Theater

"The Princess Bride: A Drinking Game" is a cross between this romantic comedy/fairy tale classic, a drinking game with friends, a live stage reading by some of the Twin Cities best actors, and a midnight showing of "Rocky Horror"! Classic movie, shaken, not stirred, and with a twist. Inconceivable!

The Princess Bride-A Drinking Game-Minnesota Cast!

Hosted and Narrated by Jill Bernard!

Buttercup/The Princess Bride-Amy Bouthilette
Wesley-Topher Pirkl
Inigo Montoya-Matt Saxe
Fezzik-Kevin Albertson
Vizzini, the Impressive Clergyman, Brute-Nick Decker
Prince Humperdinck-James Napoleon Stone
Count Rugen-Charles Hubbell
Mother, Booing Lady, Valerie, and The Queen-Katherine Mary Engel
The Kid, Albino, and Yellin-Matt Kelly

With Patrick O'Brien (Mr. Dewey from Saved by the Bell and Saved by the Bell LIVE at the BLB, Pleasantville, Forget Paris, Intolerable Cruelty, and Minnesota Fringe Festival hit Underneath the Lintel) as The Grandfather, The King, and Miracle Max!

Charles Hubbell was just seen on the stage of The Guthrie in "Charleys Aunt", and has performed around the Cities at The Gremlin-"The Homecoming", Walking Shadow-Dracula in "Drakul", and more. Matt Saxe has appeared in the films "Jarhead", "Pearl Harbor" and the CBS soap opera "The Bold and The Beautiful" and theatres around the Cities in, "Macbeth" with Theatre Coup D'etat, "Wash My Sin Away" with Theatre Terra Firma, and The Minnesota Fringe Festival.

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This is the first production of "A Drinking Game" anywhere in the U.S. outside of Los Angeles!

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The movie will NOT be shown. This is a staged reading of the classic script by an awesome cast. For those of you who have asked. :-)

You have a better idea for a date for Valentines Day? Inconceivable!

Friday February 3 at 9:30 pm (9:00 doors)

On May 19, 1992, a shot rang out on a Long Island door step that launched three made-for-tv movies, two porn careers, and made "Buttafuoco" a household name. Come celebrate the latest unsympathetic viewing by the Women in Crisis Film Series crew, "The Amy Fisher Story," starring Drew Barrymore. Break out your Zubaz, beepers, and Valtrex and don't forget to bring a scrunchy or two. Our panel of lively gays will mock the film in real time and you're invited to compete in the “Amy & Joey Costume Contest” for prize packages!

Saturday, February 4 at 10:00pm (doors at 9:30pm)

See the funniest sketches, short films and musical performances ever!!! From fiddlers and cloggers to toddlers and tiaras you won’t want to miss this special night where nothing is sacred.

Monday February 6 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

The Rabbit Show is a monthly cry of hope that serious but accessible dance doesn’t have to be expensive, hard to understand, self-important, or merely gymnastic. This one-hour cabaret-style showcase offers a wide variety of short dances by Third Rabbit Dance Ensemble and by guest artists representing the rich diversity of Twin Cities dance.

Wednesday February 8 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

Anna Vogelzang, "The Wisconsin troubadour has a penchant for playfulness when it comes to her music; however, when she gets serious, few craft a better folk song."
- The Huffington Post

“A series of YouTube videos paint Minneapolis’ Savannah Smith as a ukulele-slinging Jack Johnson disciple - but the seriousness Smith shows when performing her own songs nicely balances her jazz-informed cooing and displays a talent for lyrical density that raises her simple melodies”. -AV Club

Starring Jason Schommer, Tom Steffen, Jodie Maruska, Calvin Cato, and Ron Lamprecht as the Emcee! Stand up comics from Las Vegas, New York City, and Minneapolis take to the stage in this hilarious evening of stand up comedy.

Saturday February 11 at 10:00 pm (9:30 doors)

The 3rd Kind brings you kick-ass sketch comedy. It is commanded within the Declaration. “Close Encounters” with The 3rd Kind brings you the lethal combination of stand-up comedy, improv comedy and sketch comedy. Along with some of our favorite improvisers and stand-ups from Acme, HUGE, ComedySportz and Brave New Workshop, The 3rd Kind will set forth to abduct and deconstruct your sense of self. Your semblance of being should return to working order within an hour after our show. Kevin Albertson, Dave Christians, Ian Fishman, Heather Meyer, Sidney Oxborough, and Jen Scott compromise The 3rd Kind, directed by Joe Bozic. Communications commence at 3rdkindcomedy.com.
Mondays February 13, 20 and 27 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

Where independent filmmakers schmooze and make nice. For more info visit www.ifpmsp.org.

Wednesday February 15 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

Brain Game is a fully improvised, fully interactive panel-style game show featuring some of the Twin Cities' finest improvisers. Watch them match wits with each other, the audience, and the unforgiving clock!

Fridays February 10 and 17 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

When was the last time you squirmed at the thought of
something you’ve done and hoped no one would find out about it? When was the last time you heard a juicy story about adultery, gluttony, theft, and more things that should not have happened being told without a hint of guilt or shame? Or told with a side of irony or wry humor? It’s all fair game when Colleen Kruse and Loren Niemi share The Sh**ty Things We’ve Done.” On stage. With an audience.

Colleen Kruse is a comedian, radio personality, and a ferociously honest and funny chronicler of her life and times.

Loren Niemi, first and foremost, is a storyteller of philosophically nuanced and emotionally ambiguous tales.

T\Every Saturday night this February they come together at Bryant Lake Bowl to recreate their exploration of the “seven deadly sins” and a few minor ones with stories that first saw the light of the Bryant Lake Bowl stage in 1997. It proved so popular that Colleen offered it on an annual basis with Alex Cole while Loren was living in Chicago. Now Loren’s back and Colleen’s got him confessing the awful and the awfully funny “Sh**ty things We’ve Done.”

Saturdays February 4, 11, 18 and 25 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

Performance Art Therapy is taking the Twin Cities by storm! Created on the BLB stage in November 2011, it is evolving into the most dynamic, and funniest, treatment modality and helping profession since maybe Freud or Doctor Phil. You bring your deepest fears, your fondest hopes, and your thorniest problems to Jon on the BLB stage. He doesn't help you, but his characters do! Let the Professor of Negativity, Zen Master Zero, Philander T. Overman, Vic from Providence, and some surprise "guests" make an entirely new person out of you. And learn about the complex, often tormented childhoods of his characters as they reveal their own psychic traumas and triumphs as never before. A New, More Dynamic You II—Deeper In! It's a multiple-personality carnival of ha-ha healing!

Sundays February 12, 19, 26, March 4 and 11 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

The Bell Museum's Café Scientifique is a happy hour exchange of ideas about science, environment, and popular culture featuring experts from a variety of fields on diverse and often provocative topics. For more information visit www.bellmuseum.org

February topic: Cosmic Catastrophes: Apocalypse When?
Our existence on Earth is at once robust and fragile. Life manages to survive under a wide range of conditions, but we also live under constant threat from all manner of events in the vast universe. Professor Lawrence Rudnick will talk us through a variety of ways our world could end – from asteroid impacts to rogue black holes – and wax philosophical about whether the universe itself might have prevented us from ever existing. You may lose some sleep after this Cafe -- not from fear but from the amazing perspectives we gain on humanity when we think BIG.

Professor Rudnick is an observational astrophysicist from the University of Minnesota, studying both supernova remnants and large-scale structures in the Universe. He uses a wide variety of ground and space-based telescopes in the radio, X-ray, infrared, and optical portions of the spectrum. Professor Rudnick was a founding member of the Minnesota Planetarium Society, which has now merged its operations with the Bell Museum to provide astronomy and space education across Minnesota. He is actively involved in public outreach activities and K-12 science education, and was a consultant and on-screen expert for public TV’s Newton’s Apple for 14 years. Professor Rudnick has been recognized with the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education and the Outstanding Community Service Award at the University of Minnesota.

Tuesday February 21 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

The intriguing world of 8-bit music comes to life in this fantastic reincarnation of the old themes and melodies during the 80's and 90's. Nerd Enhanced Sound (NES) explores these wonderful and lush musical backdrops of vintage video games that caught the eye of generation X and the generations to come.

Thursday, February 23 at 7:00pm (doors 6:00)

When was the last time you squirmed at the thought of
something you’ve done and hoped no one would find out about it? When was the last time you heard a juicy story about adultery, gluttony, theft, and more things that should not have happened being told without a hint of guilt or shame? Or told with a side of irony or wry humor? It’s all fair game when Colleen Kruse and Loren Niemi share The Sh**ty Things We’ve Done.” On stage. With an audience.

Colleen Kruse is a comedian, radio personality, and a ferociously honest and funny chronicler of her life and times.

Loren Niemi, first and foremost, is a storyteller of philosophically nuanced and emotionally ambiguous tales.

T\Every Saturday night this February they come together at Bryant Lake Bowl to recreate their exploration of the “seven deadly sins” and a few minor ones with stories that first saw the light of the Bryant Lake Bowl stage in 1997. It proved so popular that Colleen offered it on an annual basis with Alex Cole while Loren was living in Chicago. Now Loren’s back and Colleen’s got him confessing the awful and the awfully funny “Sh**ty things We’ve Done.”

Saturdays February 4, 11, 18 and 25 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

The 3rd Kind brings you kick-ass sketch comedy. It is commanded within the Declaration. “Close Encounters” with The 3rd Kind brings you the lethal combination of stand-up comedy, improv comedy and sketch comedy. Along with some of our favorite improvisers and stand-ups from Acme, HUGE, ComedySportz and Brave New Workshop, The 3rd Kind will set forth to abduct and deconstruct your sense of self. Your semblance of being should return to working order within an hour after our show. Kevin Albertson, Dave Christians, Ian Fishman, Heather Meyer, Sidney Oxborough, and Jen Scott compromise The 3rd Kind, directed by Joe Bozic. Communications commence at 3rdkindcomedy.com.
Mondays February 13, 20 and 27 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)