Mark's Mark in Niles on Saturday

Cleveland Plain Dealer and former Beacon Journal television critic Mark Dawidziak will be taking his “A Visit with Mark Twain” road show to Niles' McKinley Memorial Auditorium Saturday at 1 p.m. 

Mark has done this one-man show at a variety of Northeast Ohio locations over the years.

Mark Dawidziak as Mark Twain

He first portrayed Twain during the 1980s in Tennessee and Virginia before he began working for the Beacon Journal.

Mark will perform solo this time, but he has done "Twain by Three" often with his wife, Sara Showman, and Jason Davis, an Akron native who lives in Fairlawn Heights.

Mark and Sara’s Largely Literary Theater Company, founded in 2001, also does shows centered on Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe. Their first performance of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” was given in 2002 in Taylor Memorial Library in Cuyahoga Falls.

Mark has written many non-fiction books, a novel, short stories and several plays, and teaches the Reviewing Film and Television course at Kent State University.

Mark Twain’s birth name was Samuel Clemens. He was an author, river boat pilot and humorist. "Huckleberry Finn" was one of his most famous books.