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April 1 - 5

The following format is followed for brevity:

title; Playwright
brief description
COMPANY NAME; (genre)

time; location CODE; box office number; price range; ASL(when applicable)

April 1 -
If you give a Mouse a Cookie based on the book by Joffe Numeroff
How does a curious kid find himself figure skating on scrub brushes, wrestling boa constrictors and climbing mountains? Find out, in this musical tale, how an innocent little mouse in coveralls with a backpack shows up one day, and a milk-and-cookie snack goes from mishap to calamity to catastrophe faster than the twitch of a whicker!
The Children's Theatre Company (children)
7:00 pm; CTC; 612-874-0400; $12 - $34
 
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Becca and Howard Corbett have everything a family could want until the accidental death of their four-year-old son leaves the couple drifting perilously apart.
The Jungle Theatre (drama)
7:30 pm; JGL; 612-822-7063; $21 - $36
 
The Six-Ring Circus
This is an improvisational experience featuring student improv teams from the Brave New Institute.
Brave New Workshop (satire)
7:30 pm; BNW; 612-332-6620; $1
 

Respect
This show is a musical journey of women. A joyful jaunt down memory lane told through more than 60 top-forty hits. It will have you dancing in the ailes.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

The Wonder Bread Years by Pat Hazell
A hilarious 90 minutes of genuinely funny observations of our collective youth: Toughskin jeans, Jiffy Pop popcorn, Kool-aid stands and more! This one-man 'Show & Tell' promises to "feed the belly as well as the spirit." It’s an infectiously charming, fast-paced, hilarious production that takes you back to a simpler time in life - when candy was currency and the most dangerous kid in school carried a "switch-comb." THE WONDER BREAD YEARS offers you a chance to return to your childhood; it's an evening of pure escapism, where you have permission to think and act like a kid. Green army men rule, Etch-A Sketch is king and things that don't go your way are a "gyp." This classic material makes you crave the taste of space food sticks and revisit the faint scar from a lawn dart injury.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

42nd Street by Michael Stewert and Mark Bramble
A musical extravaganza that's polished to sparkle, 42nd Street is the stuff Broadway dreams are made of that's a hit from tip to tap. It zings and soars with a crackerjack toe-tapping cast, colorful sets and costumes, and a fast-moving fairy tale about a chorus girl who comes to the Big Apple to break into show business and is unexpectedly thrust into the starring role on opening night. This high-stepping salute to the allure of Broadway is guaranteed to put a smile on your face, a song on your lips and a spring in your step.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

April 2 - 3
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Becca and Howard Corbett have everything a family could want until the accidental death of their four-year-old son leaves the couple drifting perilously apart.
The Jungle Theatre (drama)
7:30 pm; JGL; 612-822-7063; $21 - $36
 
Blues in The Night by Sheldon Epps, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer
A compilation of twenty-six hot and torchy blues songs frame and comment on three women's relationships with one snake of a guy. The interweaving stories are defined through music alone - and what music! The evening's music is raunchily forthright, infectiously good-humored and always classically blues.
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (musical)
8:00 pm; ORD; 651-224-4222; $44 - $65
 

Respect
This show is a musical journey of women. A joyful jaunt down memory lane told through more than 60 top-forty hits. It will have you dancing in the ailes.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

The Wonder Bread Years by Pat Hazell
A hilarious 90 minutes of genuinely funny observations of our collective youth: Toughskin jeans, Jiffy Pop popcorn, Kool-aid stands and more! This one-man 'Show & Tell' promises to "feed the belly as well as the spirit." It’s an infectiously charming, fast-paced, hilarious production that takes you back to a simpler time in life - when candy was currency and the most dangerous kid in school carried a "switch-comb." THE WONDER BREAD YEARS offers you a chance to return to your childhood; it's an evening of pure escapism, where you have permission to think and act like a kid. Green army men rule, Etch-A Sketch is king and things that don't go your way are a "gyp." This classic material makes you crave the taste of space food sticks and revisit the faint scar from a lawn dart injury.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

42nd Street by Michael Stewert and Mark Bramble
A musical extravaganza that's polished to sparkle, 42nd Street is the stuff Broadway dreams are made of that's a hit from tip to tap. It zings and soars with a crackerjack toe-tapping cast, colorful sets and costumes, and a fast-moving fairy tale about a chorus girl who comes to the Big Apple to break into show business and is unexpectedly thrust into the starring role on opening night. This high-stepping salute to the allure of Broadway is guaranteed to put a smile on your face, a song on your lips and a spring in your step.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

 
April 3 -
Puntila & His Hired Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht
The play unfolds the adventures of Puntila and his chauffeur Matti, while skewering issues of class with a broad swipe of humor. A "vivacious" daughter unhappily engaged to an Attache (who is marrying her to pay off his debts), four bawdy working women who are just looking for a good time, the delicate facades of the upper-class, and a "hired man" who sees through it all, combine to make this a bawdy, raucous "folk play " that deliciously pokes at the gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Frank Theatre (drama)
8:00 pm; 27th St. East and Longfellow Ave. S; 612-724-3760; $17 - $21
 
If you give a Mouse a Cookie based on the book by Joffe Numeroff
How does a curious kid find himself figure skating on scrub brushes, wrestling boa constrictors and climbing mountains? Find out, in this musical tale, how an innocent little mouse in coveralls with a backpack shows up one day, and a milk-and-cookie snack goes from mishap to calamity to catastrophe faster than the twitch of a whicker!
The Children's Theatre Company (children)
7:00 pm; CTC; 612-874-0400; $12 - $34
 
Always a Mystery
You could be solving a mystery while you eat your dinner. This is a series of ongoing dinner theatres in which the audience gets a chance to solve the mystery as the action takes place around your dining area. There are several titles to choose from. Just click here to see them.
The Mystery Cafe (comedy/drama)
7:30 pm; MYS; 763-566-2583; $20 - $38.34
 
Church Basement Ladies by Janet Martin and Suzann Nelson
A celebration of the church basement kitchen and the women who work there. From the elderly matriarch of the kitchen to the young bride-to-be learning the proper order of things, we see the church ladies handle a record breaking Christmas dinner, the funeral of a dear friend, a Hawaiian Easter Fund Raiser, and, of course, a steaming hot July wedding. They stave off potential disasters, share and debate recipes, instruct the young, and keep the Pastor on due course while thoroughly enjoying, (and tolerating) each other as the true "steel magnolias" of the church.
Plymouth Playhouse (comedy)
8:00 pm; PLY; 763-553-1600; $16 - $30
 
The Brave New Workshop at 50: Old Enough to Know Better
This perforamance will feature the best, most beloved sketches and songs from the Brave New Workshop's 50-year catalog of comedy, along with backstage stories and hilarious "mockumentary" style tidbits. As usual they'll hit all the topics Workshop regulars are used to seeing: politics, religion, sex and relationships, pop culture, and more!
Brave New Workshop (satire)
8:00 pm; BNW; 612-332-6620; $23 - $25
 
Incorruptible by Micheal Hollinger
A fast paced comedy about an order of monks who hatch an outrageous plan to save their monastery from financial ruin. This new comedy, featuring Steve Shaffer and Tom Stolz as two of the monks, offers a gentle rib-poking look at how we humans twist our convictions to rationalize our bad behavior. While outrageously funny, the play also offers a warm, comforting message about faith lost and regained.
Old Log Theater (comedy)
8:00 pm; OLT; 952-474-5951; $18 - $26
 
What Dark/Falling Into Light by Shapiro & Smith Dance
The theme is inspired by the Holocaust and the marginalization of people based on creed or ethnicity. The breathtaking work reacts to and investigates our response to the atrocity, and delves into the emotions kindled by our exploration of "why"? Two other pieces will explore absurd relationships and a quartet about love and loss.
The Southern Theater, (dance)
8:00 pm; SOT; 612-340-1725; $12 - $28
 
The Lady With All the Answers by David Rambo
1975: Eppie Lederer has a big problem. Where can she turn for advice? Ann Landers, of course. But Eppie is Ann.... Filled with bon bons, bon mots, bubble baths and Chanel No. 5, this warm and engaging one-woman show brings us an Ann Landers we've never seen before – a "lady with all the answers" coping with a problem that doesn't have an easy solution.
History Theatre (drama)
7:30 pm; GHT; 651-292-4323; $20 - $25
 
Angika by Katha Dance Theatre
Anga in Sanskrit language means body, mind and soul. IN light of Jazz music and North Indian classical music, Katha dance will use its unique power of improvisation and storytelling and create Angika that defines space and tells the story of its people!
Ritz Theater Foundation (movement theatre)
8:00 pm; RTZ; 612-333-2172; $10 - $22
 
April 4 -
If you give a Mouse a Cookie based on the book by Joffe Numeroff
How does a curious kid find himself figure skating on scrub brushes, wrestling boa constrictors and climbing mountains? Find out, in this musical tale, how an innocent little mouse in coveralls with a backpack shows up one day, and a milk-and-cookie snack goes from mishap to calamity to catastrophe faster than the twitch of a whicker!
The Children's Theatre Company (children)
7:30 pm; CTC; 612-874-0400; $12 - $34
 
Church Basement Ladies by Janet Martin and Suzann Nelson
A celebration of the church basement kitchen and the women who work there. From the elderly matriarch of the kitchen to the young bride-to-be learning the proper order of things, we see the church ladies handle a record breaking Christmas dinner, the funeral of a dear friend, a Hawaiian Easter Fund Raiser, and, of course, a steaming hot July wedding. They stave off potential disasters, share and debate recipes, instruct the young, and keep the Pastor on due course while thoroughly enjoying, (and tolerating) each other as the true "steel magnolias" of the church.
Plymouth Playhouse (comedy)
8:00 pm; PLY; 763-553-1600; $16 - $30
 

The Brave New Workshop at 50: Old Enough to Know Better
This perforamance will feature the best, most beloved sketches and songs from the Brave New Workshop's 50-year catalog of comedy, along with backstage stories and hilarious "mockumentary" style tidbits. As usual they'll hit all the topics Workshop regulars are used to seeing: politics, religion, sex and relationships, pop culture, and more!
Brave New Workshop (satire)
8:00 pm; BNW; 612-332-6620; $23 - $25

Late Night Improv
The mainstage cast of the Brave New Workshop (along with alumni and special guests) creating totally spontaneous, hilarious improvisation! It's what made the BNW famous!
Brave New Workshop (satire)
10:00 pm; BNW; 612-332-6620; $1

 

Respect
This show is a musical journey of women. A joyful jaunt down memory lane told through more than 60 top-forty hits. It will have you dancing in the ailes.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

The Wonder Bread Years by Pat Hazell
A hilarious 90 minutes of genuinely funny observations of our collective youth: Toughskin jeans, Jiffy Pop popcorn, Kool-aid stands and more! This one-man 'Show & Tell' promises to "feed the belly as well as the spirit." It’s an infectiously charming, fast-paced, hilarious production that takes you back to a simpler time in life - when candy was currency and the most dangerous kid in school carried a "switch-comb." THE WONDER BREAD YEARS offers you a chance to return to your childhood; it's an evening of pure escapism, where you have permission to think and act like a kid. Green army men rule, Etch-A Sketch is king and things that don't go your way are a "gyp." This classic material makes you crave the taste of space food sticks and revisit the faint scar from a lawn dart injury.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

42nd Street by Michael Stewert and Mark Bramble
A musical extravaganza that's polished to sparkle, 42nd Street is the stuff Broadway dreams are made of that's a hit from tip to tap. It zings and soars with a crackerjack toe-tapping cast, colorful sets and costumes, and a fast-moving fairy tale about a chorus girl who comes to the Big Apple to break into show business and is unexpectedly thrust into the starring role on opening night. This high-stepping salute to the allure of Broadway is guaranteed to put a smile on your face, a song on your lips and a spring in your step.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

 
The Lady With All the Answers by David Rambo
1975: Eppie Lederer has a big problem. Where can she turn for advice? Ann Landers, of course. But Eppie is Ann.... Filled with bon bons, bon mots, bubble baths and Chanel No. 5, this warm and engaging one-woman show brings us an Ann Landers we've never seen before – a "lady with all the answers" coping with a problem that doesn't have an easy solution.
History Theatre (drama)
7:30 pm; GHT; 651-292-4323; $20 - $25
 
April 4 - 5
Puntila & His Hired Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht
The play unfolds the adventures of Puntila and his chauffeur Matti, while skewering issues of class with a broad swipe of humor. A "vivacious" daughter unhappily engaged to an Attache (who is marrying her to pay off his debts), four bawdy working women who are just looking for a good time, the delicate facades of the upper-class, and a "hired man" who sees through it all, combine to make this a bawdy, raucous "folk play " that deliciously pokes at the gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Frank Theatre (drama)
8:00 pm; 27th St. East and Longfellow Ave. S; 612-724-3760; $17 - $21
 
Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor
After years abroad, Sabrina Fairchild returns home, where her father chauffeurs for the wealthy Larablees, to find out if she's till in love David, the playboy of the family. But her search for her own feelings runs headlong into the well-laid plans of the older son Linus, a cynical tycoon who runs the family business.
Theatre in the Round Players (drama)
8:00 pm; TRP; 612-333-3010; $13 - $15
 
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Becca and Howard Corbett have everything a family could want until the accidental death of their four-year-old son leaves the couple drifting perilously apart.
The Jungle Theatre (drama)
8:00 pm; JGL; 612-822-7063; $21 - $36
 
Upshaw Sings 20th Century Classics by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Dawn Upshaw brings together five of the great composers of the 20th century in a program inspired by cabaret, folksong, jazz and poetry. Schoenberg’s Cabaret Songs are bound to be a highlight: one of his early jobs was playing piano in a cabaret and these pieces have plenty of attitude. They suit Upshaw superbly, as do Berio’s touching arrangements of folksongs, each one a little masterpiece.
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (music)
8:00 pm; ORD; 651-291-1144; $44 - $65
 
Blues in The Night by Sheldon Epps, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer
A compilation of twenty-six hot and torchy blues songs frame and comment on three women's relationships with one snake of a guy. The interweaving stories are defined through music alone - and what music! The evening's music is raunchily forthright, infectiously good-humored and always classically blues.
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (musical)
8:00 pm; ORD; 651-224-4222; $44 - $65
 
Always a Mystery
You could be solving a mystery while you eat your dinner. This is a series of ongoing dinner theatres in which the audience gets a chance to solve the mystery as the action takes place around your dining area. There are several titles to choose from. Just click here to see them.
The Mystery Cafe (comedy/drama)
7:30 pm; MYS; 763-566-2583; $20 - $38.34
 
Incorruptible by Micheal Hollinger
A fast paced comedy about an order of monks who hatch an outrageous plan to save their monastery from financial ruin. This new comedy, featuring Steve Shaffer and Tom Stolz as two of the monks, offers a gentle rib-poking look at how we humans twist our convictions to rationalize our bad behavior. While outrageously funny, the play also offers a warm, comforting message about faith lost and regained.
Old Log Theater (comedy)
8:00 pm; OLT; 952-474-5951; $18 - $26
 
James Sewel Ballet
Stunningly inventive ballet performed in the beautiful O'Shaugnnessy Auditorium.
James Sewel Ballet (dance)
8:00 pm; CSC; 612-436-0344; $10 - $38
 
What Dark/Falling Into Light by Shapiro & Smith Dance
The theme is inspired by the Holocaust and the marginalization of people based on creed or ethnicity. The breathtaking work reacts to and investigates our response to the atrocity, and delves into the emotions kindled by our exploration of "why"? Two other pieces will explore absurd relationships and a quartet about love and loss.
The Southern Theater, (dance)
8:00 pm; SOT; 612-340-1725; $12 - $28
 
Angika by Katha Dance Theatre
Anga in Sanskrit language means body, mind and soul. IN light of Jazz music and North Indian classical music, Katha dance will use its unique power of improvisation and storytelling and create Angika that defines space and tells the story of its people!
Ritz Theater Foundation (movement theatre)
8:00 pm; RTZ; 612-333-2172; $10 - $22
 
April 5 -
If you give a Mouse a Cookie based on the book by Joffe Numeroff
How does a curious kid find himself figure skating on scrub brushes, wrestling boa constrictors and climbing mountains? Find out, in this musical tale, how an innocent little mouse in coveralls with a backpack shows up one day, and a milk-and-cookie snack goes from mishap to calamity to catastrophe faster than the twitch of a whicker!
The Children's Theatre Company (children)
11:00 and 2:00 pm; CTC; 612-874-0400; $12 - $34
 
Water Music by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Oceans, rivers and, yes, even washing machines have been the inspiration for composers to write great orchestral music. Conductor Marlene Pauley and The SPCO dive into music by Handel, Saint-Saens, Vivaldi and Roth among others. This is part of the SPCO’s Family Series.
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (music)
10:30 am; ORD; 651-291-1144; $44 - $65
 
Church Basement Ladies by Janet Martin and Suzann Nelson
A celebration of the church basement kitchen and the women who work there. From the elderly matriarch of the kitchen to the young bride-to-be learning the proper order of things, we see the church ladies handle a record breaking Christmas dinner, the funeral of a dear friend, a Hawaiian Easter Fund Raiser, and, of course, a steaming hot July wedding. They stave off potential disasters, share and debate recipes, instruct the young, and keep the Pastor on due course while thoroughly enjoying, (and tolerating) each other as the true "steel magnolias" of the church.
Plymouth Playhouse (comedy)
4:00 and 8:00 pm; PLY; 763-553-1600; $16 - $30
 

The Brave New Workshop at 50: Old Enough to Know Better
This perforamance will feature the best, most beloved sketches and songs from the Brave New Workshop's 50-year catalog of comedy, along with backstage stories and hilarious "mockumentary" style tidbits. As usual they'll hit all the topics Workshop regulars are used to seeing: politics, religion, sex and relationships, pop culture, and more!
Brave New Workshop (satire)
7:00 and 10:00 pm; BNW; 612-332-6620; $23 - $25

Late Night Improv
The mainstage cast of the Brave New Workshop (along with alumni and special guests) creating totally spontaneous, hilarious improvisation! It's what made the BNW famous!
Brave New Workshop (satire)
12:00 am; BNW; 612-332-6620; $1

 

Respect
This show is a musical journey of women. A joyful jaunt down memory lane told through more than 60 top-forty hits. It will have you dancing in the ailes.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
11:00 and 6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

The Wonder Bread Years by Pat Hazell
A hilarious 90 minutes of genuinely funny observations of our collective youth: Toughskin jeans, Jiffy Pop popcorn, Kool-aid stands and more! This one-man 'Show & Tell' promises to "feed the belly as well as the spirit." It’s an infectiously charming, fast-paced, hilarious production that takes you back to a simpler time in life - when candy was currency and the most dangerous kid in school carried a "switch-comb." THE WONDER BREAD YEARS offers you a chance to return to your childhood; it's an evening of pure escapism, where you have permission to think and act like a kid. Green army men rule, Etch-A Sketch is king and things that don't go your way are a "gyp." This classic material makes you crave the taste of space food sticks and revisit the faint scar from a lawn dart injury.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
11:00 and 6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

42nd Street by Michael Stewert and Mark Bramble
A musical extravaganza that's polished to sparkle, 42nd Street is the stuff Broadway dreams are made of that's a hit from tip to tap. It zings and soars with a crackerjack toe-tapping cast, colorful sets and costumes, and a fast-moving fairy tale about a chorus girl who comes to the Big Apple to break into show business and is unexpectedly thrust into the starring role on opening night. This high-stepping salute to the allure of Broadway is guaranteed to put a smile on your face, a song on your lips and a spring in your step.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $26-$59

 
The Lady With All the Answers by David Rambo
1975: Eppie Lederer has a big problem. Where can she turn for advice? Ann Landers, of course. But Eppie is Ann.... Filled with bon bons, bon mots, bubble baths and Chanel No. 5, this warm and engaging one-woman show brings us an Ann Landers we've never seen before – a "lady with all the answers" coping with a problem that doesn't have an easy solution.
History Theatre (drama)
2:00 and 7:30 pm; GHT; 651-292-4323; $20 - $25

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