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BRYANT LAKE BOWL THEATER
Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater is a charming venue in Minneapolis, known for its intimate atmosphere and vibrant programming. With a cozy capacity of just 85 seats, the theater features a 9' x 22' stage that has hosted an impressive array of performances, including the quirky holiday favorite "A Very Die Hard Christmas." The venue also showcases musical talent, featuring renowned artists such as Dan Wilson, The Civil Wars, Jeremy Messersmith, and Soccer Mommy. This blend of theater and live music creates a unique community hub where audiences can enjoy a diverse range of artistic expressions in an inviting setting.
Take a look at our calendar to see what excellent shows we have happening this month.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
HOW DO I BUY TICKETS?
You can purchase tickets from our website using the link under the show’s description.
Any remaining tickets will be available at the door.
Doors typically open 30 or 60 minutes before the show; please check the event page on our website for specific times.
Tickets are available online up until two hours before each show. If the show isn’t sold out we will release the remaining tickets at the door.
I CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE SHOW.
CAN I GET A REFUND?
Sorry, but no.
No refunds or exchanges once you’ve purchased a ticket.
I JUST BOUGHT A TICKET.
DO I HAVE AN ASSIGNED SEAT?
Nope. All of our shows are general admission.
First come, first served.
CAN I EAT AND DRINK INSIDE THE THEATER?
For sure! (Bryant-Lake Bowl food and drinks, that is.)
We serve our full restaurant and bar menus inside the theater, which means you can order from and eat directly in your seat.
I’M INTERESTED IN BOOKING A SHOW.
WHAT DO I DO?
Reach out to Kristin Van Loon at Kristin@bryantlakebowl.com
When visiting Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater, convenient parking options are available to make your experience hassle-free. There’s a parking lot located directly behind the building, offering easy access for guests. Additionally, you'll find free off-street parking nearby, perfect for those looking to save on costs. For those who prefer guaranteed spots, paid off-street parking is also available in the vicinity. With these options, you can focus on enjoying the show without worrying about where to park!
Clown Rodeo
Get ready for a wild ride at Clown Rodeo, the game show that's on a quest to find the true clown! Hosted by Minneapolis's own comedian Sarah McPeck and her trusty clown sidekick, Drew, this isn't your average rodeo. Cast includes Kerri O’Halloran, Ethan Martin, Elizabeth Selin, Luis Uz, Mia Diagnosis, and Melancholy.
Two teams, each a powerhouse trio of one drag queen, one improviser, and one stand-up comedian, will battle it out in a series of uproarious challenges. Expect gut-busting comedy challenges, side-splitting physical challenges, and dazzling displays of drag. Plus, test your wits with a hilarious trivia component!
This fast-paced, fun-filled show guarantees an evening of non-stop entertainment and unexpected laughs.
Audience, saddle up! We encourage you to unleash your inner clown or embrace your best western wear. Come dressed in your most fun western or clown attire and join the spectacle!
Produced by Sarah McPeck and Emily LaJoy
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
The Residency at BLB feat. Waxy Comedy and DoctaBrothaMista
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, THE RESIDENCY AT BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!" After the show, stay for Improv Community Time!
Waxy Comedy
[Beva Steinburg, Nate Strong, John Joachim,Deanna Hirman,Tom Schmidt,Tricia Carlberg]
Waxy Comedy hits the stage like a nervous college sorority run by adults who should know better, with half of us creeping awkwardly into scenes like sullen teenagers.
DoctaBrothaMista
[Linc Owens, Alsa Bruno, Dorian Beal]
DoctaBrothaMista is a comedy anomale of the highest order. Improv is their get down and curiosity is their get up. From their shows at Good Camel Comedy Theater to their performance at the Lt. Sunnie Summer concert (& music video) to their endless social media hijinx, DrBrMr is an unexpected delight of formless good times wrapped in a charming trio of chatty creatives. We are honored to bring prescription laughs to Bryant-Lake Bowl. ##TheDrBrMrIsIn
The Residency at BLB is produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet and Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Grotesque Fest VI
Do you hear the cracking? The shifting? The unearthing of something that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end? It’s a new collection of films, art, and performance from yours truly! Grotesque Fest is BACK for our Sixth installment and we dove deep for this one. We traveled through dark alleys, to the depths of the waters below, confronted our creative struggles via visual experimentation, and experienced psychic warfare while putting our latest show together for you. Once our TWO NIGHT journey together is over, you’ll never be the same again.
THIS SHOW IS GOING TO START AT 7PM SHARP!!!! So try to get here by 7PM!!! Both Nights are the same show.
FEATURING AN ORIGINAL LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM THE HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL BOO DIOR (Bring your dollar bills - or a willing sacrifice to our beloved Countess)
Featuring the SURREALISTIC ARTISTIC TALENTS of DERIK BOWER!
And of course, the FANTASTIC FILMWORK of Melina Her, Jason Ewert, Payden Bingham, Titus Gustafson, Count Spookula, Lily Berg, Ryan Schadalee, Jack Walterman, and WOLLYMIGHT!
Get here early!!! Doors open at 6PM and we’ll have a merch table available each night!
Poster Art By Lou Thomas
Tickets are $9 in Advance / $13 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Spook Who Sat By The Door
Dream Chambers Public Access presents: The Spook Who Sat By The Door
One of the most radical, revolutionary statements in film history, Ivan Dixon’s explosive adaptation of the novel by Sam Greenlee follows the fictional first Black CIA agent (Cook), who uses his specialized training to build a guerrilla army intent on government overthrow. So potent is the film’s call to revolution that it was pulled from theaters within days of opening.
Tickets are $5. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Improv Zodiac!
Improv Zodiac! is a unique monthly improv show that celebrates each zodiac season. Every month, three curated teams of Twin Cities improvisers—who share astrological placements in that month’s featured sign—come together to deliver hilarious, one-of-a-kind performances. Whether or not you’re interested in astrology, you'll love watching how the stars align on stage!
Improv Zodiac! on Instagram
Steph Callaghan on Instagram
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. $10 at the Door with a Valid Student ID. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Twin Town Live
Twin Town Live is a whirlwind multi-media variety comedy show with: stand-up, sketch, music, and more.
Hosted and created by Elliot Weber.
Featuring the most talented performers in the Twin Cities and nationally touring acts.
Expect nothing - Laugh a lot!
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Disaster Is the Best Medicine
All performer proceeds will be donated to Unidos MN
Nothing inspires action quite like a good catastrophe. We’d like to think we use knowledge, wisdom, and a shared sense of humanity,to prepare, but time and time again we do not act until something truly awful happens. And even then, we are often slowed by a bombardment of lies and insincerity. In the climate world (and in almost all other spheres), these bizarre and disturbing forces create an uneven patchwork of readiness and vulnerability.
Climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld is here to help. Join him for a program designed to inform you, prepare you for action, and possibly make you chuckle-weep into your nacho plate. Find out where we stand regarding true climatic extremes, meet someone who takes “fighting climate change” too literally, get a pep talk from a bewildered coach, and learn about action steps for troubled times.
As always, we will have open discussion and Q&A following the show. Come, learn, laugh, and be part of something. May contain a word or words typically not spoken in polite company.
Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
The Residency at BLB feat. Waxy Comedy and DoctaBrothaMista
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, THE RESIDENCY AT BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!" After the show, stay for Improv Community Time!
Waxy Comedy
[Beva Steinburg, Nate Strong, John Joachim,Deanna Hirman,Tom Schmidt,Tricia Carlberg]
Waxy Comedy hits the stage like a nervous college sorority run by adults who should know better, with half of us creeping awkwardly into scenes like sullen teenagers.
DoctaBrothaMista
[Linc Owens, Alsa Bruno, Dorian Beal]
DoctaBrothaMista is a comedy anomale of the highest order. Improv is their get down and curiosity is their get up. From their shows at Good Camel Comedy Theater to their performance at the Lt. Sunnie Summer concert (& music video) to their endless social media hijinx, DrBrMr is an unexpected delight of formless good times wrapped in a charming trio of chatty creatives. We are honored to bring prescription laughs to Bryant-Lake Bowl. ##TheDrBrMrIsIn
The Residency at BLB is produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet and Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Disaster Is the Best Medicine
All performer proceeds will be donated to Unidos MN
Nothing inspires action quite like a good catastrophe. We’d like to think we use knowledge, wisdom, and a shared sense of humanity,to prepare, but time and time again we do not act until something truly awful happens. And even then, we are often slowed by a bombardment of lies and insincerity. In the climate world (and in almost all other spheres), these bizarre and disturbing forces create an uneven patchwork of readiness and vulnerability.
Climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld is here to help. Join him for a program designed to inform you, prepare you for action, and possibly make you chuckle-weep into your nacho plate. Find out where we stand regarding true climatic extremes, meet someone who takes “fighting climate change” too literally, get a pep talk from a bewildered coach, and learn about action steps for troubled times.
As always, we will have open discussion and Q&A following the show. Come, learn, laugh, and be part of something. May contain a word or words typically not spoken in polite company.
Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
PEEPHOLE! Presents: "PLEASERAMA"
PEEPHOLE! Presents: "PLEASERAMA"
a sexploitation revue
featuring local drag and burlesque stars
hosted by Mink Hole
"Don't bother to ask . . . the answer is . . . Y-E-S!"
Join the cast of PEEPHOLE! and some very special guests for an evening engulfed in erotic passions, paying tribute to the soft-core classics of sexploitation cinema.
Featuring new and naughty local drag and burlesque stars:
Art Nemesis
Diora Doll
Gattina Jones
Juankie
Lucy Goosey
Makeva
Marquis Fleur-de-Lis
Mars
Nikki Nails
Plum Ridiculous
Raidne Reign
Velvet Menace
Wyrm
Hosted by Mink Hole with co-producer KK Teazer
+ FUNDRAISER RAFFLE AT INTERMISSION!
NEW THIS MONTH we will be fundraising for Leo's Tow, a local tow company that has been working tirelessly offering free tows for vehicles left behind after ICE abductions and working to help find the families of individuals who have been taken, as well as El Charrito, a West. St. Paul family business forced to close due to ICE activity, leaving the owners, workers, and their families without an ability to afford rent and groceries. A portion of show proceeds will be going to both fundraisers. Please consider supporting them and check the links below if you are able!
Support El Charrito and its workers during closure
Support Leo Towing for ICE Victims
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $5 - $15 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 9:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 8pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour
A live reading series featuring original science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction, and one musician underscores the readings with complementary auditory landscapes. We focus on Science Fiction so that we as a society are consciously building our futures, to see and talk about ourselves and each other in new ways- to see people of color, women, queer folks, and immigrants in the future- to show all of us in positions of power, and to show different ways of leading, etc. Science fiction examines not only the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also envisions new ways of doing things (and remembers ancient ways of doing and being in the future).
March 1, featuring:
Mankwe Ndosi is a Minneapolis-based vocal improviser and composer whose work draws from Black Creative Music, Hip hop, Afro-indigenous sound traditions, and liberation singing. She’s currently a Resident Community Engaged Artist at Pillsbury House and Theatre, a member of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and the Give Get Sistet - a sisterhood of Black Griot Singers and Improvisers. She’s performed with Nicole Mitchell, Douglas Ewart, Mike Ladd, and Atmosphere, and has been commissioned by Zeitgeist (MN), Ananya Dance Theatre(MN), Pillsbury House & Theatre (MN), and Maria Bauman Dance (NYC). Her practice weaves Black Women’s Ritual performance with the liberatory sonic explorations of the AACM. Her unique sound blends genre-stretching vocal techniques with message and magic.
Martin Law is a Minneapolis-based musician and scholar. Over the past three decades he has contributed sounds to a variety of projects for film, radio, podcasts, art installations, live performances, psychoacoustic research, and for an esteemed local SciFi Reading Hour. Martin owes his academic career to Yanni (yes, THAT Yanni), to Jodi, and to accidentally insulting his boss's taste in music that one time--- an incident which can be recounted only in the form of a shaggy dog story. He has taught courses on speech, rhetoric, ethics, and cultural studies at colleges and universities across the country. His current scholarship on Blackness and disability highlights the power of fugitive speech to rescue radical futures.
Dameun Strange is a sound explorer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound designer whose conceptual electronic and improvised electro-acoustic works focus on stories and themes of the African diaspora, often using surrealist and afro-futurist aesthetics. He is currently a graduate student in Composition at the University of Minnesota School of Music and lives in the Frogtown Community of Saint Paul, MN with his wife, Corina, and their inquisitive daughter, Ezra.
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Holidating: Wildlife Day
An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday!
Do you wish holiday romcoms happened all year?
Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round!
Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love, breakups, and meet-cutes themed around this month’s holiday!
Cast:
Hannah Wydeven
Laura Berger
Will Schroeder
Chris Rodriguez
Justin Michael
Liz Council
Keys:
Brian Allen
Produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet & Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
The Fifth Annual Monster Science Awards
The glitz! The glamour! The gala event of the season! Yes, that’s right, it’s time for the Fifth Annual Monster Science Awards, when the brightest stars of the Twin Cities alternative comedy scene walk the greyish bowling alley carpet, to accept awards for the monsters of 2025 that made us laugh, touched us deeply, and possibly prompted other emotional responses as well!
Featuring!
Amber Bjork
Rita Boersma
Allison Broeren
Josh Carson
Kristina Fjellman
Jay Kistler
Heather Meyer
Derek Lee Miller
Jen Scott
Tim Uren
Duck Washington
Jena Young
And hosted by Reverend Matt and Agent Elora!
Who will win Best Picture? Who will win Second Best Picture? Who will win Best Action Figure In Which the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cross Over With Another Major Entertainment Franchise Because This is the World Apparently? Be there - and be seen!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Comedy Magician Nick Diffatte
One of the most sought-after variety acts touring the globe is bringing his full show to Bryant Lake Bowl.
Nick Diffatte's award-winning mashup of eye-popping magic and uproarious comedy has led to regular performances at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle and features on programs such as CBS’s The Late Late Show and Penn and Teller's Fool Us. Diffatte has performed at nearly every property up and down the Las Vegas strip, including the New York, New York Hotel & Casino where he is currently starring in Cirque du Soleil’s hit residency, Mad Apple.
Don’t miss this chance to see Nick’s show in one of the most intimate settings he’s visiting this year.
Tickets are $20 in Advance / $25 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Comedy Magician Nick Diffatte
One of the most sought-after variety acts touring the globe is bringing his full show to Bryant Lake Bowl.
Nick Diffatte's award-winning mashup of eye-popping magic and uproarious comedy has led to regular performances at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle and features on programs such as CBS’s The Late Late Show and Penn and Teller's Fool Us. Diffatte has performed at nearly every property up and down the Las Vegas strip, including the New York, New York Hotel & Casino where he is currently starring in Cirque du Soleil’s hit residency, Mad Apple.
Don’t miss this chance to see Nick’s show in one of the most intimate settings he’s visiting this year.
Tickets are $20 in Advance / $25 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
A Drinking Game MN presents: Cinderella (1997)
If it’s magic you’re looking for, it’s magic we will bring to the stage in this live stage reading of Cinderella! Join us as our cast brings the 1997 version of Cinderella to life! We’ll have the songs, the dancing, costumes and we’ll absolutely be bringing all the magic! We can’t wait to show you what we have planned!
Our cast will have drinking cues through out the show as act it out, dance it out and sing it out! You, our audience, will have your own set of cues! Anytime you hear a bell ring, you can take a drink of whatever you like! So let’s go to the ball, let’s find that prince and see where the magic takes us!
See you there!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
OCE's World Music Night featuring special guests Willow Brae
Willow Brae is the duo of Andrea Stern, Celtic harpist and multi-instrumentalist Laura MacKenzie on traditional wind instruments and voice. Together they bring to life the airs, dance tunes and songs of the Irish and Scottish countrysides, conveying the warm resonance of traditional music and song as well as the spark and excitement of dynamic dance tunes. Their unusual combination of Celtic harp and various wind instruments creates a wondrous spectrum of sound. Laura performs on a dazzling array of wooden flutes, whistles, a variety of bagpipes, concertina and voice. Andrea plays a diverse range of styles on her Celtic harps and creates many of the duo’s engaging arrangements. While covering a variety of Celtic cultures, Willow Brae’s performances communicate their love for these traditions with skill, knowledge, humor, joyful music and fascinating instrumentation.
OCE features veteran musicians from the Twin Cities, performing traditional music from the northern Mediterranean region ranging from Spanish Sephardic to Greek and Turkish music, and original compositions inspired by the regions. They weave tales of the history of the music from 711 A.D on and the fusion of sounds that spread through the Mediterranean, as well as the instruments they perform.
OCE on Facebook
Willow Brae Website
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 7pm. Online ticket sales end at 5:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Bring Your Kids!
Bring Your Kids!
A comedy variety show for kids and their grown ups.
Perfect for ages 5 and up.
Featuring comedians, musicians and generalized silliness.
Kids - bring a joke to tell! Grown ups - I hope you like jokes.
More information at bringyourkidscomedy.com
Tickets are $7 for Kids / $12 for Adults. Doors open at 2PM. Online ticket sales end at 1PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Sh*tfaced Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Mark your calendars for End Times Theater’s third Sh*tfaced Shakespeare Fundraiser on March 21st at 7pm! Come see your favorite performers to get wasted on stage and raise money for our upcoming musical production of "Insane Animals"!
How It Works: You, the audience, get to decide how drunk our performers will be! During the show, every $20 you donate will grant you the ability to choose one performer to take a shot in character. You can buy as many shots as you like, but you and the performers won't know if they're getting alcohol or something else! It's shot roulette!
Enjoy an evening of low stakes tomfoolery and an accessible romp through the language of The Bard. "Romeo & Juliet" will hit the stage with all the lines you know and leave the performers at the mercy of the audience.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Improv Zodiac!
Improv Zodiac! is a unique monthly improv show that celebrates each zodiac season. Every month, three curated teams of Twin Cities improvisers—who share astrological placements in that month’s featured sign—come together to deliver hilarious, one-of-a-kind performances. Whether or not you’re interested in astrology, you'll love watching how the stars align on stage!
Improv Zodiac! on Instagram
Steph Callaghan on Instagram
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. $10 at the Door with a Valid Student ID. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Anjimile
Anjimile (ann-JIM-uh-lee) Chithambo has forged a distinctive musical path characterised by unflinching introspection and deep honesty. Emerging from Boston’s vibrant indie scene while studying at Northeastern University, Anjimile captivated audiences with earnest songwriting, delicate sonic textures, and performances that felt like prayer and celebration.
Critical acclaim quickly followed; 2020’s Giver Taker, hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the year's best albums, positioned him as a compelling voice exploring enduring themes of spirituality, identity, and liberation. With The King (2023), Anjimile intensified his examination of Black and trans existence amid personal and societal turbulence, reaffirming his courageous commitment to navigating discomfort as a means of liberation.
You’re Free to Go, picks up where The King left off, but with its hands open wide - a central question being: what happens when you let go and let love in?
Crafted over years marked by transformation, the album traces vividly the profound complexities of change - from breakups to new love; deep grief and loss to renewal and rediscovery. “The past two years have been a deeply transitional point in my life,” Anjimile explains. On You’re Free to Go, he learns to trust life again.
You’re Free to Go is a portrait of transformation — not as a wound, but as an opening. Richly textured, this collection of songs is an honest reflection of life's fluctuations. It holds space for contradiction and finds liberation in tenderness. As Anjimile beautifully articulates, the album embodies "breathing into the question," acknowledging that life’s most profound moments often come without clear answers, but rather exist in the gentle tension of uncertainty and discovery. In every note, Anjimile provides space for each listener to reflect and uncover their own truths, while gently reminding us that freedom isn’t the absence of pain, but the courage to love, to ask, to keep beginning again.
Tickets are $18 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 7pm. Online ticket sales end at 6pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Grotesque Fest VI
Do you hear the cracking? The shifting? The unearthing of something that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end? It’s a new collection of films, art, and performance from yours truly! Grotesque Fest is BACK for our Sixth installment and we dove deep for this one. We traveled through dark alleys, to the depths of the waters below, confronted our creative struggles via visual experimentation, and experienced psychic warfare while putting our latest show together for you. Once our TWO NIGHT journey together is over, you’ll never be the same again.
THIS SHOW IS GOING TO START AT 7PM SHARP!!!! So try to get here by 7PM!!! Both Nights are the same show.
FEATURING AN ORIGINAL LIVE PERFORMANCE FROM THE HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL BOO DIOR (Bring your dollar bills - or a willing sacrifice to our beloved Countess)
Featuring the SURREALISTIC ARTISTIC TALENTS of DERIK BOWER!
And of course, the FANTASTIC FILMWORK of Melina Her, Jason Ewert, Payden Bingham, Titus Gustafson, Count Spookula, Lily Berg, Ryan Schadalee, Jack Walterman, and WOLLYMIGHT!
Get here early!!! Doors open at 6PM and we’ll have a merch table available each night!
Poster Art By Lou Thomas
Tickets are $9 in Advance / $13 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Disaster Is the Best Medicine
***SOLD OUT***
All performer proceeds will be donated to Unidos MN
Nothing inspires action quite like a good catastrophe. We’d like to think we use knowledge, wisdom, and a shared sense of humanity,to prepare, but time and time again we do not act until something truly awful happens. And even then, we are often slowed by a bombardment of lies and insincerity. In the climate world (and in almost all other spheres), these bizarre and disturbing forces create an uneven patchwork of readiness and vulnerability.
Climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld is here to help. Join him for a program designed to inform you, prepare you for action, and possibly make you chuckle-weep into your nacho plate. Find out where we stand regarding true climatic extremes, meet someone who takes “fighting climate change” too literally, get a pep talk from a bewildered coach, and learn about action steps for troubled times.
As always, we will have open discussion and Q&A following the show. Come, learn, laugh, and be part of something. May contain a word or words typically not spoken in polite company.
Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
A Drinking Game Mn presents: The Mummy
Adventure is reborn in this epic that we know as The Mummy!
Join A Drinking Game Mn for our 14th anniversary as our actors do a live stage reading of this adventurous movie. Our actors will have script in hand as they uncover the secret, unlock the legend and unleash the power of the Mummy. Throughout, they will have drinking cues in hand so when they hear their characters name said, a drink they must take! YOU, our audience will also have drinking cues throughout. Hear a bell and take a drink of whatever you like!
Join us, and together we will prepare. Beware. Behold. The might of The Mummy and the magic of 14 years of performing A Drinking Game Mn.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
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The [LOVE] Life of a Showgirl: Ginger Does Gershwin
This Valentine’s weekend, slip into the sparkling world of Mistress Ginger. The Twin Cities’ beloved cabaret queen invites you on a joyful journey through the timeless songs of George and Ira Gershwin – where romance, rhythm, and vintage glamour reign supreme.
With the Franco Holder at the piano, Ginger serves up a night of swoony ballads, infectious rhythms, and playful wit, weaving Gershwin’s melodies together with stories of memory, imagination, and a long-forgotten family legacy. The result is a richly entertaining evening that shimmers with longing, humor, and heart.
Whether you’re a devoted Gershwin fan or simply looking for a glamorous Valentine’s weekend outing, you’ll be swept away by an evening of "'S Wonderful" music, laughter, and showgirl sparkle.
“Mistress Ginger is a cabaret singer who brings warmth and depth to a lyric, and always lets the song shine through. She moves easily from the steam of a torch song to the campy wink of a double entendre – always while holding up the classic composers and lyricists she loves.” –Michael Whistler of Interact Center for the Arts, for MPR News Art Hounds, 2021
Website
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Bring Your Kids!
Bring Your Kids!
A comedy variety show for kids and their grown ups.
Perfect for ages 5 and up.
Featuring comedians, musicians and generalized silliness.
Kids - bring a joke to tell! Grown ups - I hope you like jokes.
More information at bringyourkidscomedy.com
Tickets are $7 for Kids / $12 for Adults. Doors open at 2PM. Online ticket sales end at 1PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
The Residency at BLB feat. Waxy Comedy and DoctaBrothaMista
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, THE RESIDENCY AT BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!" After the show, stay for Improv Community Time!
Waxy Comedy
[Beva Steinburg, Nate Strong, John Joachim,Deanna Hirman,Tom Schmidt,Tricia Carlberg]
Waxy Comedy hits the stage like a nervous college sorority run by adults who should know better, with half of us creeping awkwardly into scenes like sullen teenagers.
DoctaBrothaMista
[Linc Owens, Alsa Bruno, Dorian Beal]
DoctaBrothaMista is a comedy anomale of the highest order. Improv is their get down and curiosity is their get up. From their shows at Good Camel Comedy Theater to their performance at the Lt. Sunnie Summer concert (& music video) to their endless social media hijinx, DrBrMr is an unexpected delight of formless good times wrapped in a charming trio of chatty creatives. We are honored to bring prescription laughs to Bryant-Lake Bowl. ##TheDrBrMrIsIn
The Residency at BLB is produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet and Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
The [LOVE] Life of a Showgirl: Ginger Does Gershwin
This Valentine’s weekend, slip into the sparkling world of Mistress Ginger. The Twin Cities’ beloved cabaret queen invites you on a joyful journey through the timeless songs of George and Ira Gershwin – where romance, rhythm, and vintage glamour reign supreme.
With the Franco Holder at the piano, Ginger serves up a night of swoony ballads, infectious rhythms, and playful wit, weaving Gershwin’s melodies together with stories of memory, imagination, and a long-forgotten family legacy. The result is a richly entertaining evening that shimmers with longing, humor, and heart.
Whether you’re a devoted Gershwin fan or simply looking for a glamorous Valentine’s weekend outing, you’ll be swept away by an evening of "'S Wonderful" music, laughter, and showgirl sparkle.
“Mistress Ginger is a cabaret singer who brings warmth and depth to a lyric, and always lets the song shine through. She moves easily from the steam of a torch song to the campy wink of a double entendre – always while holding up the classic composers and lyricists she loves.” –Michael Whistler of Interact Center for the Arts, for MPR News Art Hounds, 2021
Website
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Movie Fight Club
People got movie opinions, and sometimes those opinions have right hooks.
Come see several of Twin Cities most hilarious cinephiles engage in several rounds of verbal fisticuffs covering a wide-range of movie and pop-culture topics.
Confirming what is over and under-rated! Relitigating guilty pleasures!
Igniting the hot takes!
Featuring:
Kat Perkins
Joey Hamburger
Phoebe Bottoms
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
OCE's World Music Night featuring special guest Dan Turpening
Dan Turpening is the strolling accordionist at your friend's wedding, at the local farmer's market, or at Gasthaus Bavarian Hunter in Stillwater. He is also THE #1 accordion repair guy in the metro if not the country, located in the Thorpe Building in NE Minneapolis. But TONIGHT, Dan will take you on a journey of accordion tunes, from France, Germany, to places known and unknown. AND he will be recorded, so be in the audience to cheer him on!
OCE features veteran musicians from the Twin Cities, performing traditional music from the northern Mediterranean region ranging from Spanish Sephardic to Greek and Turkish music, and original compositions inspired by the regions. They weave tales of the history of the music from 711 A.D on and the fusion of sounds that spread through the Mediterranean, as well as the instruments they perform.
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Dan Turpening’s Accordion Shoppe
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 7pm. Online ticket sales end at 5:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST: Shorts & Jorts
FIVE EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE PIECES AND ONE (short) PLAY!
The Shorts: A Variety Show of New Experimental Performance
Bouffon-inspired physical theater, experimental dances about Gratitude and Girlies, an interview with the Universal Publick Friend, and 19th-century drag performances all feature in this rapid-fire variety show of new work by Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp, sn/ophie, Eliana Durnbaugh & Co., Shelby Richardson, and Nat Young.
The Jorts: "GUILLOTINE CITY," A New One-Act Play
Watch your fingers! The blade-like doors of the Minneapolis-St Paul Elevated Rail are razor-sharp, and the masses of swarming, indifferent crows are hungry. Who are you supposed to believe in this city of 44 million people? What kind of revolution wears a mask? And why should I care? "GUILLOTINE CITY" by Marge Jorts Buckley. Directed by Sam Weisberg. Music by Leo Dreis. Starring Erik Abramsen, Sasha Blinnikova, and Allison Young.
Shorts & Jorts is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 1pm. Online ticket sales end at 12pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 10:30am on February 8th is Movie Brunch, a matinee showing of the excellent and underseen film noir “GUILLOTINE CITY,” co-presented with Sloppy Discs Video Rental.
COMMFEST: Movie Brunch
Because nothing goes with brunch quite like Orson Welles playing a Nazi war criminal. Selection inspired by the COMMFEST premiere of "GUILLOTINE CITY." Join us for a matinee showing of this excellent and underseen film noir, co-presented with Sloppy Discs Video Rental.
Sloppy Discs is a pop-up video rental in Minneapolis. Created by local film enthusiast and physical media booster, Emmet Kowler, Sloppy Discs is a balm for the broken promises of streaming, bringing back a little IRL magic to watching movies at home. Catch the Sloppy Discs rental table at COMMFEST or find them around town at sloppydiscs.com
Movie Brunch is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $10. Doors open at 10am. Online ticket sales end at 8:30am.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 2pm on February 8th is Shorts & Jorts, five experimental performances and one (short) play.
COMMFEST: The Icemen Go-eth (An ICE-Out Open Mic)
Feeling like you could really use four minutes in front of an audience to unburden your heart or speak your mind? We're doing an open mic! Bring a poem, dance, speech, open-mouthed scream, short theatre piece, or any other open-mic style offering. You could even get up and sing a karaoke song...YEP! We'll have a karaoke set-up. Come in a little early and put your name on the list. The only rule? ABOLISH DHS.
All of Commutator Collective's Saturday proceeds will go to support MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC).
MIRAC is an all-volunteer, grassroots, multiracial, and multinational immigrant rights mass-movement organization. MIRAC fights for legalization for all, an end to immigration raids and deportations, an end to all anti-immigrant laws, and full equality in all areas of life.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 9:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 7pm on February 7th is Shorts & Jorts, five experimental performances and one (short) play.
COMMFEST: Shorts & Jorts
FIVE EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE PIECES AND ONE (short) PLAY!
The Shorts: A Variety Show of New Experimental Performance
Bouffon-inspired physical theater, experimental dances about Gratitude and Girlies, an interview with the Universal Publick Friend, and 19th-century drag performances all feature in this rapid-fire variety show of new work by Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp, sn/ophie, Eliana Durnbaugh & Co., Shelby Richardson, and Nat Young.
The Jorts: "GUILLOTINE CITY," A New One-Act Play
Watch your fingers! The blade-like doors of the Minneapolis-St Paul Elevated Rail are razor-sharp, and the masses of swarming, indifferent crows are hungry. Who are you supposed to believe in this city of 44 million people? What kind of revolution wears a mask? And why should I care? "GUILLOTINE CITY" by Marge Jorts Buckley. Directed by Sam Weisberg. Music by Leo Dreis. Starring Erik Abramsen, Sasha Blinnikova, and Allison Young.
Shorts & Jorts is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 10pm on February 7th is The Icemen Goeth (An ICE-Out Open Mic), an open mic to unburden your heart or speak your mind.
COMMFEST: PLEASE!
PUPPETRY, PROJECTION, AND POP MUSIC COMBINE IN FELICIA COOPER’S NEW ADAPTATION OF BUCHNER’S WOYZECK
PLEASE! is a high intensity and humorous trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, exploring the depths of surveillance, desire, power and who holds it. PLEASE! was created in collaborations with Lizz Windnagel, Sam Weisberg, Alice Endo, Davey Steinman, and LIPING VONG, with original music by Lisa Frank.
Felicia Cooper is an artist working in puppetry, performance and embodied research. Her work has been seen at LaMama Theater's Puppet Festival, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Dixon Place, and locally in the Twin Cities. It has been supported by the Tri M Foundation, The National Humanities Center, the Connecticut Sea Grant, the Heinz Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Pennsylvania State Arts Board, and others. She makes work embedded in community and creates platforms for others to create experimental work, including the Puppet Union and her work with the Minnesota Fringe Festival, where she serves as the Director of Audience and Volunteer Engagement. She holds an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut. Go Huskies.
PLEASE! is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 9:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 7pm on February 6th is Shorts & Jorts, five experimental performances and one (short) play.
COMMFEST: Shorts & Jorts
FIVE EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE PIECES AND ONE (short) PLAY!
The Shorts: A Variety Show of New Experimental Performance
Bouffon-inspired physical theater, experimental dances about Gratitude and Girlies, an interview with the Universal Publick Friend, and 19th-century drag performances all feature in this rapid-fire variety show of new work by Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp, sn/ophie, Eliana Durnbaugh & Co., Shelby Richardson, and Nat Young.
The Jorts: "GUILLOTINE CITY," A New One-Act Play
Watch your fingers! The blade-like doors of the Minneapolis-St Paul Elevated Rail are razor-sharp, and the masses of swarming, indifferent crows are hungry. Who are you supposed to believe in this city of 44 million people? What kind of revolution wears a mask? And why should I care? "GUILLOTINE CITY" by Marge Jorts Buckley. Directed by Sam Weisberg. Music by Leo Dreis. Starring Erik Abramsen, Sasha Blinnikova, and Allison Young.
Shorts & Jorts is part of COMMFEST, a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Playing at 10pm on February 6th is PLEASE!, a high intensity and humorous trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, exploring the depths of surveillance, desire, power and who holds it.
COMMFEST
COMMFEST is February 6th - 8th and features two shows per day.
Purchase tickets to both shows on the same day and receive a free drink!
One ticket deal, two performances, plus a little something extra.
Friday February 6th
Shorts & Jorts
7pm Show / 6pm Doors
The Shorts: A Variety Show of New Experimental Performance
Bouffon-inspired physical theater, experimental dances about Gratitude and Girlies, an interview with the Universal Publick Friend, and 19th-century drag performances all feature in this rapid-fire variety show of new work by Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp, sn/ophie, Eliana Durnbaugh & Co., Shelby Richardson, and Nat Young.
The Jorts: "GUILLOTINE CITY," A New One-Act Play
Watch your fingers! The blade-like doors of the Minneapolis-St Paul Elevated Rail are razor-sharp, and the masses of swarming, indifferent crows are hungry. Who are you supposed to believe in this city of 44 million people? What kind of revolution wears a mask? And why should I care? "GUILLOTINE CITY" by Marge Jorts Buckley. Directed by Sam Weisberg. Music by Lisa Frank. Starring Erik Abramsen, Sasha Blinnikova, and Allison Young.
PLEASE!
10pm Show / 9:30pm Doors
PLEASE! is a high intensity and humorous trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, exploring the depths of surveillance, desire, power and who holds it. PLEASE! was created in collaborations with Lizz Windnagel, Sam Weisberg, Alice Endo, Davey Steinman, and LIPING VONG, with original music by Lisa Frank.
Felicia Cooper is an artist working in puppetry, performance and embodied research. Her work has been seen at LaMama Theater's Puppet Festival, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Dixon Place, and locally in the Twin Cities. It has been supported by the Tri M Foundation, The National Humanities Center, the Connecticut Sea Grant, the Heinz Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Pennsylvania State Arts Board, and others. She makes work embedded in community and creates platforms for others to create experimental work, including the Puppet Union and her work with the Minnesota Fringe Festival, where she serves as the Director of Audience and Volunteer Engagement. She holds an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut. Go Huskies.
Saturday February 7th
Shorts & Jorts
7pm Show / 6pm Doors
The Icemen Goeth (An ICE-Out Open Mic)
10pm Show / 9:30pm Doors
Feeling like you could really use four minutes in front of an audience to unburden your heart or speak your mind? We're doing an open mic! Bring a poem, dance, speech, open-mouthed scream, short theatre piece, or any other open-mic style offering. You could even get up and sing a karaoke song...YEP! We'll have a karaoke set-up. Come in a little early and put your name on the list. The only rule? ABOLISH DHS.
All of Commutator Collective's Saturday proceeds will go to support MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC).
MIRAC is an all-volunteer, grassroots, multiracial, and multinational immigrant rights mass-movement organization. MIRAC fights for legalization for all, an end to immigration raids and deportations, an end to all anti-immigrant laws, and full equality in all areas of life.
Sunday February 8th
Movie Brunch
10:30am Show / 10am Doors
Because nothing goes with brunch quite like Orson Welles playing a Nazi war criminal. Selection inspired by the COMMFEST premiere of "GUILLOTINE CITY." Join us for a matinee showing of this excellent and underseen film noir, co-presented with Sloppy Discs Video Rental.
Sloppy Discs is a pop-up video rental in Minneapolis. Created by local film enthusiast and physical media booster, Emmet Kowler, Sloppy Discs is a balm for the broken promises of streaming, bringing back a little IRL magic to watching movies at home. Catch the Sloppy Discs rental table at COMMFEST or find them around town at sloppydiscs.com
Shorts & Jorts
2pm Show / 1pm Doors
COMMFEST is a micro-festival of experimental performance running February 6-8 at the Bryant Lake Bowl, presented by Commutator Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group based in Minneapolis. Check out the rest of the weekend’s shows at commfest.net
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Monster Science First Thursdays: Nessie Galore
Distract yourself if you are so inclined with a complete history of the Loch Ness Monster!
In the wake of one of the greatest Nessie researchers of all time declaring, after 52 years of searching, that it doesn’t exist, find out more of the story behind the legend.
Might it exist anyway?
And if so, what could it be?
A rare Reverend Matt solo show, presented in honor of Twin Cities theater superfans Candice and Sarra Beckham-Chasnoff.
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Holidating: Valentine's Day
An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday!
Do you wish holiday romcoms happened all year?
Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round! Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love, breakups, and meet-cutes themed around this month’s holiday!
Cast:
Will Schroeder
Hannah Wydeven
Laura Berger
Erin Clarkin
Liz Council
Justin Michael
Keys: Brian Allen
Produced by JimJam Media
(Philip Simondet & Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
Ticket are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB featuring Flesh and Felt and Cellar Dwellers
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, THE RESIDENCY AT BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
After the show, stay for Improv Community Time!
FLESH AND FELT
[Jen Scott, Erin Clarkin, Riga Wiitala, zelia Gonzales, Hannah Robb]
Henson trained puppeteer and company of fleshy friends team up to improvise a structured character driven story. In other words, it’s a puppet and people making shit up.
CELLAR DWELLERS
[MaryJo Weishan, Jackson Mizusaki, Zach Lower, Tyler Gwinn, Alex Evans, Zac 2, Arielle, and Lee]
The Cellar Dwellers are a rag-tag group of improvisers who have emerged from the underground to provide a sense of other worldly silliness and wonder in every set!
The Residency at BLB is produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet and Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Twin Town Live: A Comedy Cabaret
Twin Town Live is the best damn comedy hour around. A whirlwind multi-media variety show with: stand-up, sketch, music, drag, burlesque, magic, clowns, and more.
Hosted and created by Elliot Weber.
Featuring the most talented performers in the Twin Cities and nationally touring acts. Expect nothing - Laugh a lot!
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Improv Zodiac!
Improv Zodiac! is a unique monthly improv show that celebrates each zodiac season. Every month, three curated teams of Twin Cities improvisers—who share astrological placements in that month’s featured sign—come together to deliver hilarious, one-of-a-kind performances. Whether or not you’re interested in astrology, you'll love watching how the stars align on stage!
Improv Zodiac! on Instagram
Steph Callaghan on Instagram
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. $10 at the Door with a Valid Student ID. Doors open at 6:30pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Baron Vordenburg's Guide to the Para-Normal
In the wake of today’s events unfolding, we are cancelling tonight’s show (1/24) for the wellbeing and safety of our actors and audiences. The Baron will return to the stage 1/25 Sunday.
- Dark Pony Productions
Hunters welcome to tonight's symposium.
The world renown Baron Vordenburg, begins his lecture series with a take on the most deadly of the Para-Normal creatures, the Vampire. You will learn a little bit about the vampire lore, and common misconceptions about these creatures.
Along with his two assistants, Gothic and Grotesque, this evening's event is sure to be unforgettable. This gothic horror symposium, was Dark Pony Productions entry into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, and is returning to Minneapolis with 5 stars reviews, to share the uncomfortable darkness.
We here at Dark Pony Productions would like notify you of content warning, for themes, weapons, brutality, violence, and blood as some situations may activate underlying trauma for individuals.
"A show that will stick with me" - Broadway Baby
"He [Baron] leaves us with a punchy finale" -Wee Review
"impeccably spooky and charismatic" - Mark Fernyhough
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.