Arts Center Theatre on Marco Island is doing something different this holiday season. Instead of staging a full-scale production of a Christmas show, it's reading selections from David Sedaris’ “Holidays on Ice.”

“We've picked four essays,” Executive Director Hyla Crane explained. “Not necessarily the ones that people would think of or would choose. We're not doing ‘Santa Land Diaries.’ We're gonna be doing ‘Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol,’ ‘Based Upon a True Story,’ ‘Christmas Means Giving’ and my favorite, ‘The Cow and the Turkey.’ It's not traditional in any way.”

Sedaris is known for snarky storytelling.

“David Sedaris' humor, while very funny, is not for family audiences,” Crane observed. “It's a little dark at times, but still very, very funny. We negotiated with his liter

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