Upcoming Theater

Rimini Protokoll, <span class="wac_title">Call Cutta in a Box</span> Performing Arts Series
Out There 22
January 7 - 31, 2010

As is fitting for a series that has always brought provocative and unexpected theatrical experiences to the Twin Cities, Out There celebrates its 22nd season by presenting four ensembles whose breathtaking combinations of text, media, visual theater, sound, and physical drama are helping define the...  read more »
Rimini Protokoll, <span class="wac_title">Call Cutta in a Box</span> Interactive Performance
Rimini Protokoll
Call Cutta in a Box: An Intercontinental Phone Play
January 8 - 31, 2010
Location to be announced

“Wildly entrancing, and in that way theatre at its best. One of the most puzzling, affecting performances I have attended.” —Politiken, Kopenhagen

A phone is ringing in an empty office in Minneapolis . . . it’s for you. Answer it and begin your...  read more »
Radiohole, <span class="wac_title">Whatever, Heaven Allows</span> Theater/Performance (Walker Commission/World Premiere)
Radiohole
Whatever, Heaven Allows
Thursday, January 14, 2010   8:00 pm
McGuire Theater
Friday, January 15, 2010, 8:00 pm, Saturday, January 16, 2010, 8:00 pm
McGuire Theater

“[Radiohole] turns out effervescent, anarchic work . . . cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre.” —Time Out

Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole’s newest...  read more »
Roger Guenveur Smith Theater/Performance
Roger Guenveur Smith
The Watts Towers Project
Thursday, January 21, 2010   8:00 pm
McGuire Theater
Friday, January 22, 2010, 8:00 pm, Saturday, January 23, 2010, 8:00 pm
McGuire Theater

“Smith’s monologue has a freestyle bounce, like a series of vivid dreams over the course of a restless night.” —Variety

Obie Award–winning writer/director/actor Roger Guenveur Smith (Huey P. Newton,...  read more »
Hotel Modern, <span class="wac_title">The Great War</span> Theater/Performance
Hotel Modern
The Great War
Thursday, January 28, 2010   8:00 pm
McGuire Theater
Friday, January 29, 2010, 8:00 pm, Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8:00 pm
McGuire Theater

“An astonishingly inventive and unbearably touching production.” —BBC Radio

Rotterdam’s Hotel Modern creates fascinating performance works that fuse drama, visual art, object theater, puppetry, music, and film. The company uses household paraphernalia to construct scale models...  read more »
Spalding Gray Theater
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
Thursday, March 18, 2010   8:00 pm
McGuire Theater
Friday, March 19, 2010, 8:00 pm, Saturday, March 20, 2010, 8:00 pm
McGuire Theater

“A breathing portrait . . . you feel the deep, lonely ache of something precious lost. Thank Heaven that Stories Left to Tell reminds you that something precious remains as well. ” —New York Times

Celebrating the...  read more »