2025 Shows

Neon Breeze

By: The House in the Woods

Venue: 2025 The Southern Theatre

Description: A comedic, cyberpunk noir following a night between two thieves and lifelong friends as they navigate existence in an underground metropolis. The play explores the power of shared language within... Go to this Show's Page

Nixon Shows Gleason a U.F.O.

By: Jared Reise

Venue: 2025 Strike Theater

Description: Based on the urban legend, President Richard Nixon takes his famous friend Jackie Gleason out to show him some pretty out-of-this-world stuff. It will be a night that Gleason won't... Go to this Show's Page

One Who is Home

By: Little Lamp Theatre Company

Venue: 2025 Open Eye Theatre

Description: One Who is Home focuses on the isolation of young adulthood. It follows a queer relationship and tells a story about love, loneliness, and hope. An intimate, raw, and relatable... Go to this Show's Page

OPERA PUNKS

By: Kelly Shuda

Venue: 2025 The Southern Theatre

Description: OPERA PUNKS is a wild web of improvised musical scenes. All dialogue is sung. Every scene in a different genre. Spanning blues, pop, opera, metal, country, salsa, and more. This... Go to this Show's Page

Our Zombie Town

By: Pat O'Brien

Venue: 2025 Mixed Blood

Description: The citizens of Grover's Corners fight off a zombie invasion. The folksy sentiment of Thornton Wilder collides with the bloody mayhem of George Romero. By the team that did the... Go to this Show's Page

Pineapple Kryptonite

By: Pineapple Kryptonite

Venue: 2025 Strike Theater

Description: An exploration of cause-and-effect chains that link stupid obsessions to milestone moments. With jokes! Go to this Show's Page

Ping Prov

By: Ryan Klima

Venue: 2025 The Southern Theatre

Description: A kaleidoscopic showcase of innovative Twin Cities Improv! Each show will feature three groups performing a unique style. Then in the second half, the teams combine to play Ping Prov—a... Go to this Show's Page

Ranger Jim

By: Dogdog-Beardog

Venue: 2025 Rarig Kilburn Theatre

Description: Jim worked 16 seasons as a Park Ranger in three National Parks. He takes you to different places than most National Park stories. Comedy, death and magic in our National... Go to this Show's Page

Rat Mass

By: The Church of Ratology

Venue: 2025 Rarig Stoll Thrust Theatre

Description: Are you feeling lost? Lonely? Out of your mind? There is hope for you at Rat Mass! Through comedy and audience participation your very soul will become indoctrinated into a... Go to this Show's Page

Rec League

By: Mike Fotis Productions

Venue: 2025 Strike Theater

Description: Summer Softball Season Bronze Level 3 is about to start. Gary has joined a new team. F%ck that dude. They're terrible at softball but amazing at holding grudges. Go to this Show's Page

Romeo and Juliet: Lottery Style

By: Katherine Warmka

Venue: 2025 Theatre in the Round

Description: A barebones retelling of a Shakespearean classic. Romeo & Juliet: Lottery Style is full of unknown possibilities. 5 actors. 5 roles. Different every night. Not even the actors will know... Go to this Show's Page

Salt

By: Griffy LaPlante

Venue: 2025 Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Description: In this original play, a near-future U.S. government has just reinstated the military draft. Five young anti-war organizers meet to discuss what to do. Go to this Show's Page

Shrieking Harpies Presents: Period Piece

By: The Shrieking Harpies

Venue: 2025 Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Description: Join the Shrieking Harpies as they create a fully improvised musical narrative for each show in a different time period. You'll laugh, cry, and sing yourself all the way home! Go to this Show's Page

simone weil and the (insufferable) existentialist breakfast club

By: burnt ghost collective

Venue: 2025 Theatre in the Round

Description: philosopher simone weil never reached the popularity (or notoriety) of her existentialist contemporaries. she did however scare the jesus out of them and go on to shoot fascists in spain.... Go to this Show's Page

Someone Always Pays

By: angela olson

Venue: 2025 Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Description: This isn’t a neat story of justice served. It’s about what we carry long after the sirens fade. About how sometimes we’re not stronger—we’re just tired. The price may shock...but... Go to this Show's Page

Songs Without Words (or, The Mendelssohn Play)

By: Jennifer Vosters

Venue: 2025 Rarig Nolte Xperimental Theatre

Description: This award-winning solo performance grapples gender, genius, and family in the extraordinary true story of sibling composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, two very different artists sharing one artistic soul. Go to this Show's Page

Tapeze

By: Twin Cities Trapeze Center

Venue: 2025 Theatre in the Round

Description: What happens when you blend tap shoes and a trapeze? This fusion turns the stage into a dynamic playground where rhythm meets flight. A high flying symphony of movement, music... Go to this Show's Page

That Which Is Green

By: Michael Rogers

Venue: 2025 The Southern Theatre

Description: Two friends reunite hiking to a great and holy tree deep in the woods, but arrive to find it withering. As they confront its looming demise, they must face what... Go to this Show's Page