Spotlight: 'The Magic Dreidel'

Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company revisits Jenna Zark's short play about a youngster who encounters Hanukkah through a magical toy. Naveh Shavit-Lonstein plays the lad who loses his dreidel down a well, only to have it replaced by tricky new spinning tops provided by a goblin, portrayed by Bruce Abas. (7 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun.; Hillcrest Center, 1978 Ford Pkwy., St. Paul; $14-$16, 651-647-4315.) GRAYDON ROYCE

HIT IT!
Jeff Bartlett, impresario at the Southern Theater, thought last year's sold-out show, "Flying Feet --The Percussion Project," really had legs. So this year he's built a whole percussive dance and music festival around it. The fest opens with Joe Chvala, Karla Grotting and Peter O'Gorman's splendid show of artistic revelry, silly slap dancing, fantastic tapping and drumming on a variety of body parts and percussion instruments. The fest rocks out with Savage Aural Hotbed's "Wreckquiem and Industryule" (the title says it all). The folky Wild Goose Chase Cloggers collaborate with the DeLaSouljah Steppers from DeLaSalle High School, the Xi chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Hop Team from the University of Minnesota, and local hip-hop artist RDM. And Mary Ellen Child's exquisitely choreographed percussion group Crash performs its first local concert since 2000. Note the new work featuring clangorous bells made from oxygen, scuba and propane tanks. (Various times, Dec. 6-16, Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Av. S., Mpls. $18, $20 for sampler on Dec. 12. 612-340-1725; southerntheater.org.) CAMILLE LEFEVRE