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January 21 - 22

The following format is followed for brevity:

title; Playwright
brief description
COMPANY NAME; (genre)

time; location CODE; box office number; price range; ASL(when applicable)

January 21 -
Brouhaha Comedy Festival
A festival of new comic theater by members of the Twin Cities performance community, one of the most vibrant in America. Warm your hearts, lift your spirits and have a bellyful of laughs at the coldest time of year. This week-long event includes new short plays, improvised comic theater, new clown theater and classic comedy plays. Featured artists include Sarah Agnew & Jim Lichtscheidl, Genevieve Bennett, David Hanbury, Joanna Harmon & Ally Carey, The New Theater Group, Kimberly Richardson & Sara Richardson and more.
The Southern Theater, (comedy)
6pm, 7:30pm & 9pm; SOT; 612-340-1725; $15-$16
 
All Shook Up- by Joe DiPietro
ALL SHOOK UP is an irresistible musical comedy-love story about a small town girl who dreams of hitting the open road, and the mysterious guitar-playing stranger who brings romance and rock'n'roll into her life. Written in the same style as Broadway's Mamma Mia, created around the popular hit songs of ABBA, ALL SHOOK UP is a new romantic comedy tailored to the classic hits of Elvis Presley. See the song list.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $44-$77
 
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Two young, star-struck lovers who fall in love, but fate and family backgrounds create enough challenge for them to doubt their love. Through a major misunderstanding and poor timing, the two lovers' tale ends in tragedy, for them and their families.
The Guthrie Theater (drama)
7:30 pm; GUT; 612-225-6238; $15 - $40
 
January 21 - 22
Ice Fish'n Op'ner: Part I
It’s the first official day of ice fishing on Lake Charlie. The co-owner of the bait shop was found dead in the walk-in freezer holding a 30-pound Northern. A snowmobiler, known as “Yeti”, is lookin’ for open water to drive his snowmobile across. Ice houses start on fire and begin falling, one by one, into the lake. A bait shop regular gets caught, by his wife, making up a fish story and has to tell her that she’s “the best catch of his life”. Just your average first day of ice fishin’ at the bait shop on Lake Charlie.
Mounds Theatre (musical/mystery)
7:30 pm; MTB; 651-772-2253; $29.70 - $49.50
 
Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczk
In the Woolworth's store in McCarthy, Texas, the Disciples of James Dean are gathering for their 20th reunion. They were teenagers when movie star Dean filmed Giant in a nearby town, and their memories intermingle with flashbacks to that eventful time. This year, though, their reunion attracts a mystery guest.
Theatre in the Round Players (drama)
8:00 pm; TRP; 612-333-3010; $15-$22
 
The Odyssey by William Randall Beard
Legendary warrior Odysseus fights tides, beasts, and his own arrogance - often with no weapon except his passion. But it's not just his adventure: his wife fights the urge to give upon the world and his teenage son wrestles with the journey to adulthood. Reunited, they discover they can claim new lives, despite the sometime wicked blows of the gods.
Park Square Theatre (drama)
8:00 pm; SPT; 651-291-7005; $12.50 - $32
 
Always a Mystery
You could be solving a mystery while you eat your dinner. This is a series of ongoing dinner theatres in which the audience gets a chance to solve the mystery as the action takes place around your dining area. There are several titles to choose from. Just click here to see them.
The Mystery Cafe (comedy/drama)
7:30 pm; MYS; 763-566-2583; $20 - $38.34
 
Jeeves in Bloom by Margaret Raether
Jeeves In Bloom follows the uproarious mishaps and misadventures of the loveable, loopy Bertie Wooster, who manages time and again to put himself in socially precarious situations, only to be rescued by his brainy butler, Jeeves. Now Bertie finds himself dodging romantic entanglements with a starry-eyed young woman, eluding an enraged chef wielding a meat cleaver, and begrudgingly helping his Aunt Dahlia to commit a burglary. Thank heaven Jeeves is there to save the day.
Old Log Theater (comedy)
8:00 pm; OLT; 952-474-5951; $20 - $32
 
WTF by Katie Ka Vang
How many generations does it take before an attitude in shifted? How do we build a different life when the blueprint we have is outdated? Can we rearrange the same words and give them different meanings? What does revouluion look like? WTF looks at the complexities of being Hmong American in 2010 through True and Sunday, two friends whose lives intertwine, sometimes beyond words.
Theater Mu (drama)
8:00 pm; MIX; 651-644-8645; $20 - $34
 
Julius by Design by Kara Lee Corthron
Laurel and Josephine survived the murder of their teenage son by focusing on the small things in life: morning coffee, a crossword puzzle, their weekend plans. Secretly, though, Josephine has been writing letters to his killer. A story about loss, forgiveness, and courage, Julius by Design testifies to the power of hope in the wake of tragedy.
The Penumbra Theatre Company (drama)
8:00 pm; HQB; 651-224-3180; $17 - $25
 
A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol
It's Christmas Eve in Bunyan Bay, Minnesota and cantankerous bar owner Gunner Johnson gets in an argument with his wife, Clara, tells her he's skipping Christmas, he storms out of the bar, goes snowmobiling across the lake, falls through the ice, and goes into a coma. He comes back in his dream where he's visited by folk legend, Sven Yorgensen, who plays the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future. Sven takes Gunner (Scrooge) on a journey similar to that in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" only very different. Will Gunner come out of his coma and find redemption with Clara at The Bunyan? Find out.
Hennepin Theatre Trust (musical)
8:00 pm; BCT; 612-373-5665; $23.50 - $26.50
 
January 22 -
Brouhaha Comedy Festival
A festival of new comic theater by members of the Twin Cities performance community, one of the most vibrant in America. Warm your hearts, lift your spirits and have a bellyful of laughs at the coldest time of year. This week-long event includes new short plays, improvised comic theater, new clown theater and classic comedy plays. Featured artists include Sarah Agnew & Jim Lichtscheidl, Genevieve Bennett, David Hanbury, Joanna Harmon & Ally Carey, The New Theater Group, Kimberly Richardson & Sara Richardson and more.
The Southern Theater, (comedy)
3pm, 4:30pm, 6pm & 7:30pm, 9pm; SOT; 612-340-1725; $15-$16
 
All Shook Up- by Joe DiPietro
ALL SHOOK UP is an irresistible musical comedy-love story about a small town girl who dreams of hitting the open road, and the mysterious guitar-playing stranger who brings romance and rock'n'roll into her life. Written in the same style as Broadway's Mamma Mia, created around the popular hit songs of ABBA, ALL SHOOK UP is a new romantic comedy tailored to the classic hits of Elvis Presley. See the song list.
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (musical)
11 and 6:00 pm; CDT; 952-934-1525; $44-$77
 
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Two young, star-struck lovers who fall in love, but fate and family backgrounds create enough challenge for them to doubt their love. Through a major misunderstanding and poor timing, the two lovers' tale ends in tragedy, for them and their families.
The Guthrie Theater (drama)
1:00 and 7:30 pm; GUT; 612-225-6238; $15 - $40
 

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