Now playing (online)!
Two of the best episodes from the golden age of radio, performed in the style of an old-time radio broadcast, including original announcements, commercials and sound effects!
THE MYSTERIOUS OLD RADIO LISTENING SOCIETY
Upcoming: Oct 19, Nov 16
Presented by Ghoulish Delights and Park Square Theatre
Direct to your living room through Zoom.
Coming soon!
THEATRE OF THE MACABRE
Oct 29-31, 2020
A three-night online variety series of ghoulish horror and fun-filled terror.
TEARS OF MOONS
Nov 19–22, 2020
A poetic tour-de-force chronicling America’s ongoing epidemic of violence against Black people.
Upcoming
Like theatres nationwide, Park Square has been deeply affected by the spread of COVID-19 and is having to make changes to the season previously announced. The good news is, Park Square fully intends to eventually present all of the plays that have been announced, the looming question is “when.”
Your safety is vital. Your Park Square team is taking steps to increase and implement safety precautions throughout the theatre, to ensure that when we do re-open our doors, we will create an experience as safe and risk-free as possible. We are monitoring the spread of cases, and moving in tandem with other Twin Cities arts organizations to work with the Governor’s office on the best time to reopen.
As time progresses, we will continue to reshape the season calendar as needed in advance of each scheduled production, staying flexible for 2021 and beyond. We ask for your patience and understanding, as we navigate these waters together. The dates listed below reflect the current best information about when plays will be taking place, but in these uncertain times, all plays and dates may be subject to change.
Even while remaining physically distant, Park Square is developing an exciting series of virtual offerings to provide entertainment and dialogue during these pandemic times. Sharing stories and celebrating our common humanity is more important now than ever and new online shows will be listed here as soon as they are announced. We hope you’ll join us!
Park Square Presents
BAD THINGS, GOOD WHISKEY
Postponed
Dates to be announced
By Shanan Custer and Carolyn Pool
Directed by Elena Giannetti
Featuring Music by Rhiannon Fiskradatz
Comedy on the Rocks
Boss Thrust Stage
World Premiere
From the creators of 2 Sugars, Room for Cream and Sometimes There’s Wine comes the final installment in their beverage-inspired trilogy. Shanan and Carolyn are back to bring you “scenes from life, stuff we think is funny” only this time the drink is whiskey, a spirit as strong as the women who drink it!
“All of the joy of a lively conversation between two close and very clever friends.” — Star Tribune
Park Square and the Ordway present
TRIANGLE
Postponed
Dates to be Announced
Music by Curtis Moore
Lyrics by Thomas Mizer
Book by Curtis Moore, Thomas Mizer and Joshua Scher
Directed by Rod Kaats
Contemporary Musical
Proscenium Stage
An original and compelling new musical full of mystery and romance, with songs by two of America’s hottest new musical theatre writers! Two parallel love stories separated by a hundred years are woven together by the thread of the 1917 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Hailed as “…a fulfilling and well-crafted musical theater experience with a deep and heart-stirring humanity,” by the San Francisco Examiner.
Park Square Presents
ROMEO AND JULIET
Postponed
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by David Mann
Classic
Boss Thrust Stage
A passionate youthful telling of Shakespeare’s greatest love story! The most renowned star-crossed lovers in history remind us that when you are in love, nothing else matters — not even life itself. Despite duels and disaster, one boy and one girl believe they can and must be together. Share this 90-minute adaptation with a young person in your life and remind them that love can still conquer all.
Park Square presents the Full Circle Theatre world premiere production of
FIRE IN THE NEW WORLD
May 28 – Jun 20, 2021
Written and Directed by R.A. Shiomi
Noir Mystery
Proscenium Stage
World Premiere
Sam Shikaze, hard boiled private eye, fights crime in Vancouver’s Japantown and beyond in the years after WWII. In this detective comedy, the beautiful Japanese American wife of an ambitious real estate developer goes missing, and Sam is on the case. Fire in the New World is smart and fun with a dash of social commentary and plenty of sly intrigue.
Park Square Presents
HOLMES AND WATSON
Postponed to
Jul 9 – Aug 15, 2021
Mystery
Proscenium Stage
By Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Michael Evan Haney
Sherlock Holmes is dead, or is he? Dr. Watson receives a telegram from a mental asylum: three patients are claiming to be Sherlock Holmes. Did the world’s greatest sleuth fake his own death? Who’s the real detective and who are the impostors? Tight, clever and full of suspense, this is Jeffrey Hatcher (Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders, Mr. Holmes) at his best.
Park Square and PRIME Productions present
THE REVOLUTIONISTS
Postponed to
Oct 1 – 24, 2021
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Shelli Place
Riotous Comedy
Proscenium Stage
Four women find themselves caught up in the French Revolution: an assassin, a spy, a playwright, and, of course, Marie Antoinette. They plot murder, find friendship (and do some good writing), in this irreverent, poignant, rebellious and comedic romp that considers how we go about changing the world.
Park Square presents
AIRNESS
Postponed
Dates to be announced
By Chelsea Marcantel
Air Guitar Comedy
Proscenium Stage
Where do five oddball rock fanatics go to express their inner shred genius? Dingy bars and cramped stages all across the nation vying for a place at the National Air Guitar Championship. Following them on their quest to achieve ‘airness’ on the long road to qualification, this righteous and smile-inducing comedy shows how community is forged in unexpected places.
Park Square Presents
MARIE AND ROSETTA
Postponed
Dates to be announced
Play with Music
Now on the intimate Boss Stage!
By George Brant
Directed by Wendy Knox
Bringing fierce guitar playing and swing to gospel music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe influenced rock musicians from Elvis to Jimi Hendrix and Ray Charles. The story begins in a funeral parlor in Mississippi, as Rosetta and her young protégé, Marie Knight, prepare for a tour that will establish them as a great musical duo. Hear renditions of spirituals like “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?” and “Sit Down,” to distinctly non-religious songs like “I Want a Tall Skinny Papa.”
Park Square presents
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
Postponed
Dates to be announced
By Agatha Christie
Adapted and Directed by Jeffrey Hatcher
Classic Mystery Reimagined
Proscenium Stage
World Premiere Adaptation
Hercule Poirot, that clever Belgian detective, returns in this edge-of-your-seat adaptation of Agatha Christie’s first novel, written and directed by favorite playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (Holmes and Watson, Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders). Lieutenant Hastings is a guest at Styles Court, an elegant Essex manor, when his hostess is found dead of poison. Her killer could be anyone: her much younger new husband, her ne’er-do-well stepson, or perhaps her female companion. Sift through the clues as Poirot and “his little grey cells” solve the case.
Tickets
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These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota.
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