(May. 10 1:01 PM) - Minnesota-based chamber group Accordo is described as "some of the very best instrumentalists in the country, eager to share their love of classical and contemporary chamber music." This final of three concerts in their 2012 Winter/Spring Season will be performed at National Historic Landmark Christ Church Lutheran, one of the Twin Cities' great architectural treasures designed by the esteemed architect Eliel Saarinen and his son Eero Saarinen.

(May. 8 12:30 AM) - Ordway Center for the Performing Arts presents the first national tour of the new musical “The Addams Family,” based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. “The Addams Family” runs from tonight, May 8 through May 20 as a part of the Ordway’s 2011-2012 Theater Season.

(May. 7 9:07 PM) - On June 29th, 2012 Theatre Pro Rata will open 44 Plays for 44 Presidentsat Calvary Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, MN as part of the national Plays for Presidents 2012 Festival.

(May. 7 1:54 PM) - Park Square Theatre is nearing the finish line on its goal to build a second stage in the Hamm Building in Saint Paul. The Next Stage Campaign, a comprehensive effort to transform Park Square, will enhance the theatre's ability to serve the community by investing in its facility, capitalizing its operations with working capital and artistic innovation funds, and doubling its artistic output.

(May. 5 12:30 AM) - Dog in the Door Theater for Kids (DITD) has announced a special workshop day event to celebrate its two-year anniversary of "lively stage fun for children." Students, ages 3-12, are invited for one of two "Puppet Extravaganza" workshops today, May 5.

(May. 2 6:25 PM) - The Guthrie's 2012-13 season features three major Tony Award nominees, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris and Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz, which were both nominated for Best Play. The Guthrie’s upcoming season also features Roger Rees as director of Crispin Whittell’s new play The Primrose Path. Rees has been nominated for a 2012 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for his work on Peter and the Starcatcher.

(Apr. 28 11:06 AM) - Dog in the Door Theater for Kids (DITD) has announced a special workshop day event to celebrate its two-year anniversary of "lively stage fun for children." Students, ages 3-12, are invited for one of two "Puppet Extravaganza" workshops on Saturday, May 5.

(Apr. 27 12:30 AM) - Now in its ninth year, APASSIONATA Europe’s most successful live entertainment show, featuring more than 40 horses and seen by more than five million fans in over forty cities, will make its North American debut today, April 27, 2012, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The new show entitled “The Beginning” will kick off an eighteen month, sixty-six city arena North American tour.

(Apr. 26 6:27 PM) - SteppingStone Theatre brings the intense sounds and choreographed rhythms of Mu Daiko's Taiko Drumming to the stage, April 27 through May 12, 2012.

(Apr. 26 1:05 PM) - The Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for the sparkling new musical Roman Holiday. This song-filled delight—based on the iconic 1953 Paramount Pictures film starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck—includes timeless music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Paul Blake. The production will play from June 9 – August 19 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage and features soul-stirring Porter standards like “Easy to Love,” “Just One of Those Things” and “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye.” Guthrie Associate Artistic Director John Miller-Stephany (1776, God of Carnage and A Streetcar Named Desire) will direct.

(Apr. 25 12:30 AM) - The 2012-13 season at Stages Theatre Company (STC) features eight productions for children and young adults, with the selected titles evoking imagination and inspiration.

(Apr. 24 10:16 AM) - Today, more than 370 Saint Paul student artists, vocalists and instrumentalists will showcase their talents in the 21st Annual Honors Concert and Performance Art Exhibition, presented by Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) and Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, with additional support from the College of Visual Arts.

(Apr. 24 8:52 AM) - History Theatre has announced its 35th season, which will kick-off with the Minnesota premiere of the Broadway hit Lombardi by Eric Simonson. The show will feature Jim Detmar as Vince Lombardi and Norah Long as Marie Lombardi, and promises to be a funny and passionate look at an American icon. History Theatre will celebrate the holiday season with the return of Christmas of Swing featuring the talents of Ruthie Baker, Patty Nieman, and Stacy Lindell as Patty, LaVerne, and Maxine – The Andrews Sisters.

(Apr. 22 12:30 AM) - This festival showcase, free to the public, will provide everyone with an opportunity to hear classic concert band and jazz music performed by several of the top volunteer-based community bands in the Twin Cities area. The event will feature: St. Louis Park Community Band, Seward Concert Band, Brio Brass, Centennial Community Band, Fridley City Band, Century College Concert Band, and the Lex-Ham Community Band.

(Apr. 21 11:04 AM) - History Theatre returns to the crime-ridden streets of St. Paul in the early 1930s with the return of a play written by David Hawley with music and lyrics by Drew Jansen, Capital Crimes: The St. Paul Gangster Musical. The show opens tonight and runs through May 20. See photos from the production below!

(Apr. 20 9:32 PM) - Now in its ninth year, APASSIONATA Europe’s most successful live entertainment show, featuring more than 40 horses and seen by more than five million fans in over forty cities, will make its North American debut on April 27, 2012, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The new show entitled “The Beginning” will kick off an eighteen month, sixty-six city arena North American tour.

(Apr. 20 12:30 AM) - Park Square Theatre presents John Patrick Shanley’s Tony-award-winning play, Doubt, A Parable, April 20-May 13. The play, which also won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, confronts the issues of hierarchical power, control, uncertainties and doubt. Set in a Catholic school in the Bronx in the 1960s, Doubt tells the story of an old-school, no-nonsense nun who considers charging a charismatic young priest with her unproven allegations. The drama takes place in a school much like the one playwright Shanley attended.

(Apr. 20 12:30 AM) - A new generation of American actors showcases its talents as the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program Class of 2012 presents O Brave New World, a pair of new plays, in the Dowling Studio, April 20 –29.