King Lear

Website: http://www.mnshakespeare.org/

Phone: 612-871-5168

Tickets: $15 general admission; $12 for students and seniors. Get the full experience of the company’s rotating casting and see the show twice! Buy tickets to two separate performances and receive a discount: $22 general; $20 for students and seniors. Bring a donation of warm socks for Simpson Housing and receive a $2 ticket discount. Group rates are available by contacting Minnesota Shakespeare Project at 612-871-5168.

Raw. Intimate. Elemental. A different cast every night. King Lear has three daughters and one crown to leave behind. His journey through storms and madness toward understanding and compassion has moved generations of theatergoers. Join us for an evening out with your own humanity. MN Shakespeare has turned the wheel on this great tragedy by creating it with a rotating company. Each main role is cast with two actors, who will play the role on different nights. On nights where actors do not play their main characters, they will fill in smaller roles. Each night, there will be a different match-up of actors on the stage, igniting a raw freshness that will fill each performance with exciting new discoveries for the audience.

RECESS!

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Tickets: $12 adults $8 children, seniors & teachers

Okay, class, pop quiz time. What do you get when you mix a young substitute teacher with a classroom full of the seemingly dumbest (and funniest) pupils found anywhere? A wise-cracking musical that's sure to put a smile on the principal's face, that's what. When Miss Quackenbush takes over a class at the Little Red Schoolhouse, she soon discovers why the previous teacher had a nervous breakdown. Unless the likable but hare-brained pupils can pass a simple exam, they won't advance to the next grade. It's one inane answer after another as Miss Quackenbush tries to promote this bunch of blockheads outta here. It won't be easy, though. Only a fool would want to leave this school.

$12 adults $8 children, seniors & teachers
Tickets sold at the door

Group rates available. For reservations or to purchase tickets by credit or debit card, please contact the workshop by email at info@upstageworkshop.com

Broken Brain Summit

Website: http://www.interactcenter.com

Phone: 651.334.3888

Tickets: $8 - $16

Heads will roll (and sing) when renegade researcher Dr. Dendrite gathers a motley crew of brain experts for a midnight meeting. Inspired by the true stories of actors who have experienced brain trauma, and scripted by Fringe favorite Amy Salloway and Interact. A show filled with metal heads, talking plants, memory loss, anger management plans and a whole lot more!

Good 'n' Plenty

Website: http://www.blankslatetheatre.com/

Phone: (612) 481-2234

Tickets: $12 for adults (21 and older) $7 for teens and students $5 for groups of 10 or more

Wintersville High School, 1976. Richard Miller is the hip new Social Studies instructor at his crumbling old alma matter, and decides to teach his students about the U.S. criminal justice system by staging a "drug game," where the students play pushers, buyers, narcs, cops, and lawyers, using Good ‘n’ Plenty candies as the contraband of choice. Bad idea. Good ‘n’ Plenty is a brilliant twist on high school madness, and a compelling meditation on democracy, as well.

A Thousand Cranes

Directed by: Madi Hyde

Website: http://www.upstagemtw.org/

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Tickets: Adults $12 Children/Seniors/Active & Retired military personnel & families $8 Group rates are available. e-mail for tickets cranes@upstagemtw.org

Sadako Saski was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the small city of Hiroshima, where she lived. Now 12 years old, she is an excellent athlete who races daily with her friend Kenji to prepare for an important competition. However, one day while running, Sadako gets dizzy and falls. It is discovered that she has radiation sickness -- leukemia -- an effect of the bombing that happened 10 years before, during which her grandmother was killed. A Thousand Cranes tells the true and poignant story of a young girl's journey. Retold here on our stage through the voices of two 12 year old actors, two adults, four puppeteers, and through the eyes of 14 year old director Madi Hyde, Sadako's voice and message take on a whole new life.

Lord of the Flies

Website: http://www.youngartistsmn.org

Phone: 651-222-KIDS

Tickets: $10.00 Adults $5.00 18 yrs and younger Group rates available for groups of 10 or more, call for information

William Golding's chilling novel about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island comes to life on stage. This production stays true to the novel by using an all youth cast. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away. A mix of greed, fear and power begins to transform the boys into something unimaginable...

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Directed by: Marie-Helene B. Grzesiak

Website: http://www.upstagemtw.org/

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Tickets: $12/adults $8/children Group rates for 10 or more

Maurice is no ordinary cat. He's amazing. He can think, he can talk… and he has an amazing scam going. And all he needs to pull it off is an army of intelligent rats and one stupid-looking kid. But when his gang enter Bad Blintz, the town they have decided to con next, they soon realize that all is not as it should be - and decide to investigate. Three squads of rats spread out under the town, their mission to dismantle traps, bury poison, do some serious widdling, and to find out exactly what those resident rat-catchers are up to… Adapted from the Carnegie Medal-winning novel by Stephen Briggs. Regional Premiere.

Generations

Directed by: Adam Arnold

Website: http://www.blankslatetheatre.com/

Phone: 612-481-2234

Tickets: $12 Adults $7 Teens (under 21) $5 Groups of 10 or more

A therapist’s office. A dance studio. And John Lennon. A story of hope amidst suffering, healing amidst trauma, and forgiveness amidst anger. Walk with young Teagan as she stumbles (gracefully) through recovery from abuse within her family, and finds salvation in a compassionate therapist, newfound friendships, and the artistic medium of dance. A blank slate theatre™ original.

ROAD works

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Phone: 612-360-8883

Tickets: All tickets are $16

A collection of new modern and jazz dance works by Jolene Konkel including the premiere of "Stoner Creek Suite", a tribute to her days spent in Montana and performed to the best of Bluegrass music, this is no ordinary square dance! As well as the premiere of "upheld" a compelling image of friendship in the midst of loss, along with Duke Ellington's Peer Gynt Suite fantasy and other works performed by a cast of 12 dynamic Twin Cities dancers! Come celebrate the last official weekend of summer with this fun for the whole family dance extravaganza!

Avoid the Grey

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Phone: 612.870.0420

Tickets: $8/ Seating is Limited Purchase advance tickets by visiting Cliche at 2403 Lyndale Ave So, or call 612.870.0420

Music: DJ Talk Radio

Songs for a New World

Directed by: Adam Arnold

Website: http://www.blankslatetheatre.com/

Phone: 612-481-2234

Tickets: $7 children (20 and under) $12 for adults $5 for former and present Blank Slate actors (enter code BST5 for discount)

Says the composer of this gripping revue, “It’s about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.” Composer Jason Robert Brown transports his audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue to meet a startling array of characters

LIVE MUSIC

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Tickets: Cover Charge - $5 cash Cash bar - beer and wine

Shinola is a brand of wax shoe polish that was available in the early- to mid-20th century. Shinola is also an old school jam band rooted in funk and soul. Old Arizona is an undiscovered gem on the south end of Eat Street . It enjoys a wide open party room and adjacent cafe that can hold up to 200 people comfortably. The facility has most often been used for theater productions and private parties, but the owners are experimenting with opening it up as a music venue on a semi-regular basis. Shinola is launching that experiment. You are the only thing missing. Bring friends and relatives.

The Vagina Monologues

Directed by: Kristen Strissel

Website: http://www.myspace.com/vdayminneapolis

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Tickets: $10

Hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and by the Daily News as "intelligent" and "courageous," The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-Broadway by Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences. Ms. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim throughout the world— from Zagreb to Santa Barbara, from London to Seattle, from Jerusalem to Oklahoma City.

Lye in the Water

Directed by: Amber Lee Olivier

Website: http://www.glasshousetheatre.com

Phone: 651.491.7708

Tickets: $15 general admission

When Tadhg crashes his motorcycle in a desolate landscape, a mysterious and beautiful woman comes to his rescue. However, looking closer he sees that her face is scarred and disfigured. She tells him there was "lye in the water." Tadhg is lost in the "armpit of nowhere" and can't find the road leading out of town. Lye in the Water is an Expressionistic play tragically weaving dishonesty, love, violence, family, death, incredulity and the art of being lost.

LIVE MUSIC

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Phone: 612-871-0050

Tickets: $5 cover ~ cash only Beer and wine available for purchase ~ cash preferred

The Wreck is an eclectic cover band, ranging from Blues, R&B, and straight up Rock and Roll, both older and newer. Very focused on Fun.

Strange Happenings at Jackknife Junction

Website: http://www.rainydaycabaret.com

Phone: 612-889-5693

Tickets: $10 in advance $12 at the door

A look into an alternate world in which the people experience anxiety, gluttony and rage through high energy and madcap choreography.

Wine and Chocolate Tasting

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Phone: 612-871-0050

Tickets: $20 per person in advance $25 at the door

Set the mood for Valentine's Day and join us for an evening of wine and chocolate tasting, the food and drink that most evoke the spirit of romance. Old Arizona is hosting this palate teasing, wonderfully decadent wine and chocolate tasting. Fine wines complemented by the right chocolate can be a match made in heaven! The event will benefit Old Arizona’s youth programs. Please join us in sampling and learning about a variety of fine wines. Various cheeses and *pintxos will be served. Bottles of wine will be available for purchase the night of the event. *Pinxto is a basque word for small bites

Wake the Dead

Website: www.rainydaycabaret.com

Phone: 612-889-5693

Tickets: $12 in advance/ $15 at the door Prizes awarded for best costume!

RDC brings you a night of ghoulish pleasure. Our cryptic cabaret will haunt you with wicked choreography and hypnotizing music. Experience the creepfest!

Eat Street Progressive Happy Hour

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As a participant in Eat Street’s Progressive Happy Hour and a community partner with Finnegan’s, a tasty locally brewed beer, on October 29 & 30, 2009, Old Arizona will provide complimentary wine tastings in the Spirit Room, half price chocolate shots in the Lounge, and two-for-one Finnegan’s Beer in the Café. Owners of both Old Arizona and Finnegan’s believe operating a successful business is the best way to create and fund life-changing opportunities and therefore give 100% of their profits to non-profit organizations—Old Arizona to its out-of-school time programs for inner city teen girls, and Finnegan’s to charities fighting poverty. Please join us and experience Finnegan’s beer, new wines, and great chocolate…all of which are best when shared.

Avoid the Grey

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Phone: 612-870-0420

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Featuring: Niki English, kjurek couture, Amanda Christine, Peloria, syd Carmichael Claith, Kathryn V, Dawson, Kelson, Ivan Idland, Jenny Carle, Tender Cuts, Red Shoe Clothing Co., Ashley Busch, Arwyn Birch, and Rachel DeLange.

Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Directed by: Sarah Teich - Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Joshua Iley - The Dumb Waiter

Website: http://www.3amprod.org/

Phone: 612•339•0207

Tickets: Adult: $18 Student/Senior: $16 Groups of 10+: $14

3AM Productions invites you to sit back, grab a beverage, sit back and enjoy an evening of suspense, provocation, and laughter. Join us for Pinter's THE DUMB WAITER and Mamet's SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO followed by a rotating schedule of improv performers.

Open Your Heart for Haiti

Website: http://www.haitioutreach.org

Phone: 952-470-1336

Tickets: The suggested minimum donation is $25. Your generosity is encouraged. Haiti's needs are enormous.

An Evening of Live Music with Trailer Trash, The Maeflies and more, live auction and cool things to buy!