Fun Home
4/2 - 5/4/2025
Music by Jeanine Tesori Book & Lyrics by Lisa Kron Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel Directed by Addie Gorlin-Han Music Direction by ...
Passion
6/4 - 7/13/2025
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine Directed by Justin Lucero Music Direction by Jason Hansen Artistic Director Justin Lucero will lead ...
Review: THE LAST 5 YEARS at Ashland Productions
by Jared Fessler - March 09, 2025
What did our critic think of THE LAST 5 YEARS at Ashland Productions?...
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Ordway Center For The Performing Arts
by Jared Fessler - March 05, 2025
What did our critic think of COME FROM AWAY at Ordway Center For The Performing Arts?...
Review: LIFE OF PI at Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis
by Jared Fessler - March 05, 2025
The national tour of Life of Pi made a stunning stop at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis from March 5–9, 2025, delivering a visually mesmerizing and emotionally powerful theatrical experience. Adapted from Yann Martel’s beloved novel, this stage production—winner of multiple Tony and Olivier Award...
Review: THE FORGET TOMORROW WORLD TOUR - JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at Xcel Energy Center
by Jared Fessler - February 25, 2025
On February 24, 2025, Justin Timberlake brought his Forget Tomorrow World Tour to the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, MN, delivering an electrifying performance that left fans in awe. This tour, Timberlake's first in five years, has received an overwhelming response, selling over one million ticke...
Review: THE SNOWY DAY at Minnesota Opera
by Joe Sarafolean - February 14, 2025
What did our critic think of THE SNOWY DAY at MN Opera?...
Review: HADESTOWN at Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis
by Jared Fessler - February 12, 2025
The Hadestown National Tour’s stop at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis delivers an unforgettable theatrical experience that captivates from start to finish. Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony Award-winning folk-jazz musical, which reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, comes to life in a visually s...
Review: SCHOOL PICTURES at Theater Latté Da
by Joe Sarafolean - February 10, 2025
In Milo Cramer’s searing one man show, School Pictures, he carefully and masterfully brings to life the stories of students that he had the pleasure of tutoring for many years in New York City. Told through a series of songs, accompanied by a variety of instruments all played by Cramer, he details h...
Review: GREASE at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
by Jared Fessler - February 08, 2025
What did our critic think of GREASE at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres?...
Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Guthrie Theater
by Joe Sarafolean - February 07, 2025
It may be the dead of winter in Minnesota but that is not stopping the Guthrie Theater from taking audiences to the moonlight filled forests of Athens in the middle of summer. Yes, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is back on the Guthrie stage and this ravishing production proves why i...
Review: SHUCKED at Des Moines Performing Arts
by Jared Fessler - January 31, 2025
The corn-fed comedy Shucked has officially taken root at Des Moines Performing Arts, delighting audiences with its pun-filled humor, heartwarming story, and toe-tapping country score. Playing now through February 2, 2025, this Tony-winning musical proves that sometimes, a little corniness is exactly...
Past Shows
School Pictures
2/5 - 3/2/2025
Written & Performed by Milo Cramer Directed by Morgan Green New York Magazine ’s choice for Best Play of 2023, a “completely wonderful” musical portrait ...
Twelve Angry Men, A New Musical
6/11 - 7/17/2022
Musical adaptation of Reginald Rose's classic American play; Music and Lyrics by Michael Holland; Book by David Simpatico; Directed by Peter Rothstein...
La Boheme
1/20 - 2/27/2022
Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe GiacosaNew orchestration by Joseph Schlefke Directed by Peter Rothstein Music Direction by Sonja ThompsonFeaturing Corissa ...
Bernarda Alba
1/15 - 2/16/2020
In a small village in Spain, five unmarried daughters try to escape a domineering mother....
Chicago
9/18 - 11/3/2019
Chicago is a sassy and satirical musical set in the roaring twenties of Chicago. It tells the story of Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, two ...
Chicago
9/18 - 11/3/2019
CHICAGOBook by Fred Ebb and Bob FosseMusic by John KanderLyrics by Fred EbbBased on the play by Maurine Dallas WatkinsScript adaptation by David ThompsonDirected by ...
To Let Go and Fall
5/29 - 6/30/2019
Cowles Center: Harrison David Rivers; music: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; dir: Peter Rothstein....
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3/27 - 5/5/2019
Cowles Center: John Cameron Mitchell; lyrics: Stephen Trask; music: Stephen Trask; dir: Annie Enneking, Peter Rothstein....
Candide
3/21 - 3/24/2019
Cowles Center: book: Hugh Wheeler; lyrics: Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Wilbur; music: Leonard Berstein; dir: Peter Rothstein....
A Little Night Music
1/23 - 3/3/2019
Cowles Center: Hugh Wheeler; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Peter Rothstein....
A Little Night Music
1/23 - 3/3/2019
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman Originally Produced and Directed ...
Once
9/12 - 10/27/2018
Once Book by Enda Walsh Music & Lyrics by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová Based on the Motion Picture Written and Directed by John Carney ...
Once
9/18 - 10/21/2018
Set in Dublin, the story revolves around Guy, a talented but discouraged street musician, and a young Czech woman, simply known as Girl. Guy's music ...
Next: New Work Festival
7/1 - 8/1/2018
Ritz Theater:...
Underneath the Lintel
5/30 - 7/1/2018
A by-the-book (no pun intended) librarian sets out to find the culprit who returns a book 113 years overdue. A clue scribbled in the margin ...
Assassins
2/7 - 3/18/2018
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by John Weidman Directed by Peter Rothstein Music Direction by Jason Hansen Featuring: Dieter Bierbrauer, Shinah Brashears, James ...
Assassins
2/7 - 3/18/2018
Stephen Sondheim; book: John Weidman; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Peter Rothstein. Ritz Theater:...
MAN OF LA MANCHA
9/13 - 10/22/2017
Trapped in a dungeon, an eccentric old man tells of the adventures of Don Quixote: his campaign to restore the age of chivalry, to battle ...
NEXT New Work Festival
5/1 - 6/1/2017
Six Degrees of Separation
3/8 - 4/9/2017
Inspired by a true story, the play follows the trail of a young black con man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a ...
Peter and the Starcatcher
2/1 - 2/26/2017
Peter And The Starcatcher, the most magical evening of madcap fun is now on tour! Hailed by The New York Times as “The most exhilarating ...
A Christmas Carole Petersen
11/30 - 12/23/2016
Tod Petersen, Peter Rothstein; dir: Peter Rothstein....
A Christmas Carole Petersen
11/30 - 12/23/2016
Tod Petersen, Peter Rothstein; dir: Peter Rothstein....
Ragtime
9/21 - 10/23/2016
Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once on This Island, Seussical and Lucky Stiff), noted playwright Terrence McNally, and ...
Ragtime
9/21 - 10/23/2016
Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once on This Island, Seussical and Lucky Stiff), noted playwright Terrence McNally, and ...
NEXT: Musicals in the Making
5/4 - 5/22/2016
C.
3/30 - 4/24/2016
book: Bradley Greenwald; lyrics: Bradley Greenwald; music: Robert Elhai; dir: Peter Rothstein....
Gypsy
2/13 - 3/13/2016
Connecticut's Longest Running Outdoor Theater. Get ready for an astounding summer of classic musical theater in 2011....
Lullaby
1/13 - 2/7/2016
Michael Elyanow; lyrics: Jonatha Brooke, Michael Elyanow; music: Jonatha Brooke, Michael Elyanow; dir: Jeremy B. Cohen....
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
9/23 - 10/25/2015
adapt: Christopher Boyd; book: Hugh Wheeler; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Peter Rothstein....
NEXT: New Musicals in the Making
4/30 - 5/17/2015
Into the Woods
3/4 - 3/29/2015
Stepping into the world of Into the Woods, the musical by James Lapin with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, is like entering a twisted ...
Oliver!
2/4 - 3/1/2015
"Oliver!" is a heart-wrenching and captivating musical based on Charles Dickens' classic novel, Oliver Twist. The story transports you to the grimy underbelly of Victorian ...
Our Town
3/12 - 4/6/2014
Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts: “Daily Life,” ...
Cabaret
1/15 - 2/9/2014
The original 1966 version of Cabaret, the groundbreaking musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff, offered a stark and satirical look at pre-war ...
All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
12/19 - 12/22/2013
The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence comes a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man’s Land singing Stille ...
Steerage Song
9/25 - 10/20/2013
Dan Chouinard, Peter Rothstein; dir: Peter Rothstein....
The Light in the Piazza
3/14 - 4/7/2013
McKnight Theatre: - Craig Lucas; lyrics: Adam Guettel; music: Adam Guettel....
Spring Awakening
4/12 - 5/6/2012
Spring Awakening
3/12 - 5/6/2012
Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Spring Awakening was adapted from Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play about the trials, tears, and exhilaration of ...
Beautiful Thing
2/24 - 3/19/2012
Beautiful Thing
2/24 - 3/18/2012
Telling the whole world that you’ve fallen in love is a right of passage, but what happens when you fall in love with someone of ...
All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
12/15 - 12/18/2011
The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence comes a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man’s Land singing Stille ...
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
10/6 - 10/30/2011
This Tony Award-winning show is the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a ...
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Dear Evan Hansen
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Something Rotten
Chaska Valley Family Theatre (3/28 - 4/6)
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This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing
Ten Thousand Things (2/27 - 3/16)
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Come From Away
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (3/4 - 3/9) | |
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Je''Caryous Johnson Presents: Jason''s Lyric Live!
Old National Centre (3/16 - 3/16) | |
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Trevor Wallace: The Alpha Beta Male
Pantages Theatre (4/26 - 4/26) | |
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Groucho Marx Meets T.S. Eliot
ILLUSION THEATER (2/21 - 3/15)
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Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster
Children's Theatre Company (1/8 - 3/9) | |
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue
Coronado Theatre (4/10 - 4/10) | |
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