Category Archives: Past Event

Ending True

Dates: May 18-20 at 7:00 PM, and May 21 at 2:00 PM
Tickets: $20 ($16 for Students/Teachers/Seniors/Veterans). Pay What You Want on Thu, May 18.
Age Recommendation: Ages 16+
Duration: 90 minutes, including one intermission

Mask Policy: Masks are optional for this event. This policy is subject to change pursuant to the guidelines of the CDC and MN Department of Health.

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Applause Community Theatre proudly presents
Ending True, by James Lundy
Directed by Chad Snyder
Laura Tyndall is at the end of her rope. As her parents depart, can she keep the stories they’ve told—and one still untold? “Ending True” affirms the redeeming power of stories to define and guide us: the factual and fictional, the inherited and those we create for ourselves.

Plus: Come Dance by James Lundy and Olaf Elander
Directed by Chad Snyder
College friends Mark and Mimi always kept it dryly intellectual. But at their thirty-year reunion, will they rehydrate? Perhaps with a lemon twist? Do people change? Will Mark follow his head, or his heart? Is Mimi living an illusion? What magic is this, pulling one cork right through another?

Full Schedule
Thursday, May 18 at 7:00 PM (Pay What You Want)
Friday-Saturday, May 19-20 at 7:00 PM ($20, or $16 for students/teachers/seniors/veterans)
Sunday, May 21 at 2:00 PM ($20, or $16 for students/teachers/seniors/veterans)

Wake Up to Spring

Date: Mon, May 8, 2023 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Central Time
Tickets: Pay What You Wish (scroll down to register/pay)
Location: In person at Dreamland Arts
Ages: Ages 18+

Table Salt Productions presents
Wake Up to Spring
An evening of introductory improvisation

All levels welcome. No previous improvisation experience necessary.

Mask Policy: Masks are optional for this event.

We’ve been hibernating for months. Time to wake up and get our blood pumping! Let’s come together and have a fun, supportive, cross-pollinating evening of improvisation. This 90-minute IN PERSON workshop will use improv techniques to help us connect with one another in easy, celebratory ways! In improv we say, “Explore and heighten!” It’s time we gave that a try. Please join Jim Robinson and Dreamland Arts for this pay-what-you-wish introductory improv event. You can welcome Spring AND join us at Dreamland Arts. Sounds perfect!

This session is part of a series with Jim Robinson on Improvisation and Mental Health.

Jim Robinson has a dual career in improvisation and psychology. He’s an alumnus of the Brave New Workshop, the Off-Beat Comedy Club onboard the Disney Magic, and is co-founder of Table Salt Productions, a local theater company dedicated to producing original works in the Twin Cities. Jim has also taught psychology at St. Catherine University and at the University of St. Thomas. He hails from Riverside, California.

This Is How We Got Here

Dates: April 19 – May 7, 2023, Wed-Sat @ 7:30 pm, Sun @2:00 pm
Tickets: Pay What You Can ($35 suggested, per ticket)
Age Recommendation: Play deals with teen suicide, parental discretion is advised.
Duration: ~90 minutes, no intermission, plus 20 minute post-show talkback

Mask Policy: Masks are recommended.

UPDATE 05-06-2023:

  • The shows on Sat, May 6 at 7:30 pm and Sun, May 7 at 2:00 pm are SOLD OUT, and we have several people on the WAIT LIST. We are therefore not taking any more inquiries for tickets. Thank you!

New Native Theatre presents
This Is How We Got Here
by Keith Barker (Metis)
2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama Finalist
Directed by Rhiana Yazzie (Dine’)

A year following the suicide of their teen, a family still grapples with the ways their lives have been irrevocably changed by devastating loss. Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, This is How We Got Here explores the confusing and transformative process of grieving.

*This production contains sensitive subject matter about suicide & grief. Post-show conversations follow every performance.

Featuring
Thomas Draskovic (Hunkphapa Lakota / Wahpe Khute Dakota)
JaLisa McKee (Ho-Chunk)
Genevieve Lane (Lakota / Ojibwe)
Mistatim (Cree)

Schedule
April 19, 20, 21, 22 (Wed-Sat) @ 7:30 pm
April 23 (Sun) @ 2:00 pm
April 26, 27, 28, 29 (Wed-Sat) @ 7:30 pm
April 30 (Sun) @ 2:00 pm
May 3, 4, 5, 6 (Wed-Sat) @ 7:30 pm
May 7 (Sun) @ 2:00 pm


Fidgety Fairy Tales – The Mental Health Musicals

Date: Saturday, April 1, 2023
Times: Four performances, at 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM & 6:00 PM
Age Recommendation: All ages
Duration: 30 minutes
Cost: Free! Reservations highly recommended.

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Mask Policy: The producer of this event encourages attendees to wear a mask, but masks are not required.

Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health
presents

Fidgety Fairy Tales – The Mental Health Musicals
With gentle humor and great music, Fidgety Fairy Tales re-imagines familiar fairy tales to raise awareness about mental health. This performance includes:

Three Little Pigs (a musical about anxiety)

Music and Lyrics by Marya Hart
Written and Directed by Matt Jenson

Out Like a Lamb

Date: Mon, Mar 27, 2023 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Central Time
Tickets: Pay What You Wish (scroll down to register/pay)
Location: In person at Dreamland Arts
Ages: Ages 18+

Table Salt Productions presents
Out Like a Lamb
An evening of introductory improvisation

All levels welcome. No previous improvisation experience necessary.

Mask Policy: Masks are optional for this event.

The lion has roared and now it’s time to follow the lamb into Spring. Let’s get together and have a fun, supportive WARM evening of improvisation. This 90-minute IN PERSON workshop will use improv techniques to help us connect with one another in easy, celebratory ways! In improv we say, “let go of old stories!” It’s time we gave that a try. Please join Jim Robinson and Dreamland Arts for this pay-what-you-wish introductory improv event. You can stay warm AND join us at Dreamland Arts. Sounds perfect!

This session is part of a series with Jim Robinson on Improvisation and Mental Health.

Jim Robinson has a dual career in improvisation and psychology. He’s an alumnus of the Brave New Workshop, the Off-Beat Comedy Club onboard the Disney Magic, and is co-founder of Table Salt Productions, a local theater company dedicated to producing original works in the Twin Cities. Jim has also taught psychology at St. Catherine University and at the University of St. Thomas. He hails from Riverside, California.