, where the comedic but sinister Emcee ushers us through the story of the romance of American writer Cliff and Kit Kat Klub performer Sally Bowles. Based on the 1998 Broadway revival, the show explores the dark, heady and tumultuous…