April Under the Umbrella

3/30/2018

Happy Friday! We've been so busy creating characters, building worlds, and exploring poison words for the upcoming WOLF SONG Workshop Presentation that we haven't had a chance to write a blog post in the few weeks! Don't worry, we'll let you in on some behind the scenes secrets before the work-in-progress showings on April 23 & 24 (mark your calendar! UPDATE: Tickets on sale now!), but for now... we're taking a moment to look forward!

After this weirdly-weathered March, you might need some fun/weird/wonderful things to do to get your spring sprung. Here's a roundup of awesome art that involves Savage Umbrella company members this April:

HUGE IMPROV THEATER'S
OFF BOOK

Half-scripted, full speed ahead. It is every actor’s nightmare: getting thrown on stage to perform a play you’ve never read. That’s also the premise of Off Book. HUGE Improv Theater has an actor memorize a script, then send them on stage with an improviser who has no idea what’s going on. Watch Nissa Nordland make the magic happen:

March 31, 2018 at 8:00pm
HUGE Improv Theater, Uptown Minneapolis
$10 in advance, $12 at the door | Tickets

ILLUSION THEATER'S
PINK UNICORN

In this award-winning solo piece, Ivey Award-winning Kate Guentzel plays Trisha, a Christian widow, who must choose sides in her conservative Texas town after her teenage child identifies as "gender queer" and starts a chapter of the Gay Straight Alliance at the local high school. This is the story of this Mom standing up and becoming an advocate for her child against the Church, the School, her own Mother, and all kinds of hate speech. Our own Foster Johns is the dialect coach for the show!

April 5 - 21, 2018
Illusion Theater, Downtown Minneapolis
$20 - $35 | Tickets
$15 preview performance: April 5, 2018

Brave New Workshop'S
The (Almost) Complete and (Mostly) Accurate History of Alcohol

Brave New Workshop alumni Josh Carson and Andy Rocco Kraft, creators of the (smash) comedy hits “The Wright Stuff, or You’ll Believe They Can Fly,” “A Very Die Hard Christmas” and “Our American Assassin or You Can’t Handle the Booth” are (entirely) thrilled to bring you their next production: “The (Almost) Complete and (Mostly) Accurate History of Alcohol,” a comedic tour-de-force through society’s fascination with alcohol from ancient Greece, to prohibition, to your uncle at Thanksgiving. Allison Witham and Leslie Vincent will delight you!

April 6 - 28, 2018 (Fridays & Saturdays)
Brave New Workshop ETC Theatre, Downtown Minneapolis
$20 | Tickets

RAW SUGAR THEATRE's
WTF Comedy Festival

Raw Sugar Theatre and Theatre Unbound present WTF: The Women/Trans/Femme Playwriting Festival. Company Member Antonia Perez will perform in ACE: the story of a young asexual finding her way in a world of middle school crushes, make-out sessions, and sex on TV, with the help of her ace super powers and one confused clone. Also there's music!

April 7 - 15, 2018
Crane Theater, Northeast Minneapolis
$15 for a single show, $25 for two shows, $30 for all three shows. | Tickets

FORTUNE'S FOOL THEATRE'S
THE SKRIKER

Fortune's Fool Theatre will produce the regional premiere of Caryl Churchill's masterpiece THE SKRIKER. This 1994 play, produced professionally only twice in North America, will feature immersive staging, a cast of 17, and original music by Twin Cities composer (and friend of SU!) Keith Hovis. See Nissa Nordland as "The Hag / Nellie Long Arms":

April 7 - 22, 2018
Crane Theater, Northeast Minneapolis
$18 - $20 | Tickets
Pay as Able performance: April 12, 2018

Photo by Phen Grant

CABERNET CABARET:
EMILY IN THE SPRINGTIME

Emily Dussault is back at Troubadour for a night of songs and stories. Come ready for some pop, some soul, some Judy, some Fiona, some songs that will make you feel alive again after a long winter. Accompanied by the lovely KT Thompson on keys!

(ICYMI: Emily & Leslie Vincent recently released a music video for The Champagne Drops ... check it out!)

April 9, 2018 at 7:30 PM
Troubadour Wine Bar, Uptown Minneapolis
No cover; just wine. | Facebook event

HUGE IMPROV THEATER'S
RATED G

Rated G is an improvised family-friendly musical romp in the style of all the fairytale classics you grew up with! You can catch company member Mark Sweeney in the following upcoming performances:

April 21 & 28, 2018 at 6:30 PM
HUGE Improv Theater, Uptown Minneapolis
$5 - $8 | Tickets

Public Transformation
Gallery Exhibition

Public Transformation, is a cross-county documentary art project highlighting how rural-based artists and arts organizations make their communities a more vibrant, healthy, connected place to live. This exhibition will feature images and objects from the Public Transformation journey, and work from it’s mobile artists-in-residence, alongside talks and workshops with participants and community partners. If you're around Des Moines, Iowa in the next month, you can see Hannah K. Holman's work on display! (You can also find her traveling all around the state during April with The Minnesota Theater Alliance.)

March 30 - May 4, 2018
Rush Hall at Wilkins, Des Moines, Iowa
Free | More Info

See you under the umbrella!