Ordway News

Spelling Bee is the interactive musical comedy that chronicles the experience of six overachievers vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime.

The Ordway begins its 2011-2012 Target World Music and Dance Series by welcoming Chicago-based Luna Negra Dance Theater on October 25 at 7:30 p.m. A dance company that moves beyond cultural stereotypes and expectations, Luna Negra will perform three contemporary works by prominent Latino choreographers.

Penumbra Theatre Company and Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church announce a special musical tribute to Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, marking the 100th anniversary of her birth.

Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. 'Sing-a-long Sound of Music,' a screening of the classic Julie Andrews film musical in glorious, full-screen Technicolor - complete with subtitles so the audience can sing along - comes to the Ordway for three performances only on October 21 and 22.

Penumbra Theatre Company and Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church announce a special musical tribute to Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, marking the 100th anniversary of her birth.

SPELLING BEE is the hilarious interactive musical comedy that chronicles the experience of six adolescent overachievers vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award-winning creative team has crafted the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place on earth where they can both stand out and fit in. Featuring Latté Da favorite Tod Petersen as Vice Principal Douglas Panch.

Vox Lumiere, a performing group showcasing the next evolution of entertainment presents its spellbinding show, 'The Phantom of the Opera' at the Ordway on Sunday, October 30 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Target World Music and Dance Series.

The buzzworthy national tour of the Broadway musical 'Come Fly Away,' conceived, choreographed and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and by special arrangement with the Frank Sinatra Family and Frank Sinatra Enterprises, will be presented at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts from October 11-16.

Theater Latté Da launches its 2011-12 season with the Tony Award®-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Ordway Center's McKnight Theatre opening to the public tonight.

Magos Herrera, a Grammy Award nominee for best vocal jazz is a dazzlingly accomplished singer-songwriter known for her beguiling rhythmic scatting inflected with soulful Latin-Andalusian phrasings. She brings her signature vocals to the Ordway as a part of the Target World Music Series on Friday, October 28, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

Theater Latte Da begins their 2011-12 season of plays.

Theater Latte Da announced today a dynamic season of four productions that feature the wickedly funny musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Ordway Center's McKnight Theatre (October 6-30, 2011), the new holiday classic All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 at the Pantages Theatre (December 15-18, 2011), the regional premiere of Beautiful Thing at The Lab Theater (February 24 - March 18, 2012), and the passionate rock musical Spring Awakening produced in partnership with the University of Minnesota at the Rarig Center's Stoll Thrust Theatre (April 12 - May 6, 2012).

The Ordway begins its 2011-2012 Target World Music and Dance Series by welcoming Chicago-based Luna Negra Dance Theater on October 25 at 7:30 p.m. A dance company that moves beyond cultural stereotypes and expectations, Luna Negra will perform three contemporary works by prominent Latino choreographers.

Coming to the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, December 13th, 2011 through January 1st, 2012, Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold is making it's way to Saint Paul!

Theater Latté Da presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, October 6 - 30, 2011.

Robert Dubac's The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?, the one-man tour de force that tackles the babble of the sexes, will open Hennepin Theatre Trust's New Century Theatre in Downtown Minneapolis' City Center, Thursday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011.

Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. 'Sing-a-long Sound of Music,' a screening of the classic Julie Andrews film musical in glorious, full-screen Technicolor - complete with subtitles so the audience can sing along - comes to the Ordway for three performances only on October 21 and 22.

Penumbra Theatre Company and Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church announce a special musical tribute to Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, marking the 100th anniversary of her birth.

The buzzworthy national tour of the Broadway musical 'Come Fly Away,' conceived, choreographed and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and by special arrangement with the Frank Sinatra Family and Frank Sinatra Enterprises, will be presented at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts from October 11-16.

Park Square's 36th season opens with a perceptible crackle when the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY comes to its stage in September. Leah Cooper, in her Park Square debut, directs this gripping dark comedy that lit Broadway on fire in 2007.