Presented by Commonweal Theatre Company

• Comedy
• Musical

In this charming musical, quirky sixth-graders battle for the ultimate title: spelling champ of Putnam Valley Middle School! With each new word, the earnest combatants reveal their passions, fears and dreams through hilarious and touching tunes. (And it’s not just about the spelling: the adult cast is ultra geek-chic in their middle school costumes!) Alan Bailey, director of such audience favorites as Souvenir and Sylvia, returns for this Tony Award-winning musical about friendship, sacrifice and valuable lessons in fair play.

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Presented by Chaska Valley Family Theatre

• Musical

One of the most explosive movie musicals of all time bursts onto the live stage! A teenager and his mom move from Chicago to a small Texas town where dancing has been outlawed. Audiences can bop along to catchy 1980's pop and rock ("Footloose," "Let's Hear it for the Boy," "Holding out for a Hero") as a band of determined teens challenges the town council to abolish the ordinance and allow them to hold a dance.

Performances will be held: 

Friday, June 15, 2018, 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 16, 2018, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 17, 2018, 2 p.m. 

Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 21, 2018, 7 p.m.

Friday, June 22, 2018, 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 23, 2018, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 24, 2018, 2 p.m.

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Presented by Park Square Theatre

• Comedy

The game’s afoot in this hilarious thriller that’s anything but elementary! From the award-winning mastermind of mayhem, Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor), comes a fast-paced comedy about everyone’s favorite detective duo solving their most notorious case. Five actors play over 40 comical characters, filling the stage with suspects, allies and heirs. When the wealthy Henry Baskerville is threatened by the fable of a bloodthirsty hound on the moors, Holmes and Watson are on the case to sniff out the culprit.

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Presented by Lyric Arts Main Street Stage

• Drama

By Robert Harling
Directed by Angela Timberman

Set in an in-home beauty parlor owned and operated by the outspoken and wise-cracking Truvy, this modern classic explores the deep bond that forms between a group of outspoken Southern women as they share their triumphs and tragedies with each other.

Filled with sidesplitting reparte—and more than a few sharp but humorous verbal collisions, Steel Magnolias is hilarious and touching and, in the end, reveals a deep emotional truth underlying the witty banter of its eccentrtic characters.

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Presented by Shoot the Glass Theater

• Comedy
• Musical

Shoot the Glass is proud to present Stephen Sondheim's classic Into the Woods at the Crane Theater, June 7th - July 1st. Featuring an intimate, 80 seat venue and a local cast of all-star performers including Becca Hart, Emily Jansen, Kyler Chase and Frank Moran (to name a few- see the whole cast here), Into the Woods is certain to be a thrilling, hilarious, and enchanting theatrical event. 

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Presented by Sheep Theater

• Comedy
• Storytelling

After crashing her plane on a mysterious island, Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot, Snook, must venture into the underworld to try to get home. However, their presence has unleashed an apocalyptic force that has been locked away for 35,000 years: the Minotaur.

Ticket price:
Adults: $20 (in advance), $25 (at the door)
Students: $16
Children (0-12yo): $12

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Presented by University of Minnesota Open Stage

• Drama

Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Ruby Rae Spiegel's Dry Land, a long-running labor of love for this all-female production team, is a play about abortion, the harshness and sweetness of young womanhood, and the sticky ambience of a high school locker room that everybody’s left.  

Directed by Madeline Wall. Produced by Maddy Folstein and Madeline Wall through the University of Minnesota’s student theatre group, Open Stage. Featuring Isaac Bont, Leif Hove, Stephanie Kahle, Reba Landers, and Kate Plasterer. 

Tickets are available for online reservation: pick-your-price between $6 and $20. Seating is general admission and limited, so we encourage advanced reservation!  https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3431606

Online sales end 2 hours before the performance starts, and then tickets at the door are $10. 

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Presented by The Chameleon Theatre Circle and Fearless Comedy Productions

• Comedy
• Storytelling

Caucasian-Aggressive Pandas and Other Mulatto Tales

by Duck Washington

Directed by Jena Young

produced in association with Fearless Comedy Productions

June 8-24, 2018

In the Black Box at the Bloomington Center for the Arts

 

Racism will be mocked, racists shunned, and stereotypes exposed in this humorous exploration of what it's like to be mixed race, deal with stereotypes, and find your place in the world. Inspired by playwright Duck Washington's own experiences, this mix of story-telling and sketch comedy will move you to buoyant laughter and deep thoughts as it examines concepts that are always more than just black-and-white.

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Presented by Classical Actors Ensemble

• Drama
• Comedy

For the fifth consecutive summer, CAE presents free Shakespeare in our Twin Cities parks. This year: Romeo and Juliet, the powerful masterpiece of joyful passion and pitiless fate.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Directed by Joseph Papke
June 15 - July 15

Friday, June 15th, 7pm - Lake Harriet Rose Gardens, Mpls
Saturday, June 16th, 7pm - Lake of the Isles, Mpls
Sunday, June 17th, 2pm - Newell Park, St. Paul
Thursday, June 21st, 7pm - St. Clement's Church, St. Paul
Friday, June 22nd, 7pm - Matthews Park, Mpls
Saturday, June 23rd, 7pm - Lake of the Isles, Mpls
Sunday, June 24th, 2pm - Cedar Lake Hidden Beach, Mpls
Tuesday, June 26th, 7pm - Levee Park, Hastings
Friday, June 29th, 7pm - Wolfe Park Amphitheater, St. Louis Park
Saturday, June 30th, 7pm - Lake of the Isles, Mpls
Sunday, July 1st, 7pm - Centennial Lakes Park, Edina
Friday, July 6th, 7pm - Newell Park, St. Paul
Saturday, July 7th, 7pm - Lake of the Isles, Mpls
Sunday, July 8th, 2pm - Grandview Park, South St. Paul
Thursday, July 12th, 7pm - Tony Schmidt Park, Arden Hills
Friday, July 13th, 7pm - Como Park, St. Paul
Saturday, July 14th, 7pm - Lake of the Isles, Mpls
Sunday, July 15th, 2pm - Lake of the Isles, Mpls

Featuring
Jim Ahrens, Ankita Ashrit, Jared Beebe, Helen Collins, Tom Conry, Maren Findlay, Joseph Finn-Bolling, Siri Hellerman, Jacob Hooper, Leif Jurgensen, Nicholas LeDoux, Samantha V. Papke, Doug Petty, Jack Squier, Tyler Stamm, Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan, Alice Tibbetts, Alan Tilson, Mike Tober, Emma VanVactor-Lee, and Josh Weisenburger

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Presented by Minnesota Opera

• Drama
• Musical

An opera by Gregory Spears
Libretto by Greg Pierce
Based on the 2007 novel Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon
Developed and Co-Commissioned by G. Sterling Zinsmeyer & Cincinnati Opera

 

The story of a forbidden love affair between two men in 1950s McCarthy-era Washington, D.C., Fellow Travelers is a searing opera infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and sincere heartbreak. A chance encounter between recent college graduate Timothy Laughlin and handsome State Department official Hawkins Fuller results in Tim’s first job—and his first love affair with a man. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on removing “sexual subversives” in the government, Tim and Fuller find it increasingly dangerous to navigate their double lives.

Sung in English with English captions projected above the stage.

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Presented by Theatre in the Round Players

• Drama

It’s April, 1922, and actor William Gillette, famous for portraying Sherlock Holmes for 30 years, has invited the cast of his latest play to spend the weekend at his castle home in Connecticut. When a late-night séance reveals a murder, Gillette must solve the case using everything he’s learned from playing the great detective. Popular playwright Ken Ludwig mixes suspense and humor in a show that has delighted audiences nationwide.

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Presented by Blue Water Theatre Company

• Musical

Dolly Levi's purpose in life is to help people find happiness, specifically in the world of romance. Currently preoccupied with finding a match for cantankerous half-a-millionaire Horace Vandergelder, Dolly comes to realize that, after years of ignoring her own needs following the death of her beloved husband, it's time for her to rejoin the human race before the parade of life passes her by. Filled with some of the most famous songs in Broadway history, Hello, Dolly! is an evening at the theatre that will delight you from start to finish while possibly unexpectedly moving you to tears when you least expect it.

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Presented by The Phipps Center for the Arts

• Drama

"The Red Box," by Joseph Goodrich adapted from the novel by Rex Stout
The brilliant and quirky Nero Wolfe untangles a murder mystery which reveals a complicated family drama full of secrets and half-truths.

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Presented by Harmony Theatre Company and School

• Drama
• Kids

June 17-24. Four shows. Two venues.

A new play about Israeli humanitarian work. Run time is less than an hour. Suitable for all audiences.  A post-show discussion with guest speakers and the cast.

FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE on www.harmonytheatre.org

An original play based on true stories from an Israeli humanitarian organization that provides free life-saving heart surgery for children in need worldwide.

Seven-year-old Maria from Romania was born with a rare heart disease that has no cure in her home country. When brought to Wolfson Hospital in Israel for surgery, Maria makes friends with a little girl from Gaza, a college student volunteer from Illinois, and doctors who have already saved over 4,500 children from 55 different countries. While the doctors strive to mend the children’s hearts, the children set their hearts on fixing the entire world.

There will be four shows in June on two venues:

* Sabes JCC on Sunday, June 17 @ 3 p.m. 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN 55416

* Sabes JCC on Sunday, June 17 @ 6 p.m. 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN 55416

* Stoll Thrust Theatre (University of Minnesota Rarig Center) on Thursday, June 21 @ 7 p.m. 330 21st Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55455

* Stoll Thrust Theatre (University of Minnesota Rarig Center) on Thursday, June 24 @ 4 p.m. 330 21st Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55455

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
 

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Presented by Harmony Theatre Company and School

• Drama
• Kids

June 17-24. Four shows. Two venues.

A new play about Israeli humanitarian work. Run time is less than an hour. Suitable for all audiences.  A post-show discussion with guest speakers and the cast.

FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE on www.harmonytheatre.org

An original play based on true stories from an Israeli humanitarian organization that provides free life-saving heart surgery for children in need worldwide.

Seven-year-old Maria from Romania was born with a rare heart disease that has no cure in her home country. When brought to Wolfson Hospital in Israel for surgery, Maria makes friends with a little girl from Gaza, a college student volunteer from Illinois, and doctors who have already saved over 4,500 children from 55 different countries. While the doctors strive to mend the children’s hearts, the children set their hearts on fixing the entire world.

There will be four shows in June on two venues:

* Sabes JCC on Sunday, June 17 @ 3 p.m. 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN 55416

* Sabes JCC on Sunday, June 17 @ 6 p.m. 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN 55416

* Stoll Thrust Theatre (University of Minnesota Rarig Center) on Thursday, June 21 @ 7 p.m. 330 21st Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55455

* Stoll Thrust Theatre (University of Minnesota Rarig Center) on Thursday, June 24 @ 4 p.m. 330 21st Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55455

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
 

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Presented by The Cromulent Shakespeare Company

• Comedy

Shakespeare's popular comedy about greed, manipulation, and misguided approaches to romance. Full of great gags, this production is fun for the whole family. 

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Presented by Chanhassen Dinner Theatres

• Musical

Inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City, Jack Kelly and his friends live day-by-day selling newspapers for pennies. When a publishing giant raises the price the Newsies pay - the Newsies declare a strike against all the publishing giants. Through courage, determination, and friendship the Newsies are ready to take a stand and seize the day!

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Presented by Guthrie Theater

• Musical

It's 1957 and two rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, are prowling the streets of Manhattan's West Side. When Tony falls for Maria, the sister of a rival gang member, a rumble is planned. Like Romeo and Juliet they're caught in an ages-long feud with no escape, even as they pledge their love for each other. Through the genius of Bernstein and Sondheim, incomparable hits like "Maria," "Tonight," "Cool" and "I Feel Pretty" are merged with the greatest love story ever told in this larger-than-life musical.

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Presented by Red Eye Theater

• Dance
• Experimental

Week Four: ISOLATED ACTS, June 14-15-16-17

A Double Bill

The Crapture by Dolo McComb

+ Guriga by Amal Rogers

In her new solo, The Crapture, Dolo McComb sets out on a quest to discover the space where things become their opposites. From the bottom of the cauldron worn thin by grief seeps awe. Lady Death slips on a banana peel, giving birth to a dove.  

Carrying all she needs with her, Amal Rogers in her solo Guriga, assembles and then packs away a warm and personal home where she can dance, eat, bathe, and rest. Guriga is a sometimes inviting sometimes private ritual of the protection and power of home. 

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