December theatre calendar
Bridgeland is rich with theatre, but with a community calendar that features free or low-cost events, theatrical productions usually get short shrift, due to the average $10–$20 ticket cost. To fill the gap, we have put together the following list of current productions in the coverage area or by area companies. We’ll try to update it from month to month, as space allows. (Did we miss any? Send an email to editor@readthebridge.info.)
Cedar-Riverside People’s Center Theater
Cold Enough to Freeze Your Shadow to the Ground.
Dec. 6–16
612-333-6816
www.peoples-center.org
This month, we welcome the return of the People’s Center Theater, 425 20th Ave. S. The community theatre space reopens, after renovations to its neighboring medical center, on Dec. 6, with a specially expanded version of Heidi Arneson’s play Cold Enough to Freeze Your Shadow to the Ground. Set in 1864, the play tells the tale of Scandinavian immigrants weathering a Minnesota blizzard with traditional tales, music and holiday customs.
Founded in 1920, the People’s Center Theater space has long served an ever-evolving Cedar-Riverside immigrant community born originally out of similar 19th-century Scandinavians.
Cold Enough runs Dec. 6–9 and 13–16 (see website for times and ticket prices). In 2008, Arneson will stay on as resident performance artist, along with Magicword Theater as resident theatre group.
Bedlam Theatre
Lost Love, through Dec. 16
1501 S. Sixth St.
www.bedlamtheatre.org
612-341-1038
The Guthrie
Michael Pennington’s Sweet William, Dec. 11–22; A Christmas Carol, through Dec 29; I and I: The Sense of Self, through Dec. 2; Winter in Paris: The Guthrie Cabaret, Dec. 3.
818 S. Second St.
www.guthrietheater.org
612-377-2224
Mixed Blood
Interact Center for Performing & Visual Arts’ Between the Worlds, through Dec. 21.
1501 S. Fourth St.
www.mixedblood.com
612-338-6131
Patrick’s Cabaret
Various events
3010 Minnehaha Ave. S.
www.patrickscabaret.org
612-724-6273
The Southern
Hit It! Festival, Dec. 6–9 and 12–16; various events
1420 Washington Ave. S.
www.southerntheater.org
612-340-1725
Theatre in the Round
My Three Angels, through Dec. 16.
245 Cedar Ave.
www.theatreintheround.org
612-333-3010
University of Minnesota Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
Explosion of a Memory/Description of a Picture, Dec. 7–9;
Inspecting Carol, through Dec. 17; various dance events.
Various locations
www.theatre.umn.edu
612.625.6699
Youth Performance Company
Babes in Toyland, through Dec. 18.
1900 Nicollet Ave.
Howard Conn Fine Arts Center
612-623-9080
last revised: December 17, 2007