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Are you a night owl? Always on the lookout for something entertaining to do on the weekend that doesn't involve dance parties, the repetitive bar scene, or trying to make it through Saturday Night Live? Balls is always a sure thing. The weekly midnight cabaret is one of the longest-running open...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Orpheum Theatre :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Wed., January 11 until Sun., February 12, 7:30pm
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It's back. Disney's hit Broadway musical, which made its debut at the Orpheum in 1997, returns "home" for an extended run in January and February. Elton John and Tim Rice crafted the songs, while Julie Taymor (the now infamous original director of Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark who also has a...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Guthrie Theater :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., January 14 until Sun., February 26, 7:30pm
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An intriguing cast of local favorites, a Tony nominee, and a television performer with ties to the Guthrie will take the stage for the theater's production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Leading the company in the Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, for the second time that the...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Guthrie Theater :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., January 28 until Sun., March 11, 7:30pm
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Though Judy Garland was born in Grand Rapids, her connection to our state could be fairly defined as negligible. Garland's family did, after all, pack up for California when the future star of stage and screen was only a child. Even so, many Minnesotans tend to count Garland as one of our own....
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Park Square Theatre :
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 22 until Sun., February 12, 2:00pm
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Park Square Theatre tackles Ragtime to start off 2012, bringing the complex musical, based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, to its stage. The story is set in the early part of the 20th century, and follows a trio of families—one upper-class white, one Jewish immigrant, one...
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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Chanhassen Dinner Theatres :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., August 5 until Sat., May 26, 8:00pm
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Really, you can't stop the beat. Chanhassen may not be the epitome of cool, but here's something that may be worth the trip to exurbia. Based on John Waters's 1988 look back on his Baltimore youth and the televised dance shows that brought R&B to the lily-white neighborhoods, the musical...
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Chanhassen
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Illusion Theater & School :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., February 9 until Sat., February 25, 8:00pm
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The Ballad of the Pale Fisherman, one of the surprise hits of the 2010 Minnesota Fringe Festival, is back in a fuller, more realized piece through the support of Illusion Theater's Light's Up! series. The play, based on a Celtic folk story about a fisherman who falls in love with a selkie...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater :
Every week Friday from Fri., February 10 until Fri., February 17, 6:00pm
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Those holding the notion that an ideal evening's entertainment involves disengaging the mind for a few hours will surely want to avoid Brain Game. The piece, which is the creation of burgeoning performance group Table Salt Productions, is the proud antithesis of passive theater, requiring...
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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History Theatre :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., January 19 until Sun., February 19
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Though cultural transformations tend to possess a diaphanous quality, making it difficult to perceive evolving shifts in our social mindset, every so often a specific time period will be retrospectively recognized as an era of profound change. One year commonly singled out as a drastic turning...
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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Jungle Theater :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Tue., February 7 until Sun., March 18, 7:30pm
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The Jungle Theater founder Bain Boehlke is set to return to the stage with the thriller Dial M for Murder, Frederick Knotts's 1952 play that Alfred Hitchcock adapted into his famed film. It's certainly not the first time the theater has delved into mysteries, or Hitchcock for that matter, as...
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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Mixed Blood Theatre :
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., February 9 until Sun., March 4, 7:30pm
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Whatever one's opinion is of the Occupy movement, there's no denying that the demonstrations have brought increased attention to the unprecedented disparity between the wealthiest of Americans and the vast majority whose incomes have stagnated (or outright vanished) over the past decade....
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Open Eye Figure Theatre :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., February 9 until Sun., March 4, 7:30pm
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For the first time in nearly five years, Michael Sommers presents a brand-new, full-length puppet show at Open Eye Figure Theatre. This time, Sommers tackles The Sorcerer's Apprentice, taking Goethe's famed 1797 poem "Der Zauberlehrling" in fresh and unexpected directions. The last time Sommers...
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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Huge Theater :
Every week Monday, 8:00pm
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"From inside the human mind!" a poster boasts for this ongoing Monday-night happening at Huge Theater. Each week, 12 different groups—including folks from Brave New Workshop, Ferrari McSpeedy, Fingergun, and ComedySportz—come together in a mashup sampling of some of the best improv...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Southern Theater :
Every week Thursday, Friday from Thu., January 26 until Sun., February 12, 7:00pm
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It's the Year of the Dragon, so get ready for some scaly, fire-breathing fun at the Southern Theater. The Dragons are Singing Tonight is presented by TigerLion Arts, in collaboration with the Minnesota Boychoir, Puppet Farm Arts, and Circus Juventas, and is sure to be a magical experience for...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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Valentine's Day, Theater |
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Powderhorn
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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Macalester/Groveland
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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Lectures, Theater |
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Anodyne Coffee House :
First Thursday of every month from Thu., January 5 until Thu., April 5, 7:30pm
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Kingfield
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Maple Grove
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Phalen
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Howard Conn Fine Arts Center :
Every week Thursday, Friday from Thu., February 9 until Sun., February 26, 12:30pm
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Plymouth Playhouse :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30pm
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Plymouth
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