Theater List

• Blue Water Theatre Company
• Brave New Workshop
  Brave New Workshop
  The Brave New Workshop Comedy Theatre , located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been writing, performing and producing live sketch comedy and improvisation performances for 50 years – longer than any other theatre in the nation...
  
  
• Bryant-Lake Bowl
  Bryant-Lake Bowl
  Bryant-Lake Bowl, locally nicknamed BLB, is a bowling alley, restaurant, bar, and 85-seat theatre in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The theatre is a venue for cabaret and wide variety of other stage productions...
  
  
• Chanhassen Dinner Theatres
• Children's Theatre Company
  Children's Theatre Company
  The Children's Theatre Company is a regional theatre established in 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota specializing in plays for families and young audiences and the recipient of a 2003 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre...
  
  
• Commonweal Theatre Company
  Commonweal Theatre Company
  The Commonweal Theatre Company is a professional theatre company in Lanesboro, Minnesota . Established in 1989 by Eric Bunge, Scott Olson and Scott Putman, the company's season runs April to December and comprises six plays chosen from among the world's finest classic, contemporary, and emerging...
  
  
• Emigrant Theater
• Fitzgerald Theater
  Fitzgerald Theater
  The Fitzgerald Theater is the oldest existing stage venue in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the home of American Public Media's A Prairie Home Companion. It was one of many theaters built by the Shubert Theatre Corporation, and was initially named the Sam S. Shubert Theater...
  
  
• Frank Theatre
• Gremlin Theatre
  Gremlin Theatre
  Gremlin Theatre is a small, non-profit, professional theatre company based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Gremlin primarily performs actor-centered plays in the classic American style of realism, seeking, as their mission statement reads, "to provide artistically brilliant, accessible, and enjoyable...
  
  
• Guthrie Theater
  Guthrie Theater
  The Guthrie Theater is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the result of the desire of Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea, and Peter Zeisler to create a resident acting company that would produce and perform the classics in...
  
  
• Hardcover Theater
• History Theatre
• In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
  In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
  In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre is a puppet company from Minneapolis, Minnesota. HOBT began in 1973 as Powderhorn Puppet Theatre, named for a neighborhood park and lake in Minneapolis, and changed their name in 1979...
  
  
• InterAct Theatre Company
• Illusion Theater
• Joking Apart Theater
  Joking Apart Theater
  Joking Apart Theater is a small theater company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The name of the company is taken from the title of the play, Joking Apart by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. While Joking Apart has performed several of Ayckbourne's plays, the company is not solely dedicated to...
  
  
• Jungle Theater
• Loring Playhouse
• Live Action Set
  Live Action Set
  Live Action Set is a Minneapolis-based physical theater performance company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's artistic mission is to create visually poetic, wildly imaginative, and accessible performance experiences that harness the indefinable power of the human spirit...
  
  
• Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts
• Minneapolis Theatre Garage
• Minnesota Dance Theatre
  Minnesota Dance Theatre
  The Minnesota Dance Theatre dance company and school in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded by Loyce Houlton in 1962 as the Contemporary Dance Playhouse. Lise Houlton succeeded her mother as artistic director in 1995. Each holiday season MDT presents the ballet Loyce Houlton's Nutcracker Fantasy...
  
  
• Minnesota Fringe Festival
  Minnesota Fringe Festival
  The Minnesota Fringe Festival is a performing arts festival held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, every summer, usually during the first two weeks in August. The eleven-day event, which features performing artists of many genres and disciplines, is one of many Fringe Festivals in North...
  
  
• Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company
• Mixed Blood Theatre
• Mounds Theatre
• Mu Performing Arts
  Mu Performing Arts
  Mu Performing Arts is a Minneapolis based theater group formed in 1992 by Rick Shiomi, Dong-il Lee, Diane Espaldon, and Martha Johnson. It is composed of Theater Mu, which features stage performances and Mu Daiko, a taiko drumming ensemble...
  
  
• Nautilus Music-Theater
• Off-Leash
• Old Log Theater
  Old Log Theater
  The Old Log Theater is the oldest professional theater in the state of Minnesota. It is sometimes cited as the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States, although other much older theaters such as the 200-year-old Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia would seem to...
  
  
• Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
  Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
  Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is located in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota and hosts a variety of performing arts, such as touring Broadway musicals, orchestra, opera, and cultural performers. It serves as a home to several local arts organizations, including the Minnesota Opera, The Saint...
  
  
• Pangea World Theater
• Pantages Theatre
  Pantages Theatre (Minneapolis)
  The Pantages Theatre is a historic theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The original building was a Beaux-Arts style twelve-story complex on Hennepin Avenue, designed by Kees & Colburn and operated by Alexander Pantages, a Greek immigrant who opened 500 theatres.The building was reduced...
  
  
• Park Square Theatre
• Penumbra Theatre Company
  Penumbra Theatre Company
  The Penumbra Theatre Company, an African-American theatre in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was founded by Lou Bellamy in 1976. The theater has been recognized for its artistic quality and its role in launching the careers of playwrights including two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson...
  
  
• Red Eye Theater
• Sandbox Theatre
  Sandbox Theatre
  Sandbox Theatre is an experimental theater company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ryan Hill, Lisa Moreira, Andrew Lawrence Schiff and Heather Stone formed the company in 2005 after working together in shows for 15 Head Theatre Lab, a Minneapolis experimental theatre company which closed the same...
  
  
• Skewed Visions
  Skewed Visions
  Skewed Visions is an arts company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota which produces site-specific performances and other multimedia works. Formed in 1996 by the artists Charles Campbell, Gülgün Kayim and Sean Kelley-Pegg, the group produces site-specific works that have sometimes been seen as...
  
  
• The Southern Theater
  The Southern Theater
  The Southern Theater is located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built in 1910 as a cultural center and legitimate theater for the burgeoning Scandinavian community centered around Cedar Avenue , the Southern has had a rich and colorful past prior to re-establishing itself as a center for...
  
  
• Stages Theatre Company
• Starting Gate Productions
  Starting Gate Productions
  Starting Gate Productions is a small professional theater company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Starting Gate performs mainly contemporary classic plays, mostly by American authors, though they make occasional forays into classical texts...
  
  
• State Theatre (Minneapolis)
• SteppingStone Theatre
• Ten Thousand Things
• The Chameleon Theatre Circle
• The Historic Orpheum Theatre
  The Historic Orpheum Theatre
  The Historic Orpheum Theatre is a theater in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is one of four restored theaters on Hennepin Avenue, along with the Pantages Theatre, the State Theatre and the Shubert Theatre....
  
  
• The Playwrights' Center
  The Playwrights' Center
  The Playwrights' Center is a theater organization established in 1971 in Minneapolis, Minnesota with the aim of furthering the careers of both new and established individuals in the field. Five playwrights formed the organization in the hopes of providing/obtaining support for new play development...
  
  
• The Southern Theater
  The Southern Theater
  The Southern Theater is located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built in 1910 as a cultural center and legitimate theater for the burgeoning Scandinavian community centered around Cedar Avenue , the Southern has had a rich and colorful past prior to re-establishing itself as a center for...
  
  
• Theatre de la Jeune Lune
  Theatre de la Jeune Lune
  The Theatre de la Jeune Lune was a celebrated theater company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company, in operation from 1978 to 2008, was known for its visually rich, highly physical style of theatre, derived from clown, mime, dance and opera.-History:...
  
  
• Theatre L'homme Dieu
• Theater Latte Da
• Top Hat Theatre
• Torch Theater
• Urban Samurai Productions
• Varsity Theater
• Walking Shadow Theatre Company
  Walking Shadow Theatre Company
  Walking Shadow Theatre Company is a Minneapolis-based professional non-profit theatre company which was founded in 2004 by John Heimbuch, Amy Rummenie and David Pisa with the following aims: to develop the talents of its artists, to nurture audience commitment to the arts, to facilitate dialogue...
  
  
• Workhouse Theatre Company
  Workhouse Theatre Company
  Workhouse Theatre Company is the only independent theatre company residing and producing in north Minneapolis. Based in the Camden neighborhoods of Minneapolis, WTC was established by Artistic Director Jeff Redman in 2004, under the name Camden Civic Theatre...
  
  
• Rarig Center, Stoll Thrust Theatre
• Rarig Center, Whiting Proscenium Theatre
• Yellow Tree Theatre
• Youth Performance Company