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| The Festival of Nations is presented May 2-4 at the RiverCentre, 175 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul. The event features 90 ethnic groups presenting food, folk dancing, cultural exhibits, folk art demonstrations and a shopping bazaar. Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for youth ages 5-16. Hours are 4-10 p.m., Friday, May 2, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday, May 3, and 10 a.m.--6 p.m., Sunday, May 4. For more information, call 651-647-0191, ext. 306, or visit www.festivalof nations. com. |
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May 2008 Events
Park Square Theatre
"Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill" is presented through May 4. The stage is set in a seedy bar in South Philadelphia where legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday gives one of her last performances before her death in 1959. While indulging her talent as well as her addictions, she recalls her beginnings scrubbing steps in Baltimore through her rise to fame. The performance features more than a dozen songs that made Lady Day an American icon, including "God Bless the Child," "Strange Fruit," "Where Our Love Has Gone," and "Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do."
"Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure" is presented May 20-June 22. Sherlock Holmes finds himself undone by the photograph of a beautiful opera diva and walks right into a trap set by his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" is presented at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 10. This performance is centered on the diary of Anne Frank and how it documents the lives of eight Jews hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam over a two-year period.
Tickets for all performances are $15-$36 and can be purchased by calling 651-291-7005 or visiting www.parksquaretheatre.org. The theater is located in the Historic Hamm Building at 20 W. 7th Place, St. Paul.
History Theatre
"These Shining Lives" is presented May 8-June 1. This play is about a group of women known as the Radium Girls, who were employed in 1917 to paint watch faces. Unbeknownst to these workers, the glow-in-the-dark paint they used daily was highly radioactive and would eventually kill them. Tickets can be ordered by calling 651-292-4323 or at www.historytheatre.com. The History Theatre is located at 30 E. 10th St., St. Paul.
Ordway Center
"Blues in the Night" is presented through May 18. This musical revue uses a compilation of 26 blues songs to tell the story of the relationship of three women with "one snake of a man." Tickets are $40.50-$50.50 and can be ordered by calling the Ordway Box Office at 651-224-4222 or at www.ordway.org. The theater is located at 345 Washington St., St. Paul.
Events at the X
Rush will present its Snakes and Arrows tour at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 22. Tickets are $47.75-$89.75 and are available at the Xcel Energy Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, charge-by-phone at 651-989-5151 and www.ticketmaster.com.
Science Museum of Minnesota
"Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" continues through May 4. This exhibit explores Nazi Germany’s campaign to "cleanse" German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation’s "health." It features objects, photographs, documents and historic film footage from European and American collections, from 1933 to 1945.
The exhibit is organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is presented locally in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Tickets are $17.50 for adults and $13 for children and seniors, or $22 and $16.50 respectively with admission to the Omnitheatre. For more information, call 651-221-9426. The Science Museum of Minnesota is located at 120 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul.
Lowry Theatre
"Song of Singapore" is presented through August 31 at the Lowry Theatre in downtown St. Paul. This interactive performance explores the crazy antics of a British jazz club owner, a would-be baseball player from Brooklyn, an amnesic saloon singer, a "Dragon Lady," a broke gambler, and a corrupt police officer as they try to escape the island in 1941 because of the looming threat of war. All the while, a club patron’s mysterious death leaves many questions unanswered and results in comical situations. Tickets are $48-$64, which includes dinner. To purchase, call Ticketmaster 612-673-0404 or visit Ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit www.actorstheaterof minnesota. org.
"We Gotta Bingo" is presented at 7:30 p.m., most Thursdays through Saturdays at the Lowry Theatre at 16 W. Fifth St. in downtown St. Paul. This interactive performance allows participants to spend a crazy night at a church lasagna dinner held in a German beer hall. Tickets are $54.50-$69.50. To order or for more information, call 651-227-2464 or visit www.actorstheaterof minnesota.org.
Minnesota History Center
"MN150 Changing Minnesota" celebrates 150 years of Minnesota statehood by exploring changes that have shaken up Minnesota to those that have rocked the world. One hundred fifty people, places and things are presented and interpreted in the exhibit.
"The Enemy Within," a new exhibit that explores security threats throughout our nation’s history, is showing through May 4. The traveling exhibition from the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., provides an unprecedented look into terror in America from 1776 to the present day. The exhibition explores stories of domestic terrorists and foreign agents, militant radicals and saboteurs who have threatened America’s sense of security over the past 200 years. The exhibit features artifacts, replicas, historic photographs, film footage, interactive displays and video.
Tickets to the History Center are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and college students, and $4 for children ages 6-17. For more information, call 651-296-6126 or visit www.mnhs.org/historycenter. The History Center is located at 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul.
Minnesota Children’s Museum
"Run! Jump! Fly! Adventures in Action" is presented through September 14. This new exhibit helps children explore activities such as kung fu, surfing, snowboarding, yoga and horizontal climbing in a non-competitive environment.
"Once Upon a Time, Exploring the World of Fairy Tales" is presented May 17-September 1. This hands-on exhibit is designed for children ages 3 to 10 and brings to life seven favorite fairy tales from around the world.
The Minnesota Children’s Museum is located at 10 W. Seventh St., St. Paul. Admission is $7.95. For more information, call 651-225-6000.
Teatro del Pueblo
Teatro del Puelbo is presenting "Real Women Have Curves" May 9-29 at the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Community Center, 179 E. Robie St., St. Paul. This all female performance follows a young woman learning how to cope with her body image in a society fascinated with thin bodies. Young Anna, a first-generation Mexican- American, struggles to find balance between her mainstream ambitions and her more traditional cultural heritage and upbringing. Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for students and senior citizens. For more information, call 651-224-8806.
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| Upright Egg Theatre Company will present an original work, “The Dreaming Project,” April 11 through 27 at the Tilsner Artist’s Cooperative, 300 Broadway Ave., Studio 306, St. Paul. “The Dreaming Project” explores the question of what it means to be awake through the lens of the dreamer. Tickets are $5-$15. For more information, call 651-292-0179. |
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April 2008 Events
Park Square Theatre
“Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill” is presented April 11 through May 4. The stage is set in a seedy bar in South Philadelphia where legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday gives one of her last performances before her death in 1959. While indulging her talent as well as her addictions, she recalls her beginnings scrubbing steps in Baltimore through her rise to fame. The performance features more than a dozen songs that made Lady Day an American icon, including “God Bless the Child,” “Strange Fruit,” “Where Our Love Has Gone,” and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do.” Tickets are $18-$36 and can be purchased by calling 651-291-7005 or visiting www.parksquaretheatre.org. The theater is located in the Historic Hamm Building at 20 W. 7th Place, St. Paul.
History Theatre
“The Lady With All The Answers” is presented April 3 through 20. This warm and engaging one-woman show depicts advice columnist Ann Landers as she copes with a problem that doesn’t have an easy solution. Tickets can be ordered by calling 651-292-4323 or at www.historytheatre.com. The History Theatre is located at 30 E. 10th St., St. Paul.
Ordway Center
“The Drowsy Chaperone” is presented through March 30. This musical comedy addresses the desire of so many to be entertained. Tickets are $44.50-$75.50.
“Blues in the Night” is presented through May 18. This musical revue uses a compilation of 26 blues songs to tell the story of the relationship of three women with “one snake of a man.” Tickets are $40.50-$50.50 and can be ordered by calling the Ordway Box Office at 651-224-4222 or at www.ordway.org. The theater is located at 345 Washington St., St. Paul.
Events at the X
Doodlebops Live! is presented at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m., Friday, April 4. Tickets are $16-$42.
Santana with special guest The Derek Trucks Band will perform at 7 p.m., Monday, April 21. Tickets are $47-$62.
Casting Crowns will perform at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 26. Tickets are $19-$75.
Tickets for all events are available at the Xcel Energy Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, charge-by-phone at 651-989-5151 and www.ticketmaster.com.
Science Museum of Minnesota
“Animation” continues through April 27. This exhibit explores animation from concept to finished product—from storyboarding, character design and drawing techniques, to movement, timing, filming and sound. Larger-than-life graphics of popular Cartoon Network characters provide a colorful backdrop to the exhibit, which also explores the history of animation and features a screening room and a cartoon museum.
“Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” continues through May 4. This exhibit explores Nazi Germany’s campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation’s “health.” It features objects, photographs, documents and historic film footage from European and American collections, from 1933 to 1945.
The exhibit is organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is presented locally in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Tickets are $17.50 for adults and $13 for children and seniors, or $22 and $16.50 respectively with admission to the Omnitheatre. For more information, call 651-221-9426. The Science Museum of Minnesota is located at 120 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul.
Omnitheatre
Omnifest 2008 continues through April 6. This year’s films are “Everest,” “Cowboys: Ride Around the World,” “Roar: Lions of the Kalahari,” “Indonesia: Dance of Life,” “Amazon,” and “The Alps.”
“The Alps” - This new film follows John Harlin as he climbs the Eiger in the Swiss Alps to come to terms with the loss of his father, who died on the mountain 40 years ago after his rope broke on an ascent up the peak’s 6,000-foot face. John Harlin was nine years old at the time of his father’s tragic death, which shattered the lives of his family. The film is featured through May. Tickets are $7.50 for adults and $6 for children and seniors. For more information, call 651-221-9426. The Omnitheatre is located at the Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul.
Lowry Theatre
“Song of Singapore” is presented through August 31 at the Lowry Theatre, located at 16 W. Fifth St., St. Paul. This interactive performance explores the crazy antics of a British jazz club owner, a would-be baseball player from Brooklyn, an amnesic saloon singer, a “Dragon Lady,” a broke gambler, and a corrupt police officer as they try to escape off the island from the threat of looming war in 1941. All the while, a club patron’s mysterious death leaves many questions unanswered and results in comical situations. Tickets are $48-$64, which includes dinner. To purchase, call Ticketmaster 612-673-0404 or visit Ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit www.actorstheaterof minnesota.org.
“We Gotta Bingo” is presented at 7:30 p.m., most Thursdays through Saturdays at the Lowry. This interactive performance allows participants to spend a crazy night at a church lasagna dinner held in a German beer hall. Tickets are $54.50-$69.50. To order or for more information, call 651-227-2464 or visit www.actorstheaterof minnesota.org.
Minnesota History Center
“MN150 Changing Minnesota” celebrates 150 years of Minnesota statehood by exploring changes that have shaken up Minnesota to those that have rocked the world. One hundred fifty people, places and things are presented and interpreted in the exhibit.
“The Enemy Within,” a new exhibit that explores security threats throughout our nation’s history, is showing through May 4. The traveling exhibition from the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., provides an unprecedented look into terror in America from 1776 to the present day. The exhibition explores stories of domestic terrorists and foreign agents, militant radicals and saboteurs, who have threatened America’s sense of security over the past 200 years. The exhibit features artifacts, replicas, historic photographs, film footage, interactive displays and video.
Tickets to the History Center are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and college students, and $4 for children ages 6 to 17. For more information, call 651-296-6126 or visit www.mnhs.org/historycenter.
The History Center is located at 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul.
Minnesota Children’s Museum
“Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?” is presented through April 27. This new exhibit leads visitors through three adventurous decades of the revolutionary children’s television series. Dozens of interactive components invite children to explore concepts about letters, words, numbers and issues of diversity.
“Run! Jump! Fly! Adventures in Action” is presented through September 14. This new exhibit helps children explore activities such as kung fu, surfing, snowboarding, yoga and horizontal climbing in a non-competitive environment.
The Minnesota Children’s Museum is located at 10 W. Seventh St., St. Paul. Admission is $7.95. For more information, call 651-225-6000.
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