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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!
Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour
A live reading series featuring new 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 because we need to be thinking of the future as a society, for a multitude of reasons: we need to be seeing and talking about ourselves and each other in new ways- seeing people of color, women, queer folks, and immigrants in the future- showing folks in positions of power, showing different ways of leading, etc. Society also needs to think about the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also to envision new ways of doing things (or imagining old ways of doing things in the future).
June 1, 2025 featuring:
Khary Jackson is a writer, dancer and musician. Khary has been a recipient of generous grants, including the 2019 Jerome Artist Fellowship and 2022 McKnight Fellowship in Writing. Khary's poetry book, Any Psalm You Want, was published with Write Bloody Publishing in the spring of 2013.
Jasmine (Jazz) Castañeda celebrates and draws upon her Trinidadian, Mexican, and Indigenous multicultural background to fuel her storytelling. Her work highlights the complexities and nuances of humanity and nature to inspire reflection and promote the connection between self and others.
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.
Holidating: Father's Day
An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday!
If you don’t come to see Holidating, we’ll turn this car around right now! Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round. Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love featuring that month's holiday.
Grab your tissues and your laugh buckets, holiday lovers!
Produced By: Sarah Arnold-Simondet & Philip Simondet
Music Director: Daniel Goldschmidt
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.
Insurgent Transmissions: Queer Cinema for Palestine
Insurgent Transmissions: A Palestine Film Series presents monthly screenings on the first Wednesday of each month at Bryant Lake Bowl. Join us on June 4, 2025 at 7pm for a 90 minute program of short films, curated by Queer Cinema for Palestine. This program is co-presented with Educators for Justice in Palestine.
ABOUT QCP
Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) announces No Pride in Genocide, a global film event, co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and 50+ partners in 25 countries, from China to Ecuador. The third edition of QCP invites grassroots, solidarity and arts organizations across the world to host screenings of a stellar collectively curated short film program throughout the month of June 2025.
This year’s program focuses on the work of queer, Palestinian, and allied artists, across locales, in historic Palestine and the diaspora, identities, lengths, styles and genres (doc-hybrid, experimental, fiction, and animation) to highlight art’s position in resistance and the struggle for liberation.
Israel continues to attempt to instrumentalize our identities as queer and trans people to justify its genocide against Palestinians, including murdering, blackmailing, and imprisoning queer and trans Palestinians. Accordingly, this festival will take place during June 2025, the month that marks Pride in many countries worldwide. We do so to continue our refusal of Israel’s pinkwashing.
FILMS IN PROGRAM:
Abgad Hawaz, Robin Riad, 1min, Canada (2024)
Out of Gaza, Seza Tiyara Selen, Jannis Osterburg, 9min, Germany (2025)
Blood Like Water, Dima Hamdan, 14min, Palestine (2023)
a tangled web drowning in honey, Tara Hakim & Hannah Hull, 9min, Canada (2023)
Aliens in Beirut, Raghed Charabaty, 16min, Lebanon, Canada (2025)
Palcorecore, Dana Dawud, 8min, Internet footage from Palestine (2023)
I never promised you a Jasmine Garden, Teyama AlKamli, 20min, Canada (2023)
Don’t take my joy away, Omar Gabriel, 7min, Lebanon (2024)
This shorts program is followed by a pre-recorded Q+A with featured filmmakers.
ABOUT INSURGENT TRANSMISSIONS
Insurgent Transmissions is a film series highlighting the varied Palestinian experience. Made by contemporary Palestinian makers, the films depict the many ways that Palestinians resist occupation in their daily lives and filmmaking practices. Beginning with Annemarie Jacir’s touching family drama, Wajib, the programming will unfold as a series of transmissions: Jacir chooses the second film, and each subsequent filmmaker will select the next film in the series. The films in Insurgent Transmissions highlight the works of contemporary Palestinian filmmakers, amplifying their voices through their films and the films they see as most urgent in this moment of cultural erasure and genocide.
This monthly series is presented by Mizna monthly at Bryant Lake Bowl. Online tickets are $10, tickets at the door are sliding scale $5–15. Additional opportunities to support urgent grassroots fundraisers in Gaza will be available at the screening.
ACCESSIBILITY:
To make these events accessible, masks are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Unfortunately we cannot require masks because Bryant Lake Bowl serves food and drinks inside the screening space. All films will have English subtitles.
Mizna
Queer Cinema for Palestine
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $5 - $15 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.
Monster Science First Thursdays: Parables for Paranoiacs
Some of the monsters are not misshapen horrors - at least not all the time. Some of the monsters do not announce themselves. Some of the monsters walk among us. They surround us unseen, they become us, they replace us. From myths like doppelgangers and fetches, to movies like “The Thing,” “Us,” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” come explore the most insidious of horrors with local theater legend Tim Uren, director of Ghoulish Delights! Plus Reverend Matt’s top-shelf comedy jokes!
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.
Food
We began with "Fluid," followed by "Fear," "Father," "Favorite," "Family," "Female," "First" and "Fiction." In its ninth annual installment, Table Salt embraces the word on everyone’s mind in 2025: "Food!" Food for thought? Can music really be the food of love? Is life really too short to eat bad food? Come hear some of the Twin Cities' best storytellers deliver their pithy insights on this universal subject!
Featuring Table Salt favorites Jim Robinson, Julie Grover McArdle, Gennae Falconer, Kelly Kohlbacher, Heather Meyer, Alexis Camille, Fred Cheng, Martha Pettee, Jen Scott, Dennis Curley and more!
Proceeds to benefit the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, whose mission since 1983 is to end child abuse and neglect and create strong, healthy families.
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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.
The Residency at BLB feat. No Fear Shakesqueer & The Pallor of Endless Corridors
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!"
June’s shows featuring No Fear Shakesqueer & The Pallor of Endless Corridors
NO FEAR SHAKESQUEER: Improvised queer romantic comedies in the style of Shakespeare!
THE PALLOR OF ENDLESS CORRIDORS: Behold the Pallor of Endless Corridors. There is no past, no future, only Shadow. Shadows of love, of madness, of despair. A Gothic Improvisation that will make you say - "What did I just watch?"
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
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.
Food
We began with "Fluid," followed by "Fear," "Father," "Favorite," "Family," "Female," "First" and "Fiction." In its ninth annual installment, Table Salt embraces the word on everyone’s mind in 2025: "Food!" Food for thought? Can music really be the food of love? Is life really too short to eat bad food? Come hear some of the Twin Cities' best storytellers deliver their pithy insights on this universal subject!
Featuring Table Salt favorites Jim Robinson, Julie Grover McArdle, Gennae Falconer, Kelly Kohlbacher, Heather Meyer, Alexis Camille, Fred Cheng, Martha Pettee, Jen Scott, Dennis Curley and more!
Proceeds to benefit the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, whose mission since 1983 is to end child abuse and neglect and create strong, healthy families.
Website
Facebook Page
Facebook Event
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.
A Drinking Game MN Presents: How To Train Your Dragon
Raise your tankards and ready your crew, A Drinking Game MN is heading into the skies for a live stage reading of How to Train Your Dragon! We’re inviting you to come along for the adventure!
Join our fearless cast of Vikings as they bring Berk to life in a live stage reading with epic voices, heroic hijinks, and yes — DRINKING CUES fit for a mead hall! Every clang of the bell means it’s your turn to sip, or toast to the old gods with your favorite beverage. Ale, cider, soda, the salty tears of your enemies — choose wisely, brave soul!
Whether you wield a mighty horn of mead or a humble goblet of juice, you’ll be in for a night of laughs, chaos and adventure. Don’t worry about pre-gaming like a berserker — we’ve got plenty of chances for you to drink throughout this dragon sized saga.
Adventure awaits! Let’s see some dragons fly!
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.
Food
We began with "Fluid," followed by "Fear," "Father," "Favorite," "Family," "Female," "First" and "Fiction." In its ninth annual installment, Table Salt embraces the word on everyone’s mind in 2025: "Food!" Food for thought? Can music really be the food of love? Is life really too short to eat bad food? Come hear some of the Twin Cities' best storytellers deliver their pithy insights on this universal subject!
Featuring Table Salt favorites Jim Robinson, Julie Grover McArdle, Gennae Falconer, Kelly Kohlbacher, Heather Meyer, Alexis Camille, Fred Cheng, Martha Pettee, Jen Scott, Dennis Curley and more!
Proceeds to benefit the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, whose mission since 1983 is to end child abuse and neglect and create strong, healthy families.
Website
Facebook Page
Facebook Event
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.
Caroline Rose
“I’m not a McDonald’s hamburger,” says Rose, an artist who has become known for being somewhat of an impish indie rebel, championing independent music and creative reinvention. “I’m just trying to make music diverse enough that AI can’t reproduce it.”
Rose’s albums blend psychobilly, pop, shoegaze, alt-country, folk, electronic and experimental. They infuse satire, perspective-hopping, film-inspired narrative and an array of storytelling devices that transport listeners straight into Rose’s self-described “weird buffet” of a mind.
On year of the slug, released February 7, 2025, there is no pretense, no bells or whistles, no heavy production.“Sometimes it’s nice to have a pearl before it’s polished,” Rose says. Recorded in Garageband from a phone, slug offers quality songs in their rawest form, straight to the listener, no middleman.
Rose will tour year of the slug in a series of ‘Evening With’ solo performances in exclusively independent venues carefully chosen to avoid large service fees. “These places are the working class of the touring industry. They’re the ones hit hardest by the corporations hoarding all the money at the top and yet they still find a way to keep their doors open. I cut my teeth in these small clubs. I’m really grateful for them.”
year of the slug will only be offered on Bandcamp and as a limited edition physical release. It will not be available on streaming platforms.
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 7pm. 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.
Caroline Rose
“I’m not a McDonald’s hamburger,” says Rose, an artist who has become known for being somewhat of an impish indie rebel, championing independent music and creative reinvention. “I’m just trying to make music diverse enough that AI can’t reproduce it.”
Rose’s albums blend psychobilly, pop, shoegaze, alt-country, folk, electronic and experimental. They infuse satire, perspective-hopping, film-inspired narrative and an array of storytelling devices that transport listeners straight into Rose’s self-described “weird buffet” of a mind.
On year of the slug, released February 7, 2025, there is no pretense, no bells or whistles, no heavy production.“Sometimes it’s nice to have a pearl before it’s polished,” Rose says. Recorded in Garageband from a phone, slug offers quality songs in their rawest form, straight to the listener, no middleman.
Rose will tour year of the slug in a series of ‘Evening With’ solo performances in exclusively independent venues carefully chosen to avoid large service fees. “These places are the working class of the touring industry. They’re the ones hit hardest by the corporations hoarding all the money at the top and yet they still find a way to keep their doors open. I cut my teeth in these small clubs. I’m really grateful for them.”
year of the slug will only be offered on Bandcamp and as a limited edition physical release. It will not be available on streaming platforms.
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 7pm. 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.
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!
Hosted by Josh Carson and Aisha Ragheb and featuring our June fighters: Devohn Bland, Lauren Anderson and Caleb McEwen!
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.
Glitter & Be Gay – in the USA
Mistress Ginger storms the castle in a star-spangled swirl of sequins and song, summoning all the fairies to come out and play – yes, to glitter and be gay, in the USA. With maestro Franco Holder at the piano, Broadway and Pride collide in a dazzling cabaret celebration. Ginger ransacks the musical theatre repertoire for its most liberating, camp-tastic, and fabulously queer treasures – stoking your hope, melting your butter, and leaving you glowing in the joy of being perfectly, radically you.
Mistress Ginger is a Juilliard-trained performer based in the Twin Cities. With a passion for storytelling through song, she has brought her cabaret magic to stages across the Twin Cities. And she can cook, too! Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks: Everyday Vegan Food for Everyone, was published in 2014. To learn more, visit mistressginger.com.
“The fabulous Mistress Ginger performed rousing, live vocal cabaret numbers between dances — and even during them… Her comedic timing and quick-wit were on full display, and her audience was enraptured… Her nuanced facial expression work while singing in a Broadway-ready tone? Masterful… It was a campy and vampy delight.” —Twin Cities Gay Scene
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Tickets are $18 in Advance / $22 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. No Fear Shakesqueer & The Pallor of Endless Corridors
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!"
June’s shows featuring No Fear Shakesqueer & The Pallor of Endless Corridors
NO FEAR SHAKESQUEER: Improvised queer romantic comedies in the style of Shakespeare!
THE PALLOR OF ENDLESS CORRIDORS: Behold the Pallor of Endless Corridors. There is no past, no future, only Shadow. Shadows of love, of madness, of despair. A Gothic Improvisation that will make you say - "What did I just watch?"
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
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.
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.
Glitter & Be Gay – in the USA
Mistress Ginger storms the castle in a star-spangled swirl of sequins and song, summoning all the fairies to come out and play – yes, to glitter and be gay, in the USA. With maestro Franco Holder at the piano, Broadway and Pride collide in a dazzling cabaret celebration. Ginger ransacks the musical theatre repertoire for its most liberating, camp-tastic, and fabulously queer treasures – stoking your hope, melting your butter, and leaving you glowing in the joy of being perfectly, radically you.
Mistress Ginger is a Juilliard-trained performer based in the Twin Cities. With a passion for storytelling through song, she has brought her cabaret magic to stages across the Twin Cities. And she can cook, too! Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks: Everyday Vegan Food for Everyone, was published in 2014. To learn more, visit mistressginger.com.
“The fabulous Mistress Ginger performed rousing, live vocal cabaret numbers between dances — and even during them… Her comedic timing and quick-wit were on full display, and her audience was enraptured… Her nuanced facial expression work while singing in a Broadway-ready tone? Masterful… It was a campy and vampy delight.” —Twin Cities Gay Scene
Website
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube
Tickets are $18 in Advance / $22 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.
Buffalo Show Two Spirit Show
Buffalo Show presents Two Spirit Buffalo for PRIDE curated by Nick Metcalf with Mario McMillan, Aragidi, Amy Arddnt, Sophi Le Piff, Tyra Payer, and Trevvy B.
Jae Paris Boyd is an enrolled member of Mille Tribe of Ojibwe who has graced our local stages sharing her gifts as a stage performance artist. Jae has recently graced the stage of the Gay 90's LaFemme Lounge.
arágidi is a multidisciplinary drag artist from the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. their work explores grief, euphoria, community, and satire through the use of historic speeches and niche popular culture. They can be found on cast at Booked at the Saloon or doing makeup for brides across the state of Minnesota.
Nick Metcalf is Sicangu Oyate – Burnt Thigh People – Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Nick has lived in the Twin Cities for 30 years where they've made a life filled with lots of friends, family, and community. Nick is a proud Parent and Grandparent. Nick is a Poet and Writer.
Mario McMillan is Puerto Rican Drag King performer who is new to the scene and is discovering it. Mario has performed at the Saloon's Hot Pink -WERK. Mario competed in the recent pageant – Mister Twin Cities Black Pride 2024. Mario is an emergent artist and loves to entertain.
Sophie Le Piff is a proud enrolled Ojibwe from the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. She has been performing for seven years in shows in Fargo, Two Spirit shows on his reservation and in Minneapolis for the past three years, where she is a troupe member in Transcendence Cabaret.
Tyra Payer is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota, where they grew up. Tyra is a Two-Spirit poet and weaves culture, queerness, and dreams into their writing. Really, they just want to spend time in their garden, write love letters to the communities they come from, and share food with loved ones. They live in Saint Paul with their partner, cats and chickens.
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.
Adorable
True Stories. Pretend People. Real Awkward. Adorable is a Twin Cities-based improv duo, featuring veteran performers Butch Roy and Jen Scott. Formed in 2008, Adorable digs into focus on grounded relationships and the funny: slow burning, often ridiculous, sometimes sweet.
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Tickets are $10. 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.
Minne-Mélange
We're Minne-Melange, a brand new variety show in the Twin Cities. Each month, we're bringing you a taste of our amazingly talented performing arts scene. You might see stand-up, improv comedy, singing, dancing, spoken-word poetry, and many other spectacular acts. And it changes every month!
We're like a creativity smorgasbord. An artistic sampler platter. A charcuterie board of delicious talent. Come eat your fill, and we're sure you'll leave with an appetite for more!
Tickets are $15. 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.
The Residency at BLB feat. No Fear Shakesqueer & The Pallor of Endless Corridors
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!"
June’s shows featuring No Fear Shakesqueer & The Pallor of Endless Corridors
NO FEAR SHAKESQUEER: Improvised queer romantic comedies in the style of Shakespeare!
THE PALLOR OF ENDLESS CORRIDORS: Behold the Pallor of Endless Corridors. There is no past, no future, only Shadow. Shadows of love, of madness, of despair. A Gothic Improvisation that will make you say - "What did I just watch?"
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
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.
3rd Eye LIVE!
Hold onto your chakras for the most chaotic, magical, and ridiculously funny night of mediumship that Minneapolis has ever seen. Local comedian and writer Alicia Kismet serves questions--and hot takes-- from the audience to the crew from 3rd Eye Psychic Salon. No question is off limits, just be prepared to be read to filth in a night where the mystical meets the comical! It’s a one-of-a-kind mix of insight, divination, and laughter that’ll leave you amazed, entertained, and possibly questioning your life choices (in the best way).
Whether its your first time experiencing a tarot reading, or are a long time tarot enthusiast, a skeptic or a believer, you won’t want to miss Alicia Kismet sweeping onto the stage, commanding the room with her uncanny charm and cosmic wit, flanked by the 3rd Eye Psychic Salon team. The night unfolds in a swirl of tarot cards and wildly specific audience insights that’ll have you questioning everything (except how much fun you’re having). With every quip and eerily accurate prediction, the line between comedy and clairvoyance blurs. Bring your questions and your curiosity—this is part stand-up, part psychic phenomena, and 100% unforgettable.
What our clients are saying:
“They are like the Avengers of the local psychic scene!”
“Its giving Barbie-core vibes”
“How did they know that?”
“They totally called me out on my Sh**!”
“The Real Deal!”
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.
Catacomb Cinema Club
Join the goblins and ghouls who create your favorite annual spooky attraction, The Haunted Basement, as they open the crypt door and invite you in for an evening of fun and frights. Gather your squad and see if you can be the Final Girl for our horror film trivia (each month we have a terrifyingly fun new theme). Top teams win prizes! Then settle back and watch a horror film, curated each month by the weird little monsters of Catacomb Collective. Come dressed on theme and compete for the best costume prize. Be sure to check out hauntedbasement.org for this months theme and film!
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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.
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.
Tubthumping Thursdays
We'll be singing, when we're winning. Join us with a whiskey drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink, or a cider drink, any kind of drink. And enjoy a comedy variety show. Each monthly Thursday show will feature unique comedy from short/long form improv groups, comedians, and/or comedy sketches.
Comedy for the good times, and comedy for the better times.
Tickets are $12. Doors open 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.
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.
Squirrel Flower + Products Band
The music Ella Williams makes as Squirrel Flower has always communicated a strong sense of place. Her self-released debut EP, 2015’s early winter songs from middle america, was written during her first year living in Iowa, where the winter months make those of her hometown, Boston, seem quaint by comparison. Since that first offering, Squirrel Flower amassed a fanbase beyond the Boston DIY scene and has released two more EPs and two full-lengths. The most recent, Planet (i), was laden with climate anxiety, while the subsequent Planet EP marked an important turning point in Williams’ prolific career; the collection of demos was the first self-produced material she’d released in some time. With a renewed confidence as a producer, she helmed her new album Tomorrow’s Fire at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville alongside storied engineer Alex Farrar.
Before Tomorrow’s Fire, Squirrel Flower might’ve been labeled something like “indie folk,” but this is a rock record, made to be played loud. As if to signal this shift, the album opens with the soaring “i don’t use a trash can,” a re-imagining of the first ever Squirrel Flower song. Williams returns to her past to demonstrate her growth as an artist and to nod to those early shows, when her voice, looped and minimalistic, had the power to silence a room. Lead singles “Full Time Job” and “When a Plant is Dying,” narrate the universal desperation that comes with living as an artist and pushing up against a world where that’s a challenging thing to be. The frustration in Williams’ lyrics is echoed by the music’s uninhibited, ferocious production. “There must be more to life/ Than being on time,” she sings on the latter’s towering chorus. Lyrics like that one are fated to become anthemic, and Tomorrow’s Fire overflows with them. “Doing my best is a full time job/ But it doesn’t pay the rent” Williams sings on “Full Time Job” over careening feedback, her steady delivery imposing order over a song that is, at its heart, about a loss of control.
Closing track “Finally Rain” speaks to the ambiguity of being a young person staring down climate catastrophe. The last verse is an homage to Williams’ relationship with her loved ones — ‘We won’t grow up.’ A stark realization, but also a manifesto. To be resolutely committed to a life of not ‘growing up,’ not losing our wonder while we’re still here.
Products Band is a guitar band from Minneapolis. Stretching out into the broader world of left-field rock music, the band draws inspiration from late-'70s/early '80s melodic punk/post-punk/new wave/no wave/art-pop as well as modern iterations of this sound. Formed in early 2018, the group has toured the US multiple times and acted as support for groups like Gang of Four, Deerhoof, Dehd, Squirrel Flower, Gustaf, and Shopping.
Tickets are $20 in Advance / $23 at the Door. Doors open at 7pm. 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.
Squirrel Flower + Bugsy
The music Ella Williams makes as Squirrel Flower has always communicated a strong sense of place. Her self-released debut EP, 2015’s early winter songs from middle america, was written during her first year living in Iowa, where the winter months make those of her hometown, Boston, seem quaint by comparison. Since that first offering, Squirrel Flower amassed a fanbase beyond the Boston DIY scene and has released two more EPs and two full-lengths. The most recent, Planet (i), was laden with climate anxiety, while the subsequent Planet EP marked an important turning point in Williams’ prolific career; the collection of demos was the first self-produced material she’d released in some time. With a renewed confidence as a producer, she helmed her new album Tomorrow’s Fire at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville alongside storied engineer Alex Farrar.
Before Tomorrow’s Fire, Squirrel Flower might’ve been labeled something like “indie folk,” but this is a rock record, made to be played loud. As if to signal this shift, the album opens with the soaring “i don’t use a trash can,” a re-imagining of the first ever Squirrel Flower song. Williams returns to her past to demonstrate her growth as an artist and to nod to those early shows, when her voice, looped and minimalistic, had the power to silence a room. Lead singles “Full Time Job” and “When a Plant is Dying,” narrate the universal desperation that comes with living as an artist and pushing up against a world where that’s a challenging thing to be. The frustration in Williams’ lyrics is echoed by the music’s uninhibited, ferocious production. “There must be more to life/ Than being on time,” she sings on the latter’s towering chorus. Lyrics like that one are fated to become anthemic, and Tomorrow’s Fire overflows with them. “Doing my best is a full time job/ But it doesn’t pay the rent” Williams sings on “Full Time Job” over careening feedback, her steady delivery imposing order over a song that is, at its heart, about a loss of control.
Closing track “Finally Rain” speaks to the ambiguity of being a young person staring down climate catastrophe. The last verse is an homage to Williams’ relationship with her loved ones — ‘We won’t grow up.’ A stark realization, but also a manifesto. To be resolutely committed to a life of not ‘growing up,’ not losing our wonder while we’re still here.
Songversations: we have been told beauty is on the inside
Songversations invite you back into the woods to tell more stories, sing more songs, burn more fairy tales and shatter the “mirror, mirrors on the wall” that tell us what we should look like and how we should live. We have been told beauty is on the inside but we think the outside is pretty gorgeous, too. Come as you are, order some nachos, we think you’re perfect just as you are.
Songversations: Shanan + Rhiannon weave Songs, Stories + Spells into a multi-genre ceremonial cabaret
We Have Been Told We Dissent, We Resist, We are Burned
Join us
Bios
Shanan Custer is a theater maker, writer, director and improviser who has worked with the Brave New Workshop, DalekoArts, Interact, Strike Theater, Theatre Pro Rata, HUGE Improv Theater, Special When Lit, The Mystery Café, Mu Performing Arts, Full Circle Theater, Park Square Theatre, Theater in the Round and many others. Currently, Shanan is working with Unlabeled Theatre Company, a new company that creates inclusive theatre performances, featuring theatre artists with cognitive and/or physical disabilities or who are neurodivergent. She is also part of the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society, which you can also see at the BLB! When she’s not onstage she is teaching theater and acting at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
Rhiannon Fiskradatz is a witchy, feminist, multidisciplinary storyteller with a creative practice that spans theatre, music, puppetry, dance, craft & visual art. She writes & performs her own music as MaMa Faerie, and last year turned her debut solo album into an experiential rock opera performed at the MN Fringe Festival. She covers a multitude of genres as a vocalist with The Argyle Street Trio & alt rock band 10 Items Or Fewer. In her capacity as a costume & accessory designer, she has worked with more than fifty professional, amateur and educational organizations. She has an Upper Midwest Emmy, has been featured in Beadwork magazine and was awarded the "Spirit Of Powderhorn" at the Powderhorn Art Fair. Find her debut MaMa Faerie album, Anthems for the Apocalypse, on all the platforms!
Songversations Facebook Page
Songversations Instagram Page
Rhiannon’s music Insta
Shanan’s Insta
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.
The Residency at BLB feat. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
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!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeef are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
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.
Songversations: we have been told beauty is on the inside
Songversations invite you back into the woods to tell more stories, sing more songs, burn more fairy tales and shatter the “mirror, mirrors on the wall” that tell us what we should look like and how we should live. We have been told beauty is on the inside but we think the outside is pretty gorgeous, too. Come as you are, order some nachos, we think you’re perfect just as you are.
Songversations: Shanan + Rhiannon weave Songs, Stories + Spells into a multi-genre ceremonial cabaret
We Have Been Told We Dissent, We Resist, We are Burned
Join us
Bios
Shanan Custer is a theater maker, writer, director and improviser who has worked with the Brave New Workshop, DalekoArts, Interact, Strike Theater, Theatre Pro Rata, HUGE Improv Theater, Special When Lit, The Mystery Café, Mu Performing Arts, Full Circle Theater, Park Square Theatre, Theater in the Round and many others. Currently, Shanan is working with Unlabeled Theatre Company, a new company that creates inclusive theatre performances, featuring theatre artists with cognitive and/or physical disabilities or who are neurodivergent. She is also part of the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society, which you can also see at the BLB! When she’s not onstage she is teaching theater and acting at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
Rhiannon Fiskradatz is a witchy, feminist, multidisciplinary storyteller with a creative practice that spans theatre, music, puppetry, dance, craft & visual art. She writes & performs her own music as MaMa Faerie, and last year turned her debut solo album into an experiential rock opera performed at the MN Fringe Festival. She covers a multitude of genres as a vocalist with The Argyle Street Trio & alt rock band 10 Items Or Fewer. In her capacity as a costume & accessory designer, she has worked with more than fifty professional, amateur and educational organizations. She has an Upper Midwest Emmy, has been featured in Beadwork magazine and was awarded the "Spirit Of Powderhorn" at the Powderhorn Art Fair. Find her debut MaMa Faerie album, Anthems for the Apocalypse, on all the platforms!
Songversations Facebook Page
Songversations Instagram Page
Rhiannon’s music Insta
Shanan’s Insta
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.
Mother Coyote - When the War Comes EP Release Show with special guest Dan Lawonn
Singer-songwriter Andriana Lehr is rebirthing herself with a new moniker - Mother Coyote - and a new set of songs written and informed by the immense changes, both personal and collective, experienced in recent years. Created with jack-of-all-trades producer Andy Thompson (Dessa, Semisonic, Belle and Sebastian) over the course of the last several years, When The War Comes, the first EP bearing the Mother Coyote name, combines Lehr’s detailed eye for universal storytelling with monumental, brooding soundscapes built specifically for these trying times. Featuring an epic band of musicians to fill out the songs and take these arrangements to new heights, and the addition of strings, horns, and percussion creates the perfect playground for Lehr’s deeply personal lyrics. Inspired by the transition into motherhood and a deep journey into healing, her songs balance themes of birth, death, and the seemingly endless spiral of soul searching that fills the spaces in between. With When The War Comes, Mother Coyote has brought forward a raw truth that shines a light in the darkness for us all to look toward.
This show will feature an expanded repertoire of unreleased Mother Coyote songs, as well as the tracks featured on 'When the War Comes' as they were written, with solo voice and piano, with extra textures added by guitar and cello player, Dan Lawonn, who was also featured on the EP and will open the show.
“an ethereal Enya on steroids.” - John Apice, Americana Highways
“The music is arranged smartly with enough diversity to be of interest. “The Great Unknown” is the most sensitive — with horns blaring & leading to tender piano notes to the end. Quite impressive.” - John Apice, Americana Highways
“the music of Mother Coyote embodies a certain humanity and universal connection shared between all who care to seek it out within themselves.” - Digital Wax
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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.
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.
Catacomb Cinema Club
Join the goblins and ghouls who create your favorite annual spooky attraction, The Haunted Basement, as they open the crypt door and invite you in for an evening of fun and frights. Gather your squad and see if you can be the Final Girl for our horror film trivia (each month we have a terrifyingly fun new theme). Top teams win prizes! Then settle back and watch a horror film, curated each month by the weird little monsters of Catacomb Collective. Come dressed on theme and compete for the best costume prize. Be sure to check out hauntedbasement.org for this months theme and film!
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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.
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.
Swords & Sorcery: The Improvised Fantasy Campaign
Sharpen your sword, brandish your wits, and step with us into a realm of fantasy and adventure where fate is decided by the roll of actual 20-sided dice. In this award-winning improvised fantasy campaign, The Bearded Company will tell you a tale you won't soon forget. Each show will be an epic story in the lives of legendary adventurers. Dragons will be slain, dungeons will be explored and, nerd or not, there’s something for everyone.
Featuring:
Allen Voigt (Game Master)
Maria Bartholdi
MJ Matheson
Tyler Mills
Joe Rapp
Anna Tobin
Lucas Vonasek
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Bluesky
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. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
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!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeef are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
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.
Swords & Sorcery: The Improvised Fantasy Campaign
Sharpen your sword, brandish your wits, and step with us into a realm of fantasy and adventure where fate is decided by the roll of actual 20-sided dice. In this award-winning improvised fantasy campaign, The Bearded Company will tell you a tale you won't soon forget. Each show will be an epic story in the lives of legendary adventurers. Dragons will be slain, dungeons will be explored and, nerd or not, there’s something for everyone.
Featuring:
Allen Voigt (Game Master)
Maria Bartholdi
MJ Matheson
Tyler Mills
Joe Rapp
Anna Tobin
Lucas Vonasek
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Bluesky
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.
Swords & Sorcery: The Improvised Fantasy Campaign
Sharpen your sword, brandish your wits, and step with us into a realm of fantasy and adventure where fate is decided by the roll of actual 20-sided dice. In this award-winning improvised fantasy campaign, The Bearded Company will tell you a tale you won't soon forget. Each show will be an epic story in the lives of legendary adventurers. Dragons will be slain, dungeons will be explored and, nerd or not, there’s something for everyone.
Featuring:
Allen Voigt (Game Master)
Maria Bartholdi
MJ Matheson
Tyler Mills
Joe Rapp
Anna Tobin
Lucas Vonasek
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Bluesky
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.
Adorable
True Stories. Pretend People. Real Awkward. Adorable is a Twin Cities-based improv duo, featuring veteran performers Butch Roy and Jen Scott. Formed in 2008, Adorable digs into focus on grounded relationships and the funny: slow burning, often ridiculous, sometimes sweet.
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Jen Scott Bluesky
Butch Roy Bluesky
Tickets are $10. 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.
Lucy London sings Joni Mitchell & other sweet songs
Lucy London is a Minneapolis-based touring musician, singer-songwriter, composer, and yodeling opera singer. She just returned from a sixth month solo tour around the US, and is excited to be back in Minneapolis for this special performance. For a long time Lucy has been toying with the idea of a concert of just Joni—this May, she's undertaking it. Though Joni's voice is irreplicable, her songs deserve to be honored and sung. Come sing along to your favorite Joni songs on May 18th at Bryant Lake Bowl!
"The only person I know who can sing Joni Mitchell almost as well as Joni Mitchell" --Liv LaFluv
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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.
Mixtape: ADRIFT - True stories of being lost in the sauce
Mixtape asks you to relish in five true stories told by some of the best storytellers these fine cities have to offer. It is an intimate collection of humorous to harrowing stories of folks who are looking for their way, delving for the answers and seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and this wild and weird world we all stumble through. Enjoy these stories along with Wayward's house band, Pity Party, live painting and incredible food and drinks at the iconic Bryant Lake Bowl.
This evening will take you on a ride with laughs, drinks, food, music and all the feels as we settle in together and build community, one story at a time.
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.
The Residency at BLB feat. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
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!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeef are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
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.
Mixtape: ADRIFT - True stories of being lost in the sauce
Mixtape asks you to relish in five true stories told by some of the best storytellers these fine cities have to offer. It is an intimate collection of humorous to harrowing stories of folks who are looking for their way, delving for the answers and seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and this wild and weird world we all stumble through. Enjoy these stories along with Wayward's house band, Pity Party, live painting and incredible food and drinks at the iconic Bryant Lake Bowl.
This evening will take you on a ride with laughs, drinks, food, music and all the feels as we settle in together and build community, one story at a time.
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.
Mixtape: ADRIFT - True stories of being lost in the sauce
Mixtape asks you to relish in five true stories told by some of the best storytellers these fine cities have to offer. It is an intimate collection of humorous to harrowing stories of folks who are looking for their way, delving for the answers and seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and this wild and weird world we all stumble through. Enjoy these stories along with Wayward's house band, Pity Party, live painting and incredible food and drinks at the iconic Bryant Lake Bowl.
This evening will take you on a ride with laughs, drinks, food, music and all the feels as we settle in together and build community, one story at a time.
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.
Purgatory Fest
People say that art is subjective: not here! At Purgatory Fest, audience members will vote on whether the films screened will party with the angels in Heaven, or go dance with the Devil in Hell. Two winners will be crowned God's Most Special Boy, or Satan's Most Special Sinner, alongside other, totally not subjective superlatives! Come join us for one Hell of a party!
Tickets are $10 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.
Buffalo Show
Buffalo enjoys a good Spring. Join us!
Micah Nickey, Lakota Singer
Colleen Casey, Dakota Poet
Amanda Young, Dakota Singer
Jothsna Harris with Change Narrative featuring Kimimila Decory
Al Gross, Ojibwe Storyteller
Twin Cities Backup Singers
and of course Buffalo Weavers, American Indian Blues!
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.
Mother's Day Comedy & Music Show!
Looking for the ultimate Mother's Day treat? Look no further! Our Mother's Day Comedy & Music Show is the perfect way to show Mom how much you appreciate her. We've gathered some of the funniest comedians around to share their funniest stories and to top it off, an incredible bluegrass musical performance will fill the air with joy and celebration. Give Mom the gift of a memorable and fun-filled afternoon – she deserves it! Headlined by Miss Shannan Paul! Featuring David Harris, Trish Cook, Bailey Murphy and Sarah McPeck. Music from The Last Pickd String Band Duo.
Miss Shannan Paul is a comedian, speaker, radio host, benefit auctioneer, and accessibility advocate. She’s appeared on Nick Mom’s Night Out, Laughs TV, and co-hosts on MyTalk 107.1. A board member for the Pacer Center and City of Crystal commissioner, she blends humor and heart to inspire every audience.
The Last Pickd String Band Duo showcases tasteful blends of Americana and Bluegrass. Come see the full 6-piece band at lastpickd.com!
Sarah McPeck is an out and proud lesbian comedian who loves all things Minnesota. Sarah is a writer, producer and improv actor who encourages the audience to join her in laughing life's curve balls. Sarah has produced many long running comedy and sketch shows and produced the documentary, Project Q. She loves teaching improv and owns her own training & development company, Marigold Cowgirl.
Minneapolis-based comedian and raconteur Trish Cook (Anishinaabe) highlights the nuances of life with a well-balanced side of Indigenous humor. She experiences firsthand that laughter is medicine, especially in our darkest times.
David Harris is an Emmy Award-winning comedian and actor who has been entertaining audiences for over 30 years. He’s performed at top clubs, theaters, colleges, and corporate events across the U.S. and Canada, and has worked with acclaimed comedians like Louie Anderson, Beth Stelling, Amir K, and more. David’s 2021 special on Dry Bar Comedy has racked up 230,000 views, and he’s performed at several comedy festivals nationwide including 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival, the Fargo Comedy Festival, and the Colorado Springs Comedy Festival. David is loved by audiences far and wide for his self-deprecating, painfully relatable takes on family, relationships, and the inescapable anxieties that come with living in today’s world.
Bailey Murphy is a comedian, writer, producer and director. When she’s not making jokes she’s probably forcing you to listen to Irish history or watching cult documentaries. What’s her favorite joke you ask? America.
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 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.
Babe Channel Original Movie (BCOM)
Zedus Lapedis! Getcha head in the game! DCOMs are out, BCOMs are in. Babe Channel Original Movies feature all the wacky, ridiculous, and endearing tropes of your favorite Disney Channel Original Movies - all improvised on the spot! Come for the mystical puberty predicaments, teen hero stories, and holiday-themed adventures. Stay for the inevitable discovery of true love, friendship, and belonging.
We also have amazing improv openers to kick off our show each night:
May 8th: Divine Comedy
May 9th: jorts!
May 10th: Your Coworker’s Improv Show
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.
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.
The Residency at BLB feat. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
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!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeef are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
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.
Babe Channel Original Movie (BCOM)
Zedus Lapedis! Getcha head in the game! DCOMs are out, BCOMs are in. Babe Channel Original Movies feature all the wacky, ridiculous, and endearing tropes of your favorite Disney Channel Original Movies - all improvised on the spot! Come for the mystical puberty predicaments, teen hero stories, and holiday-themed adventures. Stay for the inevitable discovery of true love, friendship, and belonging.
We also have amazing improv openers to kick off our show each night:
May 8th: Divine Comedy
May 9th: jorts!
May 10th: Your Coworker’s Improv Show
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.
Babe Channel Original Movie (BCOM)
Zedus Lapedis! Getcha head in the game! DCOMs are out, BCOMs are in. Babe Channel Original Movies feature all the wacky, ridiculous, and endearing tropes of your favorite Disney Channel Original Movies - all improvised on the spot! Come for the mystical puberty predicaments, teen hero stories, and holiday-themed adventures. Stay for the inevitable discovery of true love, friendship, and belonging.
We also have amazing improv openers to kick off our show each night:
May 8th: Divine Comedy
May 9th: jorts!
May 10th: Your Coworker’s Improv Show
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.
Insurgent Transmissions: 3CM LESS
MAY FILM: 3CM LESS (62m)
Raeda Taha, is angry with her father, not because in 1972 he hijacked a plan, but because he died in the process. Samia and Surida, are proud of the years their mother, Hajar, spent fighting the Israeli occupation, but know that her resistance put a strain on their family. Partly video diary, 3CM LESS looks at the effect of political struggles on families. Nominated for: IDFA International competition, Yamagata International competition, FID Marseille, and many others.
ABOUT INSURGENT TRANSMISSIONS
Insurgent Transmissions is a film series highlighting the varied Palestinian experience. Made by contemporary Palestinian makers, the films depict the many ways that Palestinians resist occupation in their daily lives and filmmaking practices. Beginning with Annemarie Jacir’s touching family drama, Wajib, the programming will unfold as a series of transmissions: Jacir chooses the second film, and each subsequent filmmaker will select the next film in the series. The films in Insurgent Transmissions highlight the works of contemporary Palestinian filmmakers, amplifying their voices through their films and the films they see as most urgent in this moment of cultural erasure and genocide.
This monthly series is presented by Mizna monthly at Bryant Lake Bowl. Ticket fees go towards supporting the featured Palestinian filmmakers. Online tickets are $10, tickets at the door are sliding scale $5–15. Additional opportunities to support urgent grassroots fundraisers in Gaza will be available at the screening.
ACCESSIBILITY
To make these events accessible, masks are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Unfortunately we cannot require masks because Bryant Lake Bowl serves food and drinks inside the screening space. Films will be in Arabic with English subtitles.
More about Insurgent Transmissions
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $5 - $15 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.
Holidating: Mother's Day
An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday!
My mama said you can't hurry love, but we only have 75 minutes! Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round. Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love featuring that month's holiday, Mother's Day.
Grab your tissues and your laugh buckets, holiday lovers!
Produced By: Sarah Arnold-Simondet & Philip Simondet
Music Director: Daniel Goldschmidt
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.