Bold, Bawdy & Beautifully Blue Lake
WHAT: 2025 Red Light Cabaret – Directed by Cleo DeOrio
WHEN: July 18 & 19, 2025 8:00pm
WHERE: Carlo Theater, Dell’Arte, 131 H Street, Blue Lake, CA 95525
ENTRANCE: Advance tickets at dellarte.com: Single $25–$30; Table $100
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BLUE LAKE – As part of the 35th Baduwa’t Festival, Dell’Arte International presents the return of a very popular summer show in Blue Lake, the Red Light Cabaret.
This year, Humboldt County’s favorite bawdy cabaret will follow the story of the Copa Cabana, with a Dell’Arte twist, of course. Directed by Cleo DeOrio and hosted by Evan Grande as “Vinny,” it’s sure to be a wild, sexy, and smoky time.
Come join your favorite familiar faces and meet new local performers in this variety show style cabaret. Featuring live music, comedy, drag, burlesque, and circus, we will surely leave you wanting more.
The Red Light Cabaret plays for two nights only on Friday, July 18 and Saturday, July 19 at the Carlo Theater, 131 H Street, Blue Lake. The house and the bar open at 7:15pm for an 8pm curtain. Run time is 85 minutes and includes a 15 minute intermission.
Don’t miss this popular event as it will sell out! Tickets are available at the door, by phone, and online at dellarte.com. Purchase an individual ticket for $30 ($25 if you buy before June 27). A limited number of splash zone tables for two are available for $100, and include table service for cocktails.
Dress as provocatively as you like! Bring single bills to tip performers. Content is appropriate for ages 18+ (partial nudity). For more information, please visit dellarte.com.
ABOUT THE BADUWA’T FESTIVAL
Formerly known as the Mad River Festival, the Baduwa’t Festival is a beloved summer event celebrating the performing arts, music, and connection. In Soulatluk, the Wiyot language, Baduwa’t is the name for what white settlers later called the Mad River. The festival name change was approved by Wiyot leaders in Spring 2021 and Dell’Arte is honored to support the work of the Wiyot Tribe to revitalize the language by using the original name of the river for the festival name. Read about the first 25 years of the Festival in the words of Joan Schirle here.
2025 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:
June 20–22, 27–29, July 5–6 — Love’s the Best Doctor – Dell’Arte Company Mainstage Show
July 12 — Screening: Baduwa’t Documentary
July 18 & 19 — Red Light Cabaret
July 22–26 — Humboldt Folklife Festival
August 1 — Screening: Dell’Arte Prison Arts Program Documentary
August 3— Annie & Mary Day Parade
ABOUT DELL’ARTE INTERNATIONAL
Dell’Arte International is a unique institution in North America. Its training programs attract students from around the world, with more than 1,000 graduates from 41 countries since the formation of the school in 1975. As one of only a handful of professional ensemble-based theaters in the United States, Dell’Arte is internationally recognized for its work to push the boundaries of physical theater, its actor-creator training programs, and for pioneering “theater of place.”
Dell’Arte, Tsawitsguquk Hougawuqul (the work of being comical), is a guest on the unceded ancestral and aboriginal lands of the Wiyot People, which includes the Bear River & Blue Lake Rancheria. Blue Lake is known as Dadiqhoughuk, which means; trail descending & where the trail comes down. We are grateful that the Wiyot People continue to remain in relationship with these lands through ceremony, culture, and stewardship and they are an important part of the history of this area but also in continuing knowledge of this place.