Arts & Performance

New York Times best selling novelist Kristin Hannah's paperback release of The Nightingale.

  Read more about New York Times Best-selling Novelist Kristin Hannah Visits Excelsior

After the Chilly Open, check out the original music of Orono artist and former Prince engineer Steve Noonan. 

Noonan will perform with a full band of accomplished TC musicians at Wayzata Brew Works on Feb. 11 after the Chilly Open on Wayzata Bay. Locally owned KISA Boutique will have a pop-up shop (Valentine's Day gifts and more) plus a henna artist will be on site to create amazing designs.  Read more about Steve Noonan: Orono Artist & Former Prince Engineer

From
April showers through May flowers to June weddings, springtime is the season of
love. MCS offers a bouquet of romantic blooms, including renaissance madrigals,
English and American folksongs, traditional ballads, Broadway favorites, and
modern classics by Eric Whitacre, Carole King, James Taylor and more. It’s a
concert for everyone who has ever been (or wanted to be) in love. Read more about "Springtime is Love" - presented by Minnetonka Choral Society

Written by Gabriel Greene & Alex Levy and directed by Jack Reuler

Featuring an All-Star cast including Don Shelby, Thomas W. Jones II, Ansa Akyea, Mark Sieve, and Christopher Rivas

This 18-character 9-scene thriller uses baseball to examine flawed US immigration policies, racial politics, America’s obsession with celebrity, and the collision of personal ethics with massive entertainment and media dollars. Read more about Safe at Home

Inspired by the works of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera), playwright Caridad Svich has created a poetic, romantic adventure of love ignited, denied, rekindled, rejected, and renewed; of love pragmatic and impossible, temporal and eternal; and ultimately of love transforming the human experience. Read more about CORAZÓN ETERNO (ALWAYS IN MY HEART)

Join us for a special performance of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, our 2017 Competition One Act Play on Thursday, February 2nd at 7:00 pm, followed by a talk back with the Director, cast and crew.  

Winner of the 2011 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, Newsweek called it "Extraordinary...a cross-fire of life and death energies that create a fierce and moving human drama."  Read more about Minnetonka Theatre presents The Normal Heart

Get ready for a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance that’s sure to be unlike anything the Twin Cities has ever seen! Set on Raspberry Island in downtown St. Paul, One Voice Mixed Chorus presents a topsy-turvy, gender-bending musical adventure for the whole family, featuring a lesbian pirate king and her swarthy crew of sailors arriving by speedboat, an uproarious appearance from the Major General’s “daughters,” and more! Soloists showcase One Voice singers along with guest artists from among the Twin Cities’ best musical theater actors. Read more about The Pirates of Penzance

One Voice returns to the Ordway for Well-Versed, a celebration of LGBTQ youth and an evening of choral music, strings and poetry with New York’s hottest string quartet, Well-Strung. Inspired by the poetry of local LGBTQ youth, Well-Versed also features the premiere of a three-movement composition for One Voice and Well-Strung sponsored by the American Composer’s Forum with text by poetry slam champion, Sierra DeMulder, and music by composer George Maurer. Read more about Well-Versed

One Voice Mixed Chorus kicks off their 2017 season on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend with Out of the Shadows, a concert honoring the work of African-American artists and activists. The concert also features the world premiere of One Voice’s largest commission ever, The Man Behind the Dream, a new choral work by composer Steve Milloy and Twin Cities-based librettist Vanessa German. This commission honors the life and work of gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, a mentor to Dr. Read more about Out of the Shadows