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2018-19 Performance Season

Peter and the Starcatcher
Where: Andreas Theatre, Earley Center for the Performing Arts, MSU, Mankato, Mankato
When: January 31-February 3 & February 6-10, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 507-389-6661.
Synopsis: A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands.

Kiss Me, Kate
Where: Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato
When: February 1-3 & 8-9, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online.

Macbeth
Where: Ted Paul Theatre, Earley Center for the Performing Arts, MSU, Mankato, Mankato
When: February 14-16 & 21-24, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 507-389-6661.
Synopsis: A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia.

Telemachy
Where: Anderson Theater, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter
When: February 21-24, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 507-933-7590.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)
Where: Lincoln Community Center, Mankato
When: March 14-16 & 21-23, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online.
Synopsis: This production parodies the plays of William Shakespeare with all of them being performed in comically shortened or merged form by only three actors. This is a comical romp with audience participation.

Mothers and Sons
Where: Andreas Theatre, Earley Center for the Performing Arts, MSU, Mankato, Mankato
When: March 27-30, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 507-389-6661.
Synopsis: Mother and Sons portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son’s partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.

Letters to Anne of Green Gables
Where: Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato
When: April 5-7 & 12-13, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Where: Ted Paul Theatre, Earley Center for the Performing Arts, MSU, Mankato, Mankato
When: April 11-13 & 18-20, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 507-389-6661.
Synopsis: The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in 15th-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer, observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful gypsy, Esmeralda.

Brainpeople
Where: Andreas Theatre, Earley Center for the Performing Arts, MSU, Mankato, Mankato
When: April 24-27, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 507-389-6661.
Synopsis: A wealthy woman invites two strangers to join her in a strange feast commemorating the death of her parents. Mayannah has done this every year but her dark purpose remains unclear. All that will change tonight when two damaged souls find their way to her table. Taking place in a not-so-distant future, the sounds of a war-torn Los Angeles fill the air.

Lysistrata
Where: Linnaeus Arboretum, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter
When: May 16-19, 2019
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online or by calling 507-933-7590.