PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
WELCOME BACK!
Busy times! By year’s end, in addition to having brought 10 different programs to 8 different states (a total of 30 bookings, from Rhode Island to Illinois to Vermont), I’ve edited/proofread four manuscripts, left me by my husband and mentor, Warren Kliewer. Acting Up: Anthology of North American Mennonite Plays (from Gelassenheit Publications) features three of his scripts. Becoming Memories: The Mountain Lake Stories (published by Pandora Press) views that rural community of the 1930s through a child’s eyes, as he untangles the mysteries of adults and is beguiled by the magic of Theatre.
Below you’ll find my performances for the remainder of 2026. I’m working now on ‘27, beginning with March, Women’s History Month, an April tour of Illinois and Iowa, and a May return to (so far) six venues in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I will, again, be back in Cape May, New Jersey, with another string of bookings for Historic Cold Spring Village and Classic American Tales (CAT).
There’s always room for more. If you’d like me to bring a Tale to your neighborhood or organization, contact me at 201-863-6436, 551-482-2403 (cell), or ruedelarue@aol.com .
For more on Warren Kliewer and his work, visit http://www.WarrenKliewer.com .
AND . . . HERE IS THE CALENDAR:
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Tuesday, November 3, 6:00 p.m. Ocean County Library, Toms River Branch Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire
101 Washington Street, Toms River NJ 08753 732-349-6200 https://theoceancountylibrary.org/Branches/TR/tr.htm FREE
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Thursday, December 3, 6:00 p.m. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Seasonal Surprises
1171 Main Street, St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 802-748-8291 https://www.stjathenaeum.org/ FREE
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Friday, December 4, 6:00 p.m. A Christmas Stocking Dover Free Library
22 Holland Road, East Dover, VT 05341 802-348-7488 https://doverfree.org FREE
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Saturday, December 5, 1:00 p.m. The Bedquilt Martha Canfield Memorial Free Library
528 East Arlington Road, Arlington, VT 05250 802-375-6153 https://marthacanfieldlibrary.org/ FREE
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Saturday, December 12, 2:00 p.m. A Christmas Stocking Suffern Free Library
210 Lafayette Ave, Suffern, NY 10901 845-357-1237 www.suffernfreelibrary.org FREE
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Tuesday, December 15, 2:00 p.m. A Christmas Stocking Joseph T. Simpson Public Library Learning & Book Sale Center
45 West Allen Street, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 717-766-0171 https://www.cumberlandcountylibraries.org/SIM FREE
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ABOUT the SHOWS:
🍽️Someone Must Wash the Dishes, by Marie Jenney Howe: Many women fought against getting the vote, but none with more charm, prettier clothes—and less logic—than the fictional speaker in this 1912 satiric monologue.
🌲 Seasonal Surprises: O. Henry’s “A Chaparral Christmas Gift” transports us to Wild West California; Stephen Leacock’s “Hoodoo McFiggin’s Christmas” to a big-city boarding house; and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “The Balsam Fir” to hardscrabble Eastern Massachusetts.
🎁 A Christmas Stocking: Three universal stories of love, loss, joy, and sharing—by (you guessed it) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Elia W. Peattie, and O. Henry + a surprise from Louisa May Alcott.
🧵 The Bedquilt, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher: “She never knew how her great idea came to her . . . so beautifully difficult a pattern could be only for the angels in heaven to quilt.”
