NILES — The peak of the fall theater season often falls in line with the peak of the winter holiday season. The nonprofit Performing Arts Workshops’ (or PAW) cabaret performance will blend the two in one of the final performances of the year in the area.

On Saturday, Dec. 14, 34 children and six adults from the Niles area will perform “Christmas Stories” at the Grand LV, 104 N. Third St., Niles. The doors open at 6 p.m., dinner and dessert will be served at 6:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7 p.m.

The cost for premium seating is $28, regular seating is $20 and seating for children 10 and under is $15. Tickets can be purchased at paw6cabaret.eventbrite.com or at performingartsworkshops.com until 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9.

“Christmas Stories” is a cabaret performance, PAW’s sixth annual. Plays and musicals follow a single storyline and are usually performed in a theater. Cabarets, however, are typically a series of small, separate songs, dances, recitations and dramas usually performed at a more intimate setting.

Isabella Oleson-Schackelford, an 11th-grade student at Brandywine High School, said the songs and stories of this year’s cabaret may be separate from one another, but they all add to an overarching theme of the Christmas holiday season, namely togetherness and compassion.

For instance, ninth-grader Hayden Seggerman, of Brandywine High School, will take the lead role for the cabaret’s first vignette. He will share a variety of folktales and family stories about Christmastime to the audience as a means to show what the holiday season is about.

Oleson-Schackelford’s lead role will be as a woman in “The Gift of the Magi,” which will reveal a key theme of the Christmas season.

Her character, Della, and her husband, James, are without much money as Christmas approaches. Yet, Della wants to show her affection and appreciation to James with a wonderful gift. The lesson she and James learn from their financial realities is priceless.

Oleson-Schackelford and Seggerman take on other roles in other vignettes, too. The breadth of performance opportunities is one of their favorite things about cabarets, they said.

“I feel like everyone gets equal time on stage, too, because there’s different stories,” Oleson-Schackelford said. “Not everyone is in the same story, but everyone gets their own time to shine.”

Seggerman agreed, saying that the numerous roles each performer has adds to the bond they share.

“It feels like we’re doing this as a team as opposed to individual people,” he said.

This is not PAW’s first Christmas-themed cabaret performance, but it is the first time the event will be hosted at the Grand LV event space, and it is the first time food will be served. Previously, performances were hosted at a Brandywine Middle/High School lecture hall.

The new setting and service makes this cabaret performance  more formal and more personal, said Lena Miles-LoRusso, a director of “Christmas Stories.”

“We’ve always enjoyed the intimate atmosphere, the idea of eating with a performance,” she said. “It’s a nice way to get into the holiday spirit.”

Miles-LoRusso adapted the script of the cabaret. She chose specific Christmas stories, drew from their dialogue and plotline and added music, which will be performed by a pianist, bassist and percussionist.

She hopes the heartfelt emotions the performers will bring out will add an extra layer of intimacy to the event.

“It’ll just be a great night of Christmas storytelling,” she said.