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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 82 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!
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.
Star Wars Holiday Special for Toys for Tots
Things are a bit different this year but still weird and awesome.
Tickets available at BLB on Wednesday, December 10th at noon with your toy donation! Your generosity and support of this event over the years remains unmatched. Are eternal thanks for making us part of your holiday traditions. For my 20th year doing this (and 18th year at BLB) i’ve called in some help from my friends. While the main program will be the Star Wars Holiday special event you know and love, each show we have a unique element to it.
3:30pm Show
First round on F1rst Wrestling! Bring an unwrapped toy donation to the 3:30pm show and your first pint of Bent Paddle Wookiee Cookie Cream Ale or fountain beverage is on us! Just one more round, friend…
6:30pm Show
Star Wars Holiday Special survival kits from The Racket! Hot pink glow sticks, ear plugs and other bits and bobs to help you survive the onslaught of sights and sounds from another galaxy.
9:30pm Show
Tape Freaks Presents: The Star Wars Holiday Special. Check out a custom pre show and be dazzled by some silly trivia and fun facts from historians of cinematic oddities, Tim Holly and Colette Ricci, before settling in for some incomparable weirdness.
Free entry with Toy Donation.
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.
Star Wars Holiday Special for Toys for Tots
Things are a bit different this year but still weird and awesome.
Tickets available at BLB on Wednesday, December 10th at noon with your toy donation! Your generosity and support of this event over the years remains unmatched. Are eternal thanks for making us part of your holiday traditions. For my 20th year doing this (and 18th year at BLB) i’ve called in some help from my friends. While the main program will be the Star Wars Holiday special event you know and love, each show we have a unique element to it.
3:30pm Show
First round on F1rst Wrestling! Bring an unwrapped toy donation to the 3:30pm show and your first pint of Bent Paddle Wookiee Cookie Cream Ale or fountain beverage is on us! Just one more round, friend…
6:30pm Show
Star Wars Holiday Special survival kits from The Racket! Hot pink glow sticks, ear plugs and other bits and bobs to help you survive the onslaught of sights and sounds from another galaxy.
9:30pm Show
Tape Freaks Presents: The Star Wars Holiday Special. Check out a custom pre show and be dazzled by some silly trivia and fun facts from historians of cinematic oddities, Tim Holly and Colette Ricci, before settling in for some incomparable weirdness.
Free entry with Toy Donation.
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.
Star Wars Holiday Special for Toys for Tots
Things are a bit different this year but still weird and awesome.
Tickets available at BLB on Wednesday, December 10th at noon with your toy donation! Your generosity and support of this event over the years remains unmatched. Are eternal thanks for making us part of your holiday traditions. For my 20th year doing this (and 18th year at BLB) i’ve called in some help from my friends. While the main program will be the Star Wars Holiday special event you know and love, each show we have a unique element to it.
3:30pm Show
First round on F1rst Wrestling! Bring an unwrapped toy donation to the 3:30pm show and your first pint of Bent Paddle Wookiee Cookie Cream Ale or fountain beverage is on us! Just one more round, friend…
6:30pm Show
Star Wars Holiday Special survival kits from The Racket! Hot pink glow sticks, ear plugs and other bits and bobs to help you survive the onslaught of sights and sounds from another galaxy.
9:30pm Show
Tape Freaks Presents: The Star Wars Holiday Special. Check out a custom pre show and be dazzled by some silly trivia and fun facts from historians of cinematic oddities, Tim Holly and Colette Ricci, before settling in for some incomparable weirdness.
Free entry with Toy Donation.
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.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 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.
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.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 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.
Ole Einar Edervederstad and the Meaning of Christmas
Midwesterian legend Ole Einar Edervederstad is returning to showbiz and you can be there when Ole and the Electrophonic Polka Band make their triumpherant return! Everything will go as planned and absolutely nothing will go wrong!
Featuring the talents of Joni Griffith, Catherine Hansen, Eryn Tvete, Trevor Woggon, and the apotomus Ole Einar Edervederstad!
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.
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.
Mistress Ginger’s Generation X-mas
Hark! Mistress Ginger is here to make your Yuletide extra gay. With her 4th annual X-mas spectacular, this cabaret queen is serving up a sleighful of holiday tunes from Christmas past, some from beloved TV specials, some from your favorite pop divas, and some from way, way back (Nutcracker, anyone?). With George Maurer on piano and dancer Jarod Boltjes, it’ll be a rousing romp brimming with live music, high kicks, and a stud muffin or two – sure to get your chestnuts roasted.
Mistress Ginger is a singer and dancer, captivating audiences with her cabaret performances in the Twin Cities since 2006. From intimate gatherings at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater to enchanting evenings at the Crooners Supper Club, she weaves stories through her songs, inviting listeners on whimsical journeys brimming with heart, imagination, and the occasional fan kick. And she can cook too! Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks, is a campy primer for plant-based eating with pizzazz, and signed copies will available after the show – a perfect holiday gift!
“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
“Mistress Ginger took their Broadway, Circa 1986 audience on a journey from musical-obsessed, closeted queer kid, to fully-formed, gender-expansive diva in a transcendent, camp show. She joked that their vocal range is like Bea Arthur’s, but strong vocal skills were presented all throughout the show. Not once did she falter, in a show that felt well-rehearsed — yet off-the-cuff — with room for improvisation, like personally interacting with the audience on a first-name basis…” -Derek Maurawski-Harguth of Derek Please, Twin Cities Gay Scene
George Maurer (piano) is a performer, arranger, music director and composer – talents that have taken him all over the world. He has performed with Eric Clapton, shared the stage with Bruno Mars, composed for renowned musicians, and music directed the Tony- and Grammy-awarded original cast of Broadway’s Jersey Boys in The Midtown Men. He was also the recipient of a McKnight Composers Fellowship in 2014. More info
Jarod Boltjes (dancer), a MN native, is a current company member with James Sewell Ballet and Collide Theatrical. Some previous credits include Contempo Physical Dance, St. Paul Ballet, and Twin Cities Ballet. Outside of the dance studio you can find Jarod teaching yoga and barre fitness classes as a certified instructor, under the circus tent cross-training aerialist at Circus Juventas, and embracing the MN seasons outside with his two dogs Thomas and Luna.
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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.
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.
I'll Be Home For Kahless BINGO
Do you love Hallmark Christmas movies? Do you also love Star Trek? Well we have got the show for you! "I'll Be Home for Kahless", brings you all of your beloved Hallmark movie tropes with a Klingon twist! And what could make this even more fun? A combination of Bingo and A Drinking Game MN!
Here’s how the show will work: A show and bingo all in one! Audiences get to enjoy the staged reading version of “I’ll Be Home For Kahless” AND play bingo at the same time! As the show is performed, specific bingo words and Hallmark movie tropes will serve as bingo numbers. When that word or phrase occurs, the bingo caller will ring jingle bells and display that PowerPoint slide. Bingo players will then cross the corresponding word or phrase off on their bingo card. The game is designed for both a regular bingo (sideways or diagonal) winner and, subsequently, a cover-all or blackout winner. And of course… there are prizes!! We’re going to up the ante with A Drinking Game Mn by including phrases that will mean... take a drink! We know everyone always wins at A Drinking Game!
This is a special version of the hit show "I'll Be Home For Kahless: The Hallmark Parody of the Season" that ran at the Phoenix Theater last year. This staged reading has also been a fan favorite at Convergence for four years.
"I'll Be Home For Kahless" was written by Angela Fox, the writer who also brought you the award winning "Next: The Musical (A Sidekick Story)" and the critically acclaimed musical "No Small Parts".
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Tickets are $15 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.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 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.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 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.
PEEPHOLE'S TRIPLE D: A Non-Denominational Die-Hard December Show
From the cast that brought you DAVID LYNCH DRAG SHOW and GRINDHAUS, comes a very special holiday program dedicated to ending the war on Christmas . . .
PEEPHOLE! presents: TRIPLE D A Non-Denominational Die-Hard December Show . . . paying tribute to all your favorite films that take place in the month of December . . .
Featuring the talents of the PEEPHOLE! cast and a few incredible guests from around the Twin Cities. Join us to celebrate the joyous birth of Christ and also the Gremlins from the movie Gremlins. Bring your dollars to tip the divas, and to patronize the beautiful Bryant Lake Bowl. Dressing up is highly encouraged but not required. THEMED COSTUME CONTEST AT INTERMISSION!
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.
To Balance the Extremes: A Winter Solstice Ritual
Norwegian and Finnish traditional songs, dances, and rituals keep Winter Spirits from overtaking us. Grief, darkness, and depression are balanced with joy, clarity, and engagement. A Nordic balance of extremes for Winter Solstice.
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Kari Tauring and friends present an interactive ritual performance, a tradition at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. Music, movement, and poetry make for a compelling and interactive journey into darkness in order to find the light.
Winter in the Northlands always holds uncertainty. Below freezing temperatures and almost no sunlight create the need for community connection alongside the desire to isolate and sleep. Cold and dark come to us still. We have no more control than our ancestors did, though possibly better odds for survival in these modern times.
Some years are harder than others, and we have had a string of hard ones. This year there is an extra layer of grief and fear as we see human rights dissolve and friends and neighbors targeted for persecution. What did our ancestors do in the bleakest of times? What does it mean to balance with extremes?
Gathering in community is the most ancient way to hold one another as we learn to embrace the dark and cold without letting our light inside go out. Ancient runes for Ice, Need Fire, and Community hold these lessons. We explore them in breath and stretching. Traditional songs and dances hold ritual actions to appease these winter spirits. We sing and dance together to embody their wisdom. In darkness we hear the runos, the poems, the poets, who help us make meaning of things. The smell of evergreen lifts our spirits. We eat and drink and make toasts., remembering those who have passed, celebrating us here and now, summoning the joy of jultide to carry us through.
Kari Tauring and Carol Sersland share their Norwegian traditions in song and dance. Jack Tauring-Traxler and Cheré Suzette Bergeron bring musical texture to the dark night. Lynette Reini-Grandell and Morrey Nellis carry on the ancient tradition of Finnish poetry with wisdom words for today.
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Tickets are $12 in Advance / $14 at the Door. 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.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 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.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 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.
White Elephant Comedy Show
Comedians and Minnesota natives Anders Lee and Joe Cocozzello host the Twin Cities’ favorite annual holiday comedy show!
Featuring performers local and beyond, White Elephant is always an uproarious way to ring in that wonderful, slovenly week between Christmas and New Year’s.
Featuring:
Devohn Bland
Arman Shah
Nicky Kendall
Elizabeth Selin
Joey Phiefer
Karen Pickering
Hosted by Anders Lee & Joe Cocozzello
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.
an alleged Holiday Special
an alleged Theatre Company returns to Bryant-Lake Bowl this winter with their fourth annual ‘an alleged Holiday Special.’
The company of an alleged Theatre Company has learned that their dear friend, Santa Claus, has passed away. With Mrs. Claus in grieving, our heroes must find a way to bring Santa Claus from the dead, to save Christmas once again. Who can help them? Of course… Baby New Year.
This variety show will contain improv, sketch comedy, live music, and insane lore. Come one, come all, and help an alleged Theatre Company celebrate the holidays, and BRING BACK SANTA CLAUS!!!
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.
an alleged Holiday Special
an alleged Theatre Company returns to Bryant-Lake Bowl this winter with their fourth annual ‘an alleged Holiday Special.’
The company of an alleged Theatre Company has learned that their dear friend, Santa Claus, has passed away. With Mrs. Claus in grieving, our heroes must find a way to bring Santa Claus from the dead, to save Christmas once again. Who can help them? Of course… Baby New Year.
This variety show will contain improv, sketch comedy, live music, and insane lore. Come one, come all, and help an alleged Theatre Company celebrate the holidays, and BRING BACK SANTA CLAUS!!!
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.
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.
OASIS Laugh Battle at Bryant Lake Bowl
No scripts. No mercy. Just chaos, courage, and comedy.
The Twin Cities' fiercest BIPOC comedians face off in the rawest, rowdiest comedy show in the Twin Cities.
Every round, performers battle it out in lightning-fast improv games—and the audience calls the shots. You decide who stays, who slays, and who gets eliminated.
🔥 Come for the battle. Stay for the laughs.
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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.
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).
December 7 featuring:
Abra Staffin-Wiebe (she/her) loves optimistic science fiction, cheerful horror, and dark fantasy. Dozens of her short stories have appeared at publications including Tor.com, F&SF, Escape Pod, and Odyssey Magazine. She is also a professional narrator for Escape Artists Inc, speaks regularly at writing/SF conventions, and edits Aswiebe's Market List, a resource for writers. She lives in Minneapolis, where she wrangles her children, pets, and the mad scientist she keeps in the attic. When not writing or wrangling, she collects folk tales and photographs whatever stands still long enough to allow it.
Caly McMorrow (she/her) is a musician, artist, and software engineer based in St. Paul, MN, where she lives with her partner, dog, and collections of synthesizers and saxophones. Her work explores the merging of old and new, live and recorded, organic and electronic, and creator and audience. Her work has been supported by Jerome Foundation, The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.
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.
A Drinking Game Mn presents: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Inside a snowflake, like the one on your sleeve, there happened a story you must see to believe.
We are back y’all and we are bringing you the one, the only, he who puts the mean in green, the Grinch! A Drinking Game Mn will do a live stage reading of How the Grinch Stole Christmas where not only our cast will have drinking cues, but you, our audience will have them as well! Hear a bell ring and take a drink of whatever you like! Be it Alcohol, snow (that’s water babes), NA options, pop, tears… We recommend leaving the tears for the Grinch and grab yourself a beverage you’ll enjoy! Our cast will bring the magic to life from the green, mean machine himself to the holiday cheer and adventure!
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.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
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Tickets are $22 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.
Letters to Santa…With a Twist
“Letters to Santa…With a Twist”
One Woman. 10 Characters. Zero Filter.
Written by Janelle Ranek and Brenda Lucy.
Performed by Janelle Ranek.
Janelle Ranek is back with an ALL NEW round of Letters to Santa!
This year’s brilliantly twisted lineup includes Larry Dyc, still on his relentless quest to get on Shark Tank; Nora Pearl, author of “Don’t Touch the Raccoon” and other children’s books, visits the Vatican. Meet Candy, the campground host, armed with nonstop nature advice and pro tips for what not to wipe with in the woods.
Then there’s Martha Greenleaf —teeming with Toastmasters confidence and Dale Carnegie optimism — motivating everyone from prison inmates to preschool teachers. Mary and her Christmas story - Bethlehem, Demon Hunters and Cats. And as always, Gloria: the martini-swilling, crass old broad who doles out advice live.
The Star Tribune has called Ranek, “consistently and viciously funny.” This year, Ranek was featured on KSTP’s MNLive! with Meagan Newquist and Chris Egert. Check it out!
Co-created with her wife, Brenda Lucy, their fearless and unpredictable comedy style has earned a devoted following — fans who’ve made Letters to Santa their holiday tradition for more than 20 years. Make it yours, too!
Website
Facebook
TikTok
Instagram
Tickets are $22 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.
Monster Science First Thursdays: Between Two Godzillas
Reverend Matt is joined by one of the true towers, indeed, city-destroying kaiju, of Twin Cities Theater, Amber Bjork! Join them for “Between Two Godzillas,” Amber’s long-running talk show which you have absolutely heard of. Amber interviews the Reverend on the history of Monster Science, and its future (the book he’s writing!), and his best friends, favorite monsters, and much more! Learn all about monsters and Monster Science! With special guests of some sort maybe! Come and see!
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.
OASIS Laugh Battle at Bryant Lake Bowl
No scripts. No mercy. Just chaos, courage, and comedy.
The Twin Cities' fiercest BIPOC comedians face off in the rawest, rowdiest comedy show in the Twin Cities.
Every round, performers battle it out in lightning-fast improv games—and the audience calls the shots. You decide who stays, who slays, and who gets eliminated.
🔥 Come for the battle. Stay for the laughs.
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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.
Holidating: Christmas
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, Christmas!
Cast:
Sarah Arnold-Simondet
Chris Rodriguez
Justin Michael
Will Schroeder
Hannah Wydeven
Laura Berger
Keys:
Justin Nellis
Produced by JimJam Media (Philip Simondet & Sarah Arnold-Simondet)
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.
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.
Rain Or Shine: An Evening of Monologues on Days that began bad but got better
Local Comedian and Writer Devohn Bland introduces a group of artists of different backgrounds and practices to perform 10 minutes Monologues with a single prompt: a day that began bad but got better. This show is set up to create a space for folks to talk about very specific scenarios, in hopes that the personal can connect shared universal experiences. More than comedy, more than poetry, but mostly ending in something better.
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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.
A Very Carey Christmas Cabaret
Local chanteuse Nichole Carey returns to the Bryant Lake Bowl with another heartfelt and hilarious holiday cabaret!
Following in the footsteps of Dean Martin and Carol Burnett, this high-energy variety show features live music, burlesque, big laughs, surprise guests, and so much more. With only two performances to enjoy, don't miss your chance to kick off the season with the always entertaining Nichole Carey & Company!
Nichole Carey is a Twin Cities–based performer, writer, and producer best known for creating and starring in A Very Carey Christmas Cabaret, an annual sold-out tradition at the Bryant Lake Bowl since 2018. Her work blends humor, heart, and a touch of mischief, with performances spanning Minneapolis, Saint Paul, New York, and Chicago. She is the founder of Nichole Carey & Company and co-founder of Alchemy Arts with her spouse and collaborator, award-winning dancer and 2025 McKnight Fellow, Andrew Lester.
Musical Direction By: Blake Brauer
Also featuring the talents of: Max Besner, Scot Froelich, Doug Hooker, Megan Kim, Andrew Lester, Jeremy Motz, Boo Segersin, Nicole Wilder, and Lewis Youngren
With Choreography by Doug Hooker and Andrew Lester
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.
The Residency at BLB feat. Local News and For You, Anything!
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!
LOCAL NEWS: [Katie Knepler, Bret Meyer, Ari Newman, Ryan Klima, Chip Gehring]
An improvised newscast bringing you big stories from small towns. Brought to you by the Channel 12 news team of Beverly Cheddar, Kaleidoscope Jones, Bill Pesto, Rusty Skips, and Snort Hackman, we perform long form improvised local newscasts, complete with exciting intro music, interpersonal anchor drama, weather reports, sports updates, field correspondents, interviewees/eyewitnesses, and sometimes in-studio guests! This show is inspired by the local news I grew up watching in my mid-sized Central Illinois hometown, which featured silly-without-meaning-to-be-silly small town stories, over the top delivery, and awkward anchor banter. In our show, we deliver headlines, go on location to get the scoop, and DO let our personal lives affect our delivery of the news.
FOR YOU, ANYTHING!: [Meghan Wolff, Bhanu Shri, Angelique Lisboa, Chip Gehring, Kezia Germ, Meredith Howell, Liz Council, Karyn Wilson]
For You, Anything! plays around with traditional long form structures and answers the important question “what if we were just all cute and nice to each other”?
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.
A Very Carey Christmas Cabaret
Local chanteuse Nichole Carey returns to the Bryant Lake Bowl with another heartfelt and hilarious holiday cabaret!
Following in the footsteps of Dean Martin and Carol Burnett, this high-energy variety show features live music, burlesque, big laughs, surprise guests, and so much more. With only two performances to enjoy, don't miss your chance to kick off the season with the always entertaining Nichole Carey & Company!
Nichole Carey is a Twin Cities–based performer, writer, and producer best known for creating and starring in A Very Carey Christmas Cabaret, an annual sold-out tradition at the Bryant Lake Bowl since 2018. Her work blends humor, heart, and a touch of mischief, with performances spanning Minneapolis, Saint Paul, New York, and Chicago. She is the founder of Nichole Carey & Company and co-founder of Alchemy Arts with her spouse and collaborator, award-winning dancer and 2025 McKnight Fellow, Andrew Lester.
Musical Direction By: Blake Brauer
Also featuring the talents of: Max Besner, Scot Froelich, Doug Hooker, Megan Kim, Andrew Lester, Jeremy Motz, Boo Segersin, Nicole Wilder, and Lewis Youngren
With Choreography by Doug Hooker and Andrew Lester
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.
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.
Weird Sapphics
“The 80s: The greatest decade alive… unless you’re a dorky teenage lesbian, then it pretty much totally sucks!”
A campy sapphic comedy loosely based on the 1985 John Hughes classic “Weird Science.” Featuring a Frankenstein-ed beautiful woman, pure gay-ighties antics, and all the charm two loser high school lesbians can muster. Who’s ready to rock?!
CONTENT WARNINGS: homophobia/slurs, audience participation, flashing lights, fog, and gunshot
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.
Crescent Moon X Big Trouble
The collaborative project Crescent Moon x Big Trouble is back at it again.
Let me catch you up quick. Big Trouble is an instrumental band featuring many members of Heiruspecs. Crescent Moon is one of the greatest rappers to ever come out of Minnesota, famous for his work with Oddjobs and Kill the Vultures. Going back to about 2007 Sean McPherson from Big Trouble drove a minidisc and minidisc player full of new music over to Crescent Moon’s house and they quickly carved out a beautiful EP full of instrumentals that blended in with Crescent Moon’s powerful lyrics.
In his lyrics, Crescent Moon offers a wide spectrum of emotions. Need some shit talk? No problem. A drinking song that sounds like it was either written 100 years in the future or the past? Done. A workaday story told from a completely left field point of view? Check. That spectrum gives Big Trouble the chance to bring their own wide spectrum in the world of instrumentals: a barren minimalist landscape punctuated by washed out slide guitar? Yes, chef. A lopsided chordal pattern that turns on itself when you least expect it? Hold my coffee. A 5/4 fusion blast with chords that dart around the key center? So glad you asked, yes.
Together, Crescent Moon and Big Trouble carve their own path, finding what works for the unique stories they want to tell with little regard for what a band is supposed to do. They’ve released the aforementioned EP and a three-song single. The group shows no signs of slowing down or speeding up. The path and pace they’ve chosen has led them into almost two decades of collaboration built on finding the best ways to push themselves and their music where it needs to go.
For the Bryant-Lake Bowl show on Saturday, November 22, Crescent Moon x Big Trouble will be sharing some new songs they’ve been working on as well as songs from earlier releases. Between day jobs, children and travel, it’s a rare thing indeed to catch Crescent Moon and Big Trouble on stage together, and you won’t regret making time for it in your busy schedule.
Crescent Moon X Big Trouble Back at the Bryant-Lake Bowl
Tickets are $15. 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.
Weird Sapphics
“The 80s: The greatest decade alive… unless you’re a dorky teenage lesbian, then it pretty much totally sucks!”
A campy sapphic comedy loosely based on the 1985 John Hughes classic “Weird Science.” Featuring a Frankenstein-ed beautiful woman, pure gay-ighties antics, and all the charm two loser high school lesbians can muster. Who’s ready to rock?!
CONTENT WARNINGS: homophobia/slurs, audience participation, flashing lights, fog, and gunshot
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.
The Residency at BLB feat. Local News and For You, Anything!
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!
LOCAL NEWS: [Katie Knepler, Bret Meyer, Ari Newman, Ryan Klima, Chip Gehring]
An improvised newscast bringing you big stories from small towns. Brought to you by the Channel 12 news team of Beverly Cheddar, Kaleidoscope Jones, Bill Pesto, Rusty Skips, and Snort Hackman, we perform long form improvised local newscasts, complete with exciting intro music, interpersonal anchor drama, weather reports, sports updates, field correspondents, interviewees/eyewitnesses, and sometimes in-studio guests! This show is inspired by the local news I grew up watching in my mid-sized Central Illinois hometown, which featured silly-without-meaning-to-be-silly small town stories, over the top delivery, and awkward anchor banter. In our show, we deliver headlines, go on location to get the scoop, and DO let our personal lives affect our delivery of the news.
FOR YOU, ANYTHING!: [Meghan Wolff, Bhanu Shri, Angelique Lisboa, Chip Gehring, Kezia Germ, Meredith Howell, Liz Council, Karyn Wilson]
For You, Anything! plays around with traditional long form structures and answers the important question “what if we were just all cute and nice to each other”?
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.
Weird Sapphics
“The 80s: The greatest decade alive… unless you’re a dorky teenage lesbian, then it pretty much totally sucks!”
A campy sapphic comedy loosely based on the 1985 John Hughes classic “Weird Science.” Featuring a Frankenstein-ed beautiful woman, pure gay-ighties antics, and all the charm two loser high school lesbians can muster. Who’s ready to rock?!
CONTENT WARNINGS: homophobia/slurs, audience participation, flashing lights, fog, and gunshot
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.
Weird Sapphics
“The 80s: The greatest decade alive… unless you’re a dorky teenage lesbian, then it pretty much totally sucks!”
A campy sapphic comedy loosely based on the 1985 John Hughes classic “Weird Science.” Featuring a Frankenstein-ed beautiful woman, pure gay-ighties antics, and all the charm two loser high school lesbians can muster. Who’s ready to rock?!
CONTENT WARNINGS: homophobia/slurs, audience participation, flashing lights, fog, and gunshot
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.
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!
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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.
Madde Gibba presents "One Wild & Precious Life"
Madde Gibba keeps trying over and over again. A new job, a new man, a new hair color, but nothing has ever felt quite right. What happens when you’ve been so busy trying on so many different versions of a life, that you’ve not gotten around to starting the one you thought you should be living?
A brand new one-woman storytelling show by Madde Gibba. Stories of adventure, love, bites, and bits.
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.
PEEPHOLE! presents: GRINDHAUS, a drag and burlesque tribute to grindhouse cinema
From the cast that brought you DAVID LYNCH DRAG SHOW and MIDNIGHT MADNESS
PEEPHOLE! presents:
GRINDHAUS
a drag and burlesque tribute to grindhouse cinema
Featuring the talents of:
Omnipotent Pain
melancholy sometimes
Auntie Splash
Pistachio Creampie
Cerberus the Hound
Heda Thrasher
Marquis Fleur de Lis
Hosted by Mink Hole
Bring your dollars to tip the divas, and to patronize the beautiful Bryant Lake Bowl. Dressing up is highly encouraged but not required.
GRINDHOUSE THEMED COSTUME CONTEST AT INTERMISSION!
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.
Babes Out
Buckle up, Babes...There's been a murder on the Babe Train Express. Watch out as world renowned detectives work with (and sometimes against) the babes as they discover mysterious deaths and sift through a web of lies and red herrings to uncover the truth.
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.
The Residency at BLB feat. Local News and For You, Anything!
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!
LOCAL NEWS: [Katie Knepler, Bret Meyer, Ari Newman, Ryan Klima, Chip Gehring]
An improvised newscast bringing you big stories from small towns. Brought to you by the Channel 12 news team of Beverly Cheddar, Kaleidoscope Jones, Bill Pesto, Rusty Skips, and Snort Hackman, we perform long form improvised local newscasts, complete with exciting intro music, interpersonal anchor drama, weather reports, sports updates, field correspondents, interviewees/eyewitnesses, and sometimes in-studio guests! This show is inspired by the local news I grew up watching in my mid-sized Central Illinois hometown, which featured silly-without-meaning-to-be-silly small town stories, over the top delivery, and awkward anchor banter. In our show, we deliver headlines, go on location to get the scoop, and DO let our personal lives affect our delivery of the news.
FOR YOU, ANYTHING!: [Meghan Wolff, Bhanu Shri, Angelique Lisboa, Chip Gehring, Kezia Germ, Meredith Howell, Liz Council, Karyn Wilson]
For You, Anything! plays around with traditional long form structures and answers the important question “what if we were just all cute and nice to each other”?
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.
Babes Out
Buckle up, Babes...There's been a murder on the Babe Train Express. Watch out as world renowned detectives work with (and sometimes against) the babes as they discover mysterious deaths and sift through a web of lies and red herrings to uncover the truth.
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.
Babes Out
Buckle up, Babes...There's been a murder on the Babe Train Express. Watch out as world renowned detectives work with (and sometimes against) the babes as they discover mysterious deaths and sift through a web of lies and red herrings to uncover the truth.
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.
I Wrote This For You
Little valentines for one another!
Your favorite performers, songwriters, actors, and playwrights, writing things for their favorite performers, songwriters, actors, and playwrights. And then, it gets performed.
Featuring work by Rachel Buhman, Katy Kessler, Alsa Bruno, Leslie Vincent, Remi Chacon, and Bee Davis and more!
Hosted by local performer and improviser Jen Scott ("Clown Funeral" at the MN Fringe, "Bring Your Kids", Penny and the Bandits), I Wrote This For You is a collection of shiny new work, celebrating some of our favorite local performers.
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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.
Buffalo Show
For our end of the year show the winds are blowing in from the west, we are excited to welcome three artists from Pine Ridge, Joe Pulliam, Scotti Clifford and Welby June! Joining local stars Al Gross, Sal IV and the Buffalo Weavers!
Tickets are $8 in Advance / $10 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.