Our Seasons
Explore our current and past seasons. Click on the titles to learn more about each production!
2020-2021
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Clara and the Shadow Catchers: The Spirit of Christmas by Jacquline Bircher
Radio Podcast Play | December 13, 2020 A short audio play that follows a group of Minnesota ghost hunters with a strong following on social media as they get called in on an urgent spectral emergency across the pond on Christmas Eve. While the timing's not ideal, their client is more than willing to pay the holiday surcharge to have her home exorcised ahead of a fancy Christmas celebration the next day, so the crew packs their bags and heads to an old manor house outside London. There, they encounter Scrooge's own Ghost of Christmas Future, and must figure out a way to outsmart and expel one of the great Dickensian spirits without falling into any traps themselves Presented as part of Blight Christmas, a horror holiday Podcast play with Oncoming Productions. |
The Retelling by Alayna Jacqueline with Music by Simon Sperl
Virtual | October 30 & 31, 2020
Three strangers are held captive in a basement forced to play a role in The Father's twisted game. Tensions rise when they learn one of them will be sacrificed for a new victim to take their place. The strangers must decide whether to follow the rules, play their own game, or leave things to chance. Only two can survive. Who will be left behind in The Retelling
Presented as part of Season 9 of the Twin Cities Horror Festival!
Virtual | October 30 & 31, 2020
Three strangers are held captive in a basement forced to play a role in The Father's twisted game. Tensions rise when they learn one of them will be sacrificed for a new victim to take their place. The strangers must decide whether to follow the rules, play their own game, or leave things to chance. Only two can survive. Who will be left behind in The Retelling
Presented as part of Season 9 of the Twin Cities Horror Festival!
2018–2019
Another Revolution by Jacqueline Bircher
The Crane Theater | May 17 – 26, 2019
Kat and Henry, two graduate students from opposing scientific disciplines, are forced to share a lab at Columbia University in 1968. Amid interpersonal differences, a campus devolving into political chaos, and the uncertainty and turmoil of the outside world, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit.
The Crane Theater | May 17 – 26, 2019
Kat and Henry, two graduate students from opposing scientific disciplines, are forced to share a lab at Columbia University in 1968. Amid interpersonal differences, a campus devolving into political chaos, and the uncertainty and turmoil of the outside world, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit.
Fresh Roots Series: A Festival of New Works
The Crane Theater | November 2018, January & March 2019
We are proud to announce the Fresh Roots Series. We have selected 3 locally sourced playwrights and will provide a workshop and a free public reading of their newest play for the community.
The Crane Theater | November 2018, January & March 2019
We are proud to announce the Fresh Roots Series. We have selected 3 locally sourced playwrights and will provide a workshop and a free public reading of their newest play for the community.
2017–2018
My Barking Dog by Eric Coble
The Crane Theater | April 20 - 29, 2018 MINNESOTA PREMIER
Melinda and Toby, two recluses of an apartment in some urban American sprawl, meet a coyote who mysteriously visits their fire escape one night. This wild encounter leads them on a poetic journey of self-realization, with their newly discovered animal instincts leading the way. My Barking Dog is a blend of magical realism and lyrical storytelling that explores how our everyday lives have been disconnected from our roots. Eric Coble examines what happens when nature decides to challenge our inorganic life-styles.
The Crane Theater | April 20 - 29, 2018 MINNESOTA PREMIER
Melinda and Toby, two recluses of an apartment in some urban American sprawl, meet a coyote who mysteriously visits their fire escape one night. This wild encounter leads them on a poetic journey of self-realization, with their newly discovered animal instincts leading the way. My Barking Dog is a blend of magical realism and lyrical storytelling that explores how our everyday lives have been disconnected from our roots. Eric Coble examines what happens when nature decides to challenge our inorganic life-styles.
2016–2017
On the Exhale by Martín Zimmerman
Rarig Center | August 4 - 12, 2017 REGIONAL PREMIER | Fringe Festival 2017
When a senseless act of violence changes her life forever, a liberal college professor finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very weapon used to perpetrate the crime—and to the irresistible feeling of power that comes from holding life and death in her hands. Peering down the barrel of a uniquely American crisis, she begins to suspect that when it comes to gun violence, we’re all part of the problem.
Rarig Center | August 4 - 12, 2017 REGIONAL PREMIER | Fringe Festival 2017
When a senseless act of violence changes her life forever, a liberal college professor finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very weapon used to perpetrate the crime—and to the irresistible feeling of power that comes from holding life and death in her hands. Peering down the barrel of a uniquely American crisis, she begins to suspect that when it comes to gun violence, we’re all part of the problem.
Public Exposure by Keith Hovis
The Maker's Space | December 9 - 18, 2016 WORLD PREMIER
Coworkers and friends, Ford was fired from Anders and Hoff while Jen was not. Now Ford is living a real bacchanal as he spirals down with liquor, drugs, and partying. But Jen has a better idea: start a new company that uses shame as its enterprise. But when a younger, more recent hire shows up to party, what happens when morals and money collide for the need to survive? In Keith Hovis’ new play, he examines our capacity to hurt one another and the justifications we provide for destruction in the digital age. This is the story of the next American company.
The Maker's Space | December 9 - 18, 2016 WORLD PREMIER
Coworkers and friends, Ford was fired from Anders and Hoff while Jen was not. Now Ford is living a real bacchanal as he spirals down with liquor, drugs, and partying. But Jen has a better idea: start a new company that uses shame as its enterprise. But when a younger, more recent hire shows up to party, what happens when morals and money collide for the need to survive? In Keith Hovis’ new play, he examines our capacity to hurt one another and the justifications we provide for destruction in the digital age. This is the story of the next American company.
2015–2016
Ghosts & Zombies by Henrik Ibsen & Gustav Tegby, trans. Chad Eric Bermgan
Phoenix Theatre | Stage Reading
On this surface this appears to be Ibsen’s iconic play Ghosts, with Mrs. Alving celebrating the return of her son Osvald and getting ready to open an orphanage in her late husband’s honor. However when family secrets cannot stay hidden any longer, Tegby throws an an ax and an exorcism into his necromantic twist on the Norwegian classic. An adaptation that makes ones skeletons in the closet a little more real – and bloodthirsty.
Co-produced with Phoenix Theatre as part of their Flights of Fright Festival.
Phoenix Theatre | Stage Reading
On this surface this appears to be Ibsen’s iconic play Ghosts, with Mrs. Alving celebrating the return of her son Osvald and getting ready to open an orphanage in her late husband’s honor. However when family secrets cannot stay hidden any longer, Tegby throws an an ax and an exorcism into his necromantic twist on the Norwegian classic. An adaptation that makes ones skeletons in the closet a little more real – and bloodthirsty.
Co-produced with Phoenix Theatre as part of their Flights of Fright Festival.
Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
Phoenix Theatre | January 1 - 10, 2016
A son’s discovery of his father’s journal reveals forgotten moments of the 1960’s, where two young architects are on the edge of fame struggle with a vital commission. Three actors play both children and their parents in this generational mystery. Greenberg’s famed script presents an interplay between past, present, and the reasoning behind choices that take a lifetime to understand.
Produced with Arts' Nest Fledgling Program.
Phoenix Theatre | January 1 - 10, 2016
A son’s discovery of his father’s journal reveals forgotten moments of the 1960’s, where two young architects are on the edge of fame struggle with a vital commission. Three actors play both children and their parents in this generational mystery. Greenberg’s famed script presents an interplay between past, present, and the reasoning behind choices that take a lifetime to understand.
Produced with Arts' Nest Fledgling Program.
2014–2015
Gray Duck by Amy Seham
Minnesota Theater Garage | Fringe Festival 2014
Five recent college graduates wrestle with love, work, and the meaning of life in the millennium. With humor and sympathy, the play follows a young idealist, a disillusioned composer, a radical artist, a computer nerd, and a battered wife, as each character confronts his or her own “life lie.” Their responses might surprise the old Norwegian playwright – but then again, we think he’d understand.
Minnesota Theater Garage | Fringe Festival 2014
Five recent college graduates wrestle with love, work, and the meaning of life in the millennium. With humor and sympathy, the play follows a young idealist, a disillusioned composer, a radical artist, a computer nerd, and a battered wife, as each character confronts his or her own “life lie.” Their responses might surprise the old Norwegian playwright – but then again, we think he’d understand.
