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Hennepin Theatre Trust will launch Energy: Made Here, presented by Andersen Windows, with a free, public celebration in the ART Gallery at Le Meridien Chambers Minneapolis today, Dec. 19 from 5 to 8 p.m. This will be the ninth round of Made Here window displays in WeDo the West Downtown Minneapolis Cultural District.

Hennepin Theatre Trust will launch Energy: Made Here, presented by Andersen Windows, with a free, public celebration in the ART Gallery at Le Meridien Chambers Minneapolis on Tuesday, Dec. 19 from 5 to 8 p.m. This will be the ninth round of Made Here window displays in WeDo the West Downtown Minneapolis Cultural District.

In 2011, Mixed Blood Theatre launched Radical Hospitality, a no-cost admission program created to remove the financial barrier for audience participation in the theatre. While Radical Hospitality is certainly the theatre's most widely-recognized access initiative, founding Artistic Director, Jack Reuler, the staff and Board have been redefining what it means to be radically hospitable for the entirety of Mixed Blood's existence.

Christopher Boone, a young man on the autism spectrum, sets out to investigate the bizarre death of a neighbor's dog, setting into motion a series of events that expose far greater mysteries.

In the cultural collision of a restaurant kitchen, Chef George, trying to stay sober, spends his shifts yelling at trash-talking Guatemalan line cooks, a wet-behind-the-ears American busboy, and a quiet East African dishwasher. But the heat turns up when an immigration agent arrives.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) is proud to present our newest Theatre for the Very Young production of Swimmy, based on the Caldecott Honor book by Leo Lionni.

Mixed Blood Theatre today announced its 2017-18 Season in which comedy, drama, satire, and musicals invoke a spirit of generosity and self-determination, celebrating the power of theater. Its reconfigurable space will take on three unique orientations, putting on display Mixed Blood's core value to be predictably unpredictable.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) is proud to present our newest Theatre for the Very Young production of Swimmy, based on the Caldecott Honor book by Leo Lionni.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) presents Shrek The Musical, directed by Artistic Director Sandy Boren-Barrett. Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation Film, Shrek The Musical, is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs, and the beloved characters you know and love to life on our stage!

Stages Theatre Company (STC) presents Shrek The Musical, directed by Artistic Director Sandy Boren-Barrett. Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation Film, Shrek The Musical, is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs, and the beloved characters you know and love to life on our stage!

Stages Theatre Company (STC) presents Stone Soup, directed by Melanie Salmon-Peterson. This original musical adaptation based on the classic folktale, is written by Jeannine Coulombe, with music composed by Broadway's Michael Gruber.

Mixed Blood Theatre is proud to announce the final show in its 2016/2017 Season, Vietgone. In Vietgone, award winning pioneer of "geek theater" Qui Nguyen brilliantly chronicles the love story of his parents meeting in an Arkansas refugee center after fleeing Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975. The playwright's journey to understand his parents' immigrant love story in the wake of war and loss is marked by wit, unrepeatable curses, and a comic book sensibility that ultimately packs an unexpected emotional punch. It's is a buddy story, a proto-feminist tale, an all-American romance, and a motorcycle road trip adventure that 40 years later revisits how we think about the heroes and victims of the Vietnam War.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) presents The Velveteen Rabbit, directed by Stages Theatre Company Artistic Director Sandy Boren Barrett, and Escalate Dance Company Artistic Director Ann Marie Omeish.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) presents The Velveteen Rabbit, directed by Stages Theatre Company Artistic Director Sandy Boren Barrett, and Escalate Dance Company Artistic Director Ann Marie Omeish.

Inspired by the works of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love in the Time of Cholera), playwright Caridad Svich has created a poetic, romantic adventure of love ignited, denied, rekindled, rejected, and renewed; of love pragmatic and impossible, temporal and eternal; and ultimately of love transforming the human experience.

Sexy and hilarious, VIETGONE's mash-up of comic book aesthetics, martial arts, and hip hop, brilliantly chronicles the love story of acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen's parents meeting in an Arkansas relocation camp after fleeing Vietnam during the fall of Saigon.

On the eve of a family wedding Leela, a young woman on the autism spectrum, sneaks off with her cousin on a joyride though Orange County. ORANGE chronicles Leela's adventures over the course of one ill planned night full of detours, thrilling heights, mythic encounters, a nine-year-old villain, and the search for a perfect orange. A soulful and hilarious exploration of youth, fearlessness, family, and difference, ORANGE navigates the cusp between childhood and adulthood.

In a remarkable gift of generosity, Magic Tree House author, Mary Pope Osborne partnered with Stages Theatre Company and Random House Children's Books to make a donation of over 1,500 books! Each and every student from partner schools across the metro area that attended yesterday's 12:30 pm performance of Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans, received their very own Magic Tree House book.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) presents Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans, directed by Jamil Jude.

Stages Theatre Company (STC) presents Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans, directed by Jamil Jude.