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Guthrie Theater. The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The concept of the theater was born in 1959 in a series of discussions among Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler. Disenchanted with Broadway, they intended to form a ...
Brave New Workshop was founded in 1958 by Dudley Riggs, a fifth-generation circus aerialist who performed all over the globe. Riggs's parents were circus and vaudeville performers, and he regularly joked that he ran away from the circus to find a home. BNW was originally known as the “Instant Theatre Company.”.
Full name: Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium: Address: 84 Church Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455-0281: Location: Northrop Mall, University of Minnesota: Owner: Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota: Operator: University of Minnesota Tickets and Events: Capacity: 2,692 (2014–present) 4,847 (1929–2011) 168 (Best Buy Theater ...
The Southern Theater is located in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built in 1910 as a cultural center and legitimate theater for the burgeoning Scandinavian community centered on Cedar Avenue ("Snoose Boulevard"), the Southern has been re-established as a center for contemporary performing arts over the past quarter ...
The State Theatre is an historic theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It is one of four restored theatres in the Hennepin Theatre District. [1] It is one of four restored theaters on Hennepin Avenue, along with the Orpheum Theatre, [2] the Pantages Theatre, and the Shubert Theatre (now The Cowles Center). The theatre seats 2,181.
October 31, 1995. The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts (formerly the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center) is a performing arts center and flagship for dance in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Cowles Center was developed as an incubation project by Artspace Projects, Inc and includes the ...
Occupation (s) Improvisational comedian, theater owner. Years active. 1950s-1990s. Known for. Brave New Workshop. Dudley Riggs (January 18, 1932 – September 22, 2020) was an improvisational comedian who created the Instant Theater Company in New York, which later moved to Minneapolis to become the Brave New Workshop comedy troupe.
Orpheum Theatre is a theater located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is one of four restored theaters on Hennepin Avenue, along with the State Theatre, [2] the Pantages Theatre, and the Shubert Theatre (now The Cowles Center). The building opened on October 16, 1921, originally named the Hennepin Theater, its first performers included ...