'Cyrano' and Spring into the Past open Friday

Friday, Montana Actors' Theatre is starting what may become a new tradition, a Spring into the Past Festival, which will include performances of "Cyrano de Bergerac."

With weather forecasts earlier this week predicting rain this weekend, MAT moved the event from its planned location behind Pershing Hall to the Montana State University-Northern Student Union Building.

The festival is a free Renaissance-type fair with entertainment, games, tarot card readings, face painting and traditional craft demonstrations as well as vendors and the productions of the play.

"It's just fun," MAT assist...