2026 Shows

Maniac

By: Todd Sullivan

Venue: Rarig Nolte Xperimental Theatre

Description: A solo clown show loosely inspired by history's most intelligent serial killer — blending masks, movement, lo-fi origami, and absurd logic into a lunatic tribunal of comedy, tenderness, and chaos.... Go to this Show's Page

Maxxeapolis Goes to Hell

By: Maxxeapolis

Venue: Mixed Blood

Description: Rest In Peace, Maxxeapolis, whose untimely deaths have landed them in Hell right before their performance at Fringe. Join them for an hour of sketch comedy where Satan himself will... Go to this Show's Page

Minnesota is the Shire, or Fair & Back Again

By: Seán McArdle / Hero Props

Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Description: A storytelling show about my love for MN + Tolkien’s Legendarium; exploring his concepts of Estel & Eucatastrophe, similarities btw Minnesota & the Shire, & how we kinda just lived... Go to this Show's Page

More Better Stories

By: American School of Storytelling

Venue: American School of Storytelling

Description: Storytellers Jon Carlson, Vianna Isbister, Bernadine Joselyn, Hank Roubicek - tell three times, and Erin Ferdinand, Kory May, Christopher Nelson, Laura Packer, Anne Wiborg do "one off's" with stories for... Go to this Show's Page

Muskie

By: New Endeavors

Venue: Mixed Blood

Description: It's Fishing Opener on Lake Mille Lacs, but some of the locals have started disappearing. Could it be the work of the terrifying, mythical Muskie? Find out in this Minnesota-based... Go to this Show's Page

Noise

By: MN Moving Arts Dance Ensemble

Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Description: NOISE explores the sounds that shape our lives—both heard and unheard. Through movement, the work examines the emotional, mental, and physical noise that surrounds us every day: expectations, distractions, memories,... Go to this Show's Page

Not Bad for a Punk Band

By: Deft Pictures

Venue: Theatre in the Round

Description: A local musician's overambition cost him the band and a shot at happiness. Years later, at his drummer's wedding, he has a chance to make things right with his former... Go to this Show's Page

Pistachio's Playhouse

By: Samuel Karie

Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Description: When the host of the children’s show Pistachio’s Playhouse experiences a sudden tragedy, she has to try and keep the Playhouse from closing while maintaining her sanity in front of... Go to this Show's Page

Quadrilogy: A Sabathani Benefit Game Show Extravaganza!

By: The House in the Woods

Venue: Theatre in the Round

Description: A game show in three rounds with audience participation. Answer questions, build Lego, have fun, win prizes! A different theme every night. Artist proceeds go to benefit the Sabathani Community... Go to this Show's Page

Ready Player, Too

By: Rainsview Creative

Venue: Open Eye Theatre

Description: What do Candyland, Soccer, Therapy, and Tomb Raider have in common? Lily has won them all. So why does she feel like such a loser? Go to this Show's Page

ROAD TRIP!

By: CHRISDAVISDOESSTUFF

Venue: Bryant Lake Bowl

Description: Too expensive to go on a road trip? Then join two improv comedians as they take a ROAD TRIP without ever leaving the theater! You don’t need to pitch in... Go to this Show's Page

Scab for Hire

By: Budding Heads

Venue: The Southern Theater

Description: A man unwittingly crosses a picket-line, befriends an opossum, and is forced to choose between his job and his friend. The aftermath of his actions are discussed nearly a century... Go to this Show's Page

Silent Movie!

By: The Improv Movement Project

Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Description: What happens when you get a group of physical improvisers to make a movie – but without the sets, lights, costumes, props, crew, dialogue . . . or movie. A... Go to this Show's Page

Sisters on Stage: An elder millennial’s exploration of Shakespeare’s sisters

By: Deanne McDonald / The Traveling Players

Venue: Mixed Blood

Description: One woman performs scenes from Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies exploring his deep understanding of the closest, longest and most frustrating relationship of your life: your relationship with your siblings. Go to this Show's Page

Small Epiphanies

By: Good & Plenty Productions

Venue: Open Eye Theatre

Description: Spanning from the 1960's to the present, this humorous, poignant, one-woman show delves into Midwest identity, family, U.S. History, political awakening & an accordion - proving one is never too... Go to this Show's Page

Small Minded

By: Tyler West

Venue: The Southern Theater

Description: Is being a dwarf clown REALLY half the size, but double the fun? Or is Tyler West just Small Minded? Either way, this show features juggling, magic, Shakespeare, story-telling, and... Go to this Show's Page

Soap Prov: Show of 10,000 Secrets

By: Jex Arzayus

Venue: Rarig Nolte Xperimental Theatre

Description: An improvised soap opera inspired by audience suggestions. Our cast will create a show filled with your favorite soap opera tropes: steamy affairs, family betrayals, love triangles, seduction, and so... Go to this Show's Page

So Bright, the Night

By: Hey Rube!

Venue: The Southern Theater

Description: So Bright the Night is a hard-boiled historical drama about the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930's. A woman boards a train in hopes to rescue her husband from deportation or... Go to this Show's Page