| 7:00 pm Nov 23rd | "Help Wanted" Kimmel TheatreOrganization for Latino Awareness brings "Teatro del Pueblo" theatre group. "Help Wanted" tells the story of impoverished immigrants who came to Minnesota to seek a better life and to help their family in Mexico. Three actors playing multiple roles present scenes depicting life in Mexico, a dangerous border crossing, unionizing efforts, detention by the INS, and demonstrations in support of hotel workers. This satirical piece demonstrates the plight of workers whose labor is needed in Minnesota, but who risk harsh treatment and inequities when trying to fill this need. |
| 7:30 pm Dec 4th | Theatre Production: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" Armstrong HallBased on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. Directed by Jim VanValen. Dec. 4, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. This family-friendly production journeys through the innocence of childhood crushes to the great anticipation of baseball season. The 1999 revision of the show adds several songs to the original score, and offers performers an opportunity to celebrate some of the dimensions of story-telling while warming the hearts of its audiences. |
| 2:00 pm Dec 5th | Theatre Production: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" Armstrong HallBased on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. Directed by Jim VanValen. Dec. 4, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. This family-friendly production journeys through the innocence of childhood crushes to the great anticipation of baseball season. The 1999 revision of the show adds several songs to the original score, and offers performers an opportunity to celebrate some of the dimensions of story-telling while warming the hearts of its audiences. |
| 2:00 pm Dec 6th | Theatre Production: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" Armstrong HallBased on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. Directed by Jim VanValen. Dec. 4, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. This family-friendly production journeys through the innocence of childhood crushes to the great anticipation of baseball season. The 1999 revision of the show adds several songs to the original score, and offers performers an opportunity to celebrate some of the dimensions of story-telling while warming the hearts of its audiences. |
| 7:30 pm Dec 11th | Theatre Production: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" Armstrong HallBased on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. Directed by Jim VanValen. Dec. 4, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. This family-friendly production journeys through the innocence of childhood crushes to the great anticipation of baseball season. The 1999 revision of the show adds several songs to the original score, and offers performers an opportunity to celebrate some of the dimensions of story-telling while warming the hearts of its audiences. |
| 2:00 pm Dec 12th | Theatre Production: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" Armstrong HallBased on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. Directed by Jim VanValen. Dec. 4, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13 at 2 p.m. Box Office 895-4293. This family-friendly production journeys through the innocence of childhood crushes to the great anticipation of baseball season. The 1999 revision of the show adds several songs to the original score, and offers performers an opportunity to celebrate some of the dimensions of story-telling while warming the hearts of its audiences. |
| 7:30 pm Dec 12th | Theatre Production: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" Armstrong HallBased on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. Directed by Jim VanValen. Dec. 4, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. This family-friendly production journeys through the innocence of childhood crushes to the great anticipation of baseball season. The 1999 revision of the show adds several songs to the original score, and offers performers an opportunity to celebrate some of the dimensions of story-telling while warming the hearts of its audiences. |
| 2:00 pm Dec 13th | Theatre Production: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" Armstrong HallBased on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. Directed by Jim VanValen. Dec. 4, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. This family-friendly production journeys through the innocence of childhood crushes to the great anticipation of baseball season. The 1999 revision of the show adds several songs to the original score, and offers performers an opportunity to celebrate some of the dimensions of story-telling while warming the hearts of its audiences. |
| 7:00 pm Jan 19th | The Best of Blaxploitation Armstrong HallPulling from MPAACT's hit productions, Blaxploitation the Remix and Blax 2, You know how we Deux, THE BEST OF BLAX...is a collection of original sketch performances that are unabashedly courageous and provocative in their take on race, class, and American politics. |
| 7:30 pm Jan 28th | Lyric Theatre Performance (TBA) King ChapelThursday, Friday, Saturday, January 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 p.m. |
| 7:30 pm Jan 29th | Lyric Theatre Performance (TBA) King ChapelThursday, Friday, Saturday, January 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 p.m. |
| 7:30 pm Jan 30th | Lyric Theatre Performance (TBA) King ChapelThursday, Friday, Saturday, January 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 p.m. |
| 7:30 pm Feb 12th | Theatre Production: "Arabian Nights" by Mary Zimmerman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Greg Redlawsk. Feb. 12, 13, 19, 20-7:30 p.m., Feb. 21-2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. Adaptation of the Middle Eastern classic "One Thousand and One Nights" tells the story of Scheherezade and the tales she spins to keep herself alive while at the mercy of her new husband, the mad Caliph Shahryar. Her shimmering tales of love, lust, morality, & power (with plenty of humor) fascinate & entertain, while reminding us of the tragic contemporary context of this rich & storied culture. |
| 7:30 pm Feb 13th | Theatre Production: "Arabian Nights" by Mary Zimmerman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Greg Redlawsk. Feb. 12, 13, 19, 20-7:30 p.m., Feb. 21-2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. Adaptation of the Middle Eastern classic "One Thousand and One Nights" tells the story of Scheherezade and the tales she spins to keep herself alive while at the mercy of her new husband, the mad Caliph Shahryar. Her shimmering tales of love, lust, morality, & power (with plenty of humor) fascinate & entertain, while reminding us of the tragic contemporary context of this rich & storied culture. |
| 7:30 pm Feb 19th | Theatre Production: "Arabian Nights" by Mary Zimmerman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Greg Redlawsk. Feb. 12, 13, 19, 20-7:30 p.m., Feb. 21-2:00 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. Adaptation of the Middle Eastern classic "One Thousand and One Nights" tells the story of Scheherezade and the tales she spins to keep herself alive while at the mercy of her new husband, the mad Caliph Shahryar. Her shimmering tales of love, lust, morality, & power (with plenty of humor) fascinate & entertain, while reminding us of the tragic contemporary context of this rich & storied culture. |
| 7:30 pm Feb 20th | Theatre Production: "Arabian Nights " by Mary Zimmerman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Greg Redlawsk. Feb. 12, 13, 19, 20-7:30 p.m., Feb. 21-2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. Adaptation of the Middle Eastern classic "One Thousand and One Nights" tells the story of Scheherezade and the tales she spins to keep herself alive while at the mercy of her new husband, the mad Caliph Shahryar. Her shimmering tales of love, lust, morality, & power (with plenty of humor) fascinate & entertain, while reminding us of the tragic contemporary context of this rich & storied culture. |
| 2:00 pm Feb 21st | Theatre Production: "Arabian Nights" by Mary Zimmerman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Greg Redlawsk. Feb. 12, 13, 19, 20-7:30 p.m., Feb. 21-2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. Adaptation of the Middle Eastern classic "One Thousand and One Nights" tells the story of Scheherezade and the tales she spins to keep herself alive while at the mercy of her new husband, the mad Caliph Shahryar. Her shimmering tales of love, lust, morality, & power (with plenty of humor) fascinate & entertain, while reminding us of the tragic contemporary context of this rich & storied culture. |
| 7:30 pm Apr 16th | Theatre Production: "Akarui" by Jennifer Silverman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Mark Hunter. April 16, 17, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m., April 25 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. A witch with an appetite for scientific investigation and a split personality, experimenting on the body of a young (and very conscious) murder victim; the murder victim's psychotic killer, torn between violent impulses and a poetic conscience; a socially reclusive young tranny (changing from a female into a male); the impossibly sexy Brazilian musician who has taken an interest in the transboi; and a manta ray transforming into something human . . . all these characters convene at a warehouse at the end of the world, where DJ Akarui is laying down beats and conducting a rave in which all transformations are possible. Silverman’s extraordinary play is a unique theatrical event of explosive imagination, riveting energy, and penetrating insights. |
| 7:30 pm Apr 17th | Theatre Production: "Akarui" by Jennifer Silverman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Mark Hunter. April 16, 17, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m., April 25 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. A witch with an appetite for scientific investigation and a split personality, experimenting on the body of a young (and very conscious) murder victim; the murder victim's psychotic killer, torn between violent impulses and a poetic conscience; a socially reclusive young tranny (changing from a female into a male); the impossibly sexy Brazilian musician who has taken an interest in the transboi; and a manta ray transforming into something human . . . all these characters convene at a warehouse at the end of the world, where DJ Akarui is laying down beats and conducting a rave in which all transformations are possible. Silverman’s extraordinary play is a unique theatrical event of explosive imagination, riveting energy, and penetrating insights. |
| 7:30 pm Apr 23rd | Theatre Production: "Akarui" by Jennifer Silverman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Mark Hunter. April 16, 17, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m., April 25 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. A witch with an appetite for scientific investigation and a split personality, experimenting on the body of a young (and very conscious) murder victim; the murder victim's psychotic killer, torn between violent impulses and a poetic conscience; a socially reclusive young tranny (changing from a female into a male); the impossibly sexy Brazilian musician who has taken an interest in the transboi; and a manta ray transforming into something human . . . all these characters convene at a warehouse at the end of the world, where DJ Akarui is laying down beats and conducting a rave in which all transformations are possible. Silverman’s extraordinary play is a unique theatrical event of explosive imagination, riveting energy, and penetrating insights. |
| 7:30 pm Apr 24th | Theatre Production: "Akarui" by Jennifer Silverman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Mark Hunter. April 16, 17, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m., April 25 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. A witch with an appetite for scientific investigation and a split personality, experimenting on the body of a young (and very conscious) murder victim; the murder victim's psychotic killer, torn between violent impulses and a poetic conscience; a socially reclusive young tranny (changing from a female into a male); the impossibly sexy Brazilian musician who has taken an interest in the transboi; and a manta ray transforming into something human . . . all these characters convene at a warehouse at the end of the world, where DJ Akarui is laying down beats and conducting a rave in which all transformations are possible. Silverman’s extraordinary play is a unique theatrical event of explosive imagination, riveting energy, and penetrating insights. |
| 2:00 pm Apr 25th | Theatre Production: "Akarui" by Jennifer Silverman Kimmel TheatreDirected by Mark Hunter. April 16, 17, 23, 24 at 7:30 p.m., April 25 at 2 p.m. Box Office: 895-4293. A witch with an appetite for scientific investigation and a split personality, experimenting on the body of a young (and very conscious) murder victim; the murder victim's psychotic killer, torn between violent impulses and a poetic conscience; a socially reclusive young tranny (changing from a female into a male); the impossibly sexy Brazilian musician who has taken an interest in the transboi; and a manta ray transforming into something human . . . all these characters convene at a warehouse at the end of the world, where DJ Akarui is laying down beats and conducting a rave in which all transformations are possible. Silverman’s extraordinary play is a unique theatrical event of explosive imagination, riveting energy, and penetrating insights. |