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With a goal of celebrating the Twin Cities' robust professional theater scene, and particularly, The Ivey Award Show, Solve has been tapped to elevate awareness and interest in the local theater community for 2015.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will welcome THE ILLUSIONISTS - WITNESS THE IMPOSSIBLE, the world's best-selling touring magic show, this week, March 24-29 as part of a 20-city U.

Circus Juventas, the largest youth performing arts circus school in North America, presents their 21st Summer Spectacular this year from July 31 through August 16.

A fast, fun, flirtatious farce that takes place in the French Riviera is perfectly suited to take audiences away from it all in the Twin Cities out to the Old Log Theater for a little spring break.

Playwright Anne Washburn describes the inspiration and her thoughts behind the play that will open at the Guthrie Theater March 31, 2015, in this Q&A.

BOEING BOEING is the perfect screwball comedy.

The Old Log Theatre presents the Tony Award nominated DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS- The Musical with a cast of 18, featuring Peter Moore, Eric Morris, Kaylyn Forkey, James Michael Detmar, Jen Burleigh-Bentz and Aylssa Seifert.

Local theatre company Gadfly Theatre Productions to showcase Vanda's Vile Affections.

Centering on the lives of four strippers, and propelled by the poetry and athleticism of live pole dancing, PUSSY VALLEY is a profound exploration of the African American, white, gay, straight, young, and old denizens of a strip club in contemporary rural Mississippi.

Park Square continues its inaugural two-stage season next month with Sharr White's psychological thriller, THE OTHER PLACE.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will continue the popular Broadway Songbook series April 17-18 with Broadway Songbook: Rock & Roll on Broadway.

The Old Log Theatre will present the Tony Award nominated DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS- The Musical with a cast of 18, featuring Peter Moore, Eric Morris, Kaylyn Forkey, James Michael Detmar, Jen Burleigh-Bentz and Aylssa Seifert.

Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company (MJTC) has announced the opening of a new work by Jack Canfora, Jericho.

The Playwrights' Center presents two public readings of Core Writer Kathryn Walat's 'Romeo & Naomi Ramirez,' April 6 and 7 at 7 p.

Midway through its first season producing on two stages, Park Square Theatre shows no sign of slowing down with its 2015-2016 theatre season.

The Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical Annie is coming to Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre March 31- April 5, 2015 as part of the 2014-2015 Thrivent Financial Broadway on Hennepin season.

Crowd pleasing BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is reimagined in this production of the 20-year-old musical tale as old as time.

This April, Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts will welcome audiences to its new home in the St.

I first saw the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical fairy tale mash up INTO THE WOODS four years ago, and have seen it several times since then, including the recent star-studded movie.

Park Square continues its 40th season this month with Steven Dietz's wistful comedy, SHOOTING STAR.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning, worldwide, smash hit Broadway musical, returns to Minneapolis as part of the 2014-2015 Thrivent Financial Broadway on Hennepin season.

The Guthrie Theater today announced that its outgoing Director Joe Dowling, the longest tenured artistic director in Guthrie history, will appear for an In Conversation moderated by New York Post theater columnist Michael Riedel on Tuesday, April 21 at 7:30 p.

Tonight, March 7, Theatre Pro Rata opens The Woodsman by Steven Fechter at the Nimbus Theater in Minneapolis.

The Illusion Theater's 40th Anniversary Season continues with a powerful play based on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall, starring one of the Twin Cities' most venerable actors, James Craven.

Based on Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Children's Theatre Company (CTC) will present Greg Banks' adaptation of Huck Finn, now through April 4, 2015.